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Critical Delays
Maui News

By ILIMA LOOMIS, Staff Writer

WAILUKU – When 11-year-old Kaliko Leialoha-Dutro was run over by a “monster truck” while riding his bike through Waiehu in March, ER doctors at Maui Memorial Medical Center decided he needed to be seen by trauma specialists in Honolulu. The boy had a dislocated hip, a fractured pelvis, a lacerated liver and internal bleeding. But because Hawaii Air Ambulance planes were busy with other patients, and it was too dark for Maui’s new helicopter ambulance to fly, he ended up spending almost 12 hours in the Maui emergency room waiting for transportation.
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Government Linda Lingle Comments of West Maui Hospital Need
(Story exerpt from Maui News)

HONOLULU, April 24, 2005.......During her session with reporters from the Neighbor Islands, (Governor Linda) Lingle also weighed in on plans for a second hospital on Maui although she did not indicate that she favored either of two competing proposals.

“I think additional facilities are important on Maui,” she said. “The population is growing.” She had met with groups proposing a West Maui hospital to discuss their plans, as well as with Sen. Rosalyn Baker, whose district includes West Maui and South Maui and who chairs the Senate Health Committee. (Complete Exerpt)

Improvement Association Asks Maui Memorial to Clarify Plans for West Maui

Lahaina-February 7, 2005-Moving to bring some clarity to proposals for new health care facilities, the West Maui Improvement Foundation has invited Wesley Lo, chief executive officer of Maui Memorial Medical Center, to respond to a series of questions it says are key to understanding how each might play a role in providing acute emergency care to residents and visitors. Complete Release