#Maui Health

In the pandemic, Maui Health had to run an emergency operations center, set up community clinics, tap into other health care facilities for assistance and communicate better with staff and the community.

Nurses at Maui Memorial Medical Center during the COVID pandemic went to great lengths not to bring the virus home and spent months in isolation from loved ones and neighbors who applauded their bravery but feared being around them. 

Maui Health has launched a “Keep It Kind” pledge as part of National Workplace Violence Prevention Awareness Month in April, to raise awareness about the rise in workplace violence incidents in healthcare.

More than 270 supporters and staff of Maui Economic Opportunity, including state House Speaker Nadine Nakamura, Lt. Gov. Sylvia Luke and Mayor Richard Bissen, helped the nonprofit celebrate 60 years of Helping People, Changing Lives, and retired Hale Mahaolu Executive Director Grant Chun at a fundraising Gala on March 22 at the King Kamehameha Golf […]

After a nearly eight hour search, Gerhardt Konig, 46, of Maui was located and arrested on Oʻahu. The Maui doctor is accused of attempted murder after he allegedly tried to push his wife off a hiking trail and struck her in the head with a rock, according to authorities.

Living Way Church Maui and Project Vision Hawai‘i have opened Kupanaha Medical Respite, a specialty shelter providing a safe space for individuals experiencing homelessness to recover after medical treatment or hospital stays.

The Color Festival Hawaiʻi will return to the Maui Arts & Cultural Center on April 26, 2025, featuring live music, food and the signature color-throwing experience.

College students looking to gain hands-on experience in healthcare have an opportunity with Maui Health’s new paid Summer Internship Program.

Maui Health CEO Lynn Fulton has been awarded the prestigious Pacific Business News “Women Who Mean Business” award for 2025, an accolade recognizing extraordinary women who excel in both business and community leadership.

The Maui Health Foundation has received a $2.25 million grant from Hawaiʻi Community Foundation’s Maui Strong Fund for the construction of up to 15 additional transitional housing units for healthcare professionals directly impacted by the August 2023 Lahaina fire.

Maui Health recently held its second annual Maui Wound Healing Symposium on Jan. 31, 2025, at Maui Memorial Medical Center.

After successfully completing its inaugural Junior Volunteer and High School Summer Youth Employment Programs, Kaiser Permanente will be accepting applications for future volunteer opportunities. The program will also expand to include its Maui Lani and Wailuku clinics

Maui Health will host its first Maui Healthcare Career Fair of 2025 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 24, at the main lobby of Maui Memorial Medical Center in Wailuku. Recruiters will be available to discuss job opportunities.

In an effort to address the growing problem of nursing shortages in Hawaiʻi, state senators led by Central Maui Sen. Troy Hashimoto are proposing that the University of Hawaiʻi Maui College establish a four-year nursing bachelors of science degree, a significant step up from the current two-year associate program.

Approximately 70 keiki, teens, and families were partnered at the Kahului Target store with members of the Hawaii National Guard, US Coast Guard, Maui Fire Department, US Army, Maui County, Kaiser Permanente, Maui Health and AMR paramedics. Each youth was given a $100 Target gift card for their Christmas shopping.

The proposed resolution comes after the recent three-day strike by members of the United Nurses and Health Care Employees of Hawaiʻi held Nov. 4-6. The union maintains that the primary issues remain safe staffing and wages.

The first two completed homes under the Housing for Healthcare initiative were blessed in a private ceremony held with the two new tenants and their families, both Maui healthcare professionals who lost their homes and belongings in the devastating Lahaina fires last year. The families moved into their homes this month.

Maui health care workers returned to work on Thursday after a three-day strike, conducted in an effort to shine light on issues surrounding staffing and wages.

In the second day of a three-day walkout, hundreds of union health care workers walked picket lines and waved signs Tuesday outside Maui Health facilities in a labor dispute over safe staffing and wages.

Maui Health said it has contingency plans in place for a strike and that all facilities will remain open, as talks continue over the three remaining major issues: wages, benefits and staffing.