Maui Business

Twenty researchers including Dr. Youping Deng with the University of Hawaiʻi John A. Burns School of Medicine, found beneficial effects of an insomnia drug on clinical outcomes in the management of COVID-19 patients.

The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act provides relief for small businesses that have trouble covering payroll and operating expenses because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

A new study by Brookings Institute ranks the metro area of Kahului-Wailuku-Lahaina on Maui at number two in the nation by share of jobs in industries at high risk from COVID-19.

Despite a reduction in the number of flights, Mokulele will not eliminate service to any of its airports.

The bipartisan $2 trillion CARES Act is the largest aid package in American history and was signed into law on Friday.

A new radio feature starts Monday featuring executives and doctors with Maui Health who will provide updates and answer questions related to the COVID-19 pandemic.  The feature runs daily at 7:19 a.m. on KPOA 93.5 FM, starting on Monday, March 30, 2020.

Maui had a total of 87 passengers arriving on the Valley Isle, including 49 crew members, 24 residents and 14 visitors, according to new numbers compiled by the Hawaiʻi Tourism Association.

Minit Medical Urgent Care is offering video visits, drive-up services and in-clinic visits for all urgent care needs at all three of its Maui locations in an effort to relieve stress on the hospital.

The meetings are being held to seek public input on the utility’s five proposed battery energy storage systems.

The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation has gifted $4 million in emergency grant funding, including $400,000 in Hawai‘i, to help stabilize nonprofits that are facing a myriad of challenges while continuing to provide vital services to those who are disproportionately impacted by the coronavirus crisis.

Maui had a total of 136 passengers arriving on the Valley Isle, including 81 crew members, 44 residents and 11 visitors, according to new numbers compiled by the Hawaiʻi Tourism Association. 

In response to the urgent need for personal protective equipment or PPEs, Bank of Hawaiʻi announced that the company will be donating more than 1,200 face shields and masks, as well as making a $100,000 contribution to the Healthcare Association of Hawaiʻi.

The automatic extension applies only to patients with 329 cards expiring in March and April of this year. (The order does not apply to out-of-state patients). Patients are not required to take any action to receive the extension.

Hawaiian Electric has received dozens of fraud reports from across its five-island service area since late last week, with “many more likely going unreported.” On Wednesday alone, there were 23 fraud reports received on Oʻahu by 1 p.m.

The Hawaiian Homes Commission approved an emergency postponement of mortgage payments for Department of Hawaiian Home Lands direct loans and loans assigned to DHHL during a special emergency meeting on Tuesday, March 24, 2020, as the State faces the COVID-19 pandemic.

The data shows there were 4,131 arrivals in the state on Tuesday, March 24.  The majority, 3,334 were to the island of Oʻahu. While neighbor island totals were not provided, the remaining arrivals within the state (outside of Oʻahu) totaled 797 passengers. 

Effective Monday, March 30, 2020, Maui County Federal Credit Union will have new hours to include the following: Kahului branch – closed; Wailuku and Lahaina branches – Monday to Thursday, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and Friday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Effective Wednesday, March 25, 2020, Hawaii State Federal Credit Union (Hawaii State FCU) will reserve the first hour of branch operations for seniors and those living with serious pre-existing conditions to protect this high-risk group from potential exposure to COVID-19.  

The first hour of each day, from Monday through Friday at Central Pacific Bank, is now designated as a time for kūpuna and those most at risk for COVID-19 to complete their banking. 

This wide-ranging legislation will inject $2 trillion into boosting funding to our medical system, providing economic support to workers, small businesses, and state and local governments that are bearing the brunt of the necessary but difficult measures being put in place to combat the coronavirus.