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Kaiser Foundation Health Plan has reached agreement with Maui Island Holdings, LLC to purchase the 6.28-acre site currently occupied by The Maui News, located adjacent to the Kaiser Permanente Wailuku Medical Office and northwest of Maui Memorial Medical Center (which is operated by Kaiser Foundation Hospitals subsidiary Maui Health).

Kaiser Permanente recently honored its Lahaina Clinic staff members with the 2024 David Lawrence Community Service Award, recognizing their dedication and service in the aftermath of the August 2023 Maui wildfires.

Maui Health Foundation’s Housing for Healthcare initiative is accepting interest from healthcare professionals for 31 transitional housing units in Kahului, including 16 brand new, 4-bedroom, single-family homes, and 15 accessory dwelling units (‘ohana units). Homes will be available for lease at below-market rates to healthcare professionals working in Maui County. Preference will be given to eligible healthcare workers displaced by the Maui wildfires.

Maui Public Art Corps recently announced a call for artist proposals to create visual, performance, or experiential public art installations inspired by a collection of audio-recorded stories of Lahaina.

Kaiser Permanente Hawai’i opened a new Mom and Newborn Center on Maui, the first of its kind on the Valley Isle. Located at Kaiser Permanente’s Maui Lani Medical Office in Wailuku, the center embraces moms and newborns within 48 hours of being discharged from the hospital. The center adds the convenience of combining postpartum check-ups for both mom and baby in one visit, providing physical and emotional well-being assessments for mom, as well as weight and other health monitoring for baby. The lactation consultant who visits with mom and baby in the hospital will visit the couple again at the Mom and Newborn Center to provide continued support in the breastfeeding process.

Kaiser Permanente will close its mobile health vehicle site at the Royal Lahaina Resort today, and move all equipment to the new modular Lahaina clinic, which will open its doors to serve Kaiser Permanente members on Thursday, March 28.

The volunteers worked at Paeloko Learning Center, a Native Hawaiian education center in Waihe’e that provides hands-on learning opportunities through educational field trips, cultural workshops, and environmental restoration projects.

Kaiser Permanente will be consolidating its three medical first aid stations into a single West Maui location at the Royal Lahaina Resort beginning Monday, Sept. 25, 2023.  

Kaiser Permanente Hawaiʻi announced the hire of four new doctors to its staff of more than 700 health care providers in the state, including one member who joins the team at Maui Memorial Medical Center in Wailuku.

Kaiser Permanente Hawaiʻi welcomes three new physicians to the behavioral health, optometry and hospital medicine departments.

Maui received an on-site Oxygen Generator last week and was able to install and test the unit successfully this week, according to Maui Health.

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

Kaiser Permanente administered more than 1,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine during a mass vaccination event held today at their Wailuku Medical Office.

The unions say Kaiser Permanente’s plan to close its Gastrointestinal and Ambulatory Surgery services at its Wailuku Clinic expressed concerns over continuity of care, waiting time for procedures and potential job losses.

Kaiser Permanente Hawai’i announced today that it will not be terminating health coverage for non-payment through April 2020 and will “continue to evaluate the situation moving forward.”

Three physicians have joined Kaiser Permanente Hawaiʻi facilities on Maui and Oʻahu.

“While we are pleased that AlohaCare can continue to support QUEST members on Oʻahu, we are disappointed that AlohaCare was not selected for an all-island contract,” said Laura M. Lott, Director of Communications & Public Relations for Kaiser Permanente.

Six doctors have joined Kaiser Permanente Hawaiʻi facilities across the state including three new physicians on Oʻahu and three on Maui.

A 58-year-old Maui man was arrested and charged with terroristic threatening on Thursday night following reported threats at a medical facility on Maui.

Four doctors have recently joined Kaiser Permanente on Maui, adding to Kaiser Permanente’s staff of more than 600 healthcare providers in Hawaiʻi.