Hawaii HB817 aims to ease health care access for underserved residents by reducing administrative burdens for ambulatory health care facilities.

Hawaii HB817 addresses the state's significant health care provider shortage, particularly in rural areas and on the neighbor islands, by easing administrative burdens for organized ambulatory health care facilities. The bill allows providers from other areas and across multiple specialties to offer services to medically underserved residents. It eliminates the requirement for physicians at these facilities to have hospital privileges in the same location and removes the need for a written transfer agreement when transferring patients to a licensed hospital.

Hawaii HB817 aims to ease health care access for underserved residents by reducing administrative burdens for ambulatory health care facilities.

Hawaii HB817 addresses the state's significant health care provider shortage, particularly in rural areas and on the neighbor islands, by easing administrative burdens for organized ambulatory health care facilities. The bill allows providers from other areas and across multiple specialties to offer services to medically underserved residents. It eliminates the requirement for physicians at these facilities to have hospital privileges in the same location and removes the need for a written transfer agreement when transferring patients to a licensed hospital.