#Kaiser Hawaii

Kaiser Permanente Hawaii – Maui’s largest OB-GYN department – yesterday announced the expansion of its maternity services across the Valley Isle.

Stafford and Ortiz will oversee activities under their respective roles at Kaiser Permanente Moanalua Medical Center, medical offices, and clinics across the state. 

Kaiser Permanente is the only Medicare health plan in Hawaiʻi and one of just 21 in the nation to receive 5 out of 5 stars this year from CMS, a federal agency and division of the US Department of Health and Human Services.

Maribel Avila-Kunkel is the new vice president of ambulatory care and clinical services at Kaiser Permanente Hawaiʻi.

Effective Jan. 1, 2020, Kaiser Permanent and HDS will provide preventive dental benefits as part of the base benefit in certain Kaiser Permanente Medicare Senior Advantage Plans (HMO) at no additional cost.

For the fourth straight year, Kaiser Permanente Hawaiʻi has received five out of five stars from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for its 2021 Medicare plan.

For outpatient clinics, only one essential caregiver may accompany a patient. All visitors to Kaiser Permanente facilities in Hawaiʻi will have their temperature checked as they enter the building. Anyone with cough, fever, or any other symptoms of illness will not be allowed to visit patients.

Kaiser Permanente Hawaiʻi’s Medicare plan performed in the top 10 nationally on several measures of quality care, according to the National Committee for Quality Assurance Quality Compass report.

Maui District health and PE resource teacher Michelle Baysa, is among a group of five teachers in Hawaiʻi who were honored as part of Kaiser Permanente’s Thriving Schools Honor Roll awards program.

Kaiser Permanente Hawaiʻi announced the recipients of $188,500 in community benefit grant funding.

Three new doctors recently joined Kaiser Permanenteʻs Maui locations. The new doctors include Zachary Thielen, who practices orthopaedics at the Wailuku Medical Office, Christopher Chung, a hospitalist at Maui Memorial Medical Center, and Robert Kawa, who joined the family medicine department at the Maui Lani Medical Office. Some of Kaiserʻs Oʻahu locations also gained three […]

YMCA Maui is the recipient of a $25,000 grant to implement the YMCA Diabetes Prevention Program, a program to prevent the onset of Type 2 diabetes.

Six doctors have joined Kaiser Permanente on Oʻahu, Maui, and Hawaiʻi Island–this includes three new physicians on Maui.

On Maui Jay Faris, MD, a board-certified family medicine doctor, joins Kaiser Permanente’s Maui Lani Medical Office.

More than 900 volunteers participated in Kaiser Permanente’s Annual Day of Service on Maui, held at the Maui Nui Botanical Gardens.

Kaiser Permanente Hawaii earned the highest rating of five out of five stars for its 2017-18 Medicare program by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

The list includes two Maui hires: Vona Diener, MD, who practices family medicine at Kaiser Permanente Maui Lani Medical Office; and John Meisel, MD.

Kaiser Hosts will discuss the future of Maui Memorial Medical Center and Kula Hospital as it prepares to take over management of the facilities on July 1.

A report which measures patient safety in hospitals has given Kaiser Permanente its fourth consecutive A in the Spring 2017 Hospital Safety Grade.

Waiheʻe Elementary School unveiled its new water bottle filling station, promoting the benefits of healthy hydration through the Hawaiʻi 5210 Initiative.