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Health Trends in Hawaii
The HMSA Foundation is pleased to share Health Trends in Hawaii, A Profile of the Health Care System. This handy reference contains the latest data available on health and health care in Hawaii.
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A Success Story
In 12 years of operations, the Mobile Care Health Project has provided $1.6 million in free dental services, including acute care, comprehensive services, prevention, education and advocacy to more than 18,500 patients.
The Mobile Care Health Project began in 1997 with the first fully-equipped Winnebago mobile unit serving West Hawaii (Ka’u to North Hawaii). A second unit began serving East Hawaii in 1999, and in 2000 a third mobile unit began service on Maui. Mobile Care has been the only dental provider for low-income and QUEST/Medicaid-insured adults and children for many areas on the neighbor islands.
One of the Mobile Care vans transferred to the Bay Clinic to provide services in the Ka’u District and later to expand to Hilo. The West Hawaii Community Health Center will open a stationary Pediatric Dental Clinic in Kealakekua, Kona and will assume ownership of the second Mobile Care van to provide services in Kailua-Kona. The Hamakua Health Center has a new mobile dental van to provide services in Honokaa and Kohala.
The Mobile Care Health Project is a program of the Office for Social Ministry of the Roman Catholic Church of Hawaii and St. Francis Health Care System. The HMSA Foundation has awarded a total of $399,000 to support the project.
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Next Deadline for Grant Proposals is April 1, 2010
Proposals postmarked by this deadline will be reviewed in March. Each year, the HMSA Foundation makes grants to improve health and health care in Hawai`i. Grantseeker Information
Hawai`i Covering Kids
Hawai`i Covering Kids is forging much of the systemic change necessary to identify and enroll Hawai`i's uninsured children. The HMSA Foundation made a grant to help evaluate the effectiveness of and improve this program. Active HMSA Foundation Grants |