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Jan 20, 2025 | 
thegardenisland.com | Nina Wu Star-Advertiser
The leaders of three unions representing more than 5,000 nurses joined forces Thursday at the state Capitol to rally for legislation ensuring safer standards of staffing at Hawaii hospitals. The leaders of three unions representing more than 5,000 nurses joined forces Thursday at the state Capitol to rally for legislation ensuring safer standards of staffing at Hawaii hospitals.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
thegardenisland.com | Nina Wu Star-Advertiser
Hawaii health officials are expressing concern over a growing number of students without all of their required immunization shots for school. Hawaii health officials are expressing concern over a growing number of students without all of their required immunization shots for school. The state Department of Health said 39,583 students from the 2023-2024 school year were not up to date on their required immunizations — a 25% jump from the prior year.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
thegardenisland.com | Nina Wu Star-Advertiser
Nurses at Wilcox Medical Center on Kauai began a three-day strike Tuesday after negotiations with their employer reached an impasse. Nurses at Wilcox Medical Center on Kauai began a three-day strike Tuesday after negotiations with their employer reached an impasse.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
thegardenisland.com | Nina Wu Star-Advertiser
The Hawaii Department of Health today said it has detected “very low levels” of H5 avian influenza in wastewater samples collected last month from the Lihue Wastewater Treatment Plant on Kauai. DOH said the State Laboratories Division detected H5 from a sample collected Dec. 11 at levels that were “so low that it was not considered a positive result.” The department got similar results for subsequent samples collected on Dec. 18 and Jan. 8.
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Jan 11, 2025 | 
thegardenisland.com | Nina Wu Star-Advertiser
Hawaii continues to suffer from a serious shortage of health care workers, according to the latest findings from the Healthcare Association of Hawaii. Hawaii continues to suffer from a serious shortage of health care workers, according to the latest findings from the Healthcare Association of Hawaii.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
thegardenisland.com | Nina Wu Star-Advertiser
The union representing health care workers, including nurses at Maui Memorial Medical Center, has ratified a new, four-year contract with Maui Health. The union representing health care workers, including nurses at Maui Memorial Medical Center, has ratified a new, four-year contract with Maui Health. The United Nurses and Health Care Employees of Hawaii, which represents more than 900 workers at Maui Health, said Monday its members voted overwhelmingly to ratify the contract.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
thegardenisland.com | Nina Wu Star-Advertiser
President Joe Biden has posthumously honored the service and sacrifice of the members of Hui Panala‘au, a group of men who courageously volunteered to live on uninhabited Pacific equatorial islands so they could become U.S. territories. President Joe Biden has posthumously honored the service and sacrifice of the members of Hui Panala‘au, a group of men who courageously volunteered to live on uninhabited Pacific equatorial islands so they could become U.S. territories.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
thegardenisland.com | Nina Wu Star-Advertiser
The year 2024 was a deadly one on Hawaii roads, with a grim tally of more than 100 traffic-related fatalities, a jump of about 10% from the previous year. The year 2024 was a deadly one on Hawaii roads, with a grim tally of more than 100 traffic-related fatalities, a jump of about 10% from the previous year.
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
westhawaiitoday.com | Nina Wu Star-Advertiser
The first confirmed cases of highly pathogenic avian influenza on Oahu is worrisome news for those dedicated to protecting endangered birds. Until November there had been no confirmed detections of H5N1 in the Hawaiian Isles. By mid-November that was no longer the case, with positive detections in a backyard flock of rescued ducks in Wahiawa as well as in a randomly tested wild duck on Oahu’s North Shore. Hawaii was the last of 50 U.S. states to detect HPAI in wild birds.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
thegardenisland.com | Nina Wu Star-Advertiser
Lahaina Intermediate School teacher Nathan Kahaiali‘i is running his third Honolulu Marathon on Sunday. Lahaina Intermediate School teacher Nathan Kahaiali‘i is running his third Honolulu Marathon on Sunday. After losing his home to the Lahaina wildfire in 2023, Kahaiali‘i, 33, has been running marathons to raise funds and awareness for Maui wildfire survivors — all with the same pair of running shoes.
