| 1994 |
The Center opened its second satellite clinic, located in Waianae Town.
State Medicaid health reform (Med-QUEST) pushed the Center to move toward Managed Care.
The Center’s Administrator and Medical Director resigned to take positions with AlohaCare; an HMO formed by Hawaii’s community health centers in response to QUEST.
The Center named Richard Bettini as its Executive Director and Dr. Melanie Ho as its Interim Medical Director. |
1995 |
To ease crowded space, the Center’s Business Services, Personnel, Patient Services, and HPAS were relocated to leased space in the Waianae Mall.
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The Center received a grant from the Harry & Jeanette Weinberg Foundation to build a Laboratory and Dental building.
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| A grant from the James & Abigail Campbell Foundation provided significant expansion for the Center’s Nanakuli Clinic, now named the James and Abigail Campbell Clinic. |
1996 |
The Center’s Adult Day Care Department was awarded a contract to manage the Hale Kako’o Respite Center in Alewa Heights. The Respite Center offers day respite care and provides a program to enhance the lives of memory-impaired adults who have Alzheimer’s disease and other related disorders.
In a partnership with the State Department of Health, the Center assumed operation of the Rural Oahu Family Planning Project in Waipahu. The Project provides family planning services and expanded primary care.
Dr. Richard Friedman joined the Health Center as Medical Director.
The Army MAST services replaced their smaller helicopters with the larger Blackhawk helicopter to handle the Center’s emergency evacuations.
Pacific Business News names the Center as the largest Hawaii non-profit service provider in the State.
The first Tom Dwyer Memorial Scholarship was awarded (Dr. Dwyer was an emergency room physician). |
1997 |
The Center opened an Urgent Care and Occupational Medicine clinic.
An Affiliation Agreement with Kapiolani Health was signed. The Agreement included a Kapiolani perinatologist to serve as consultant for Waianae obstetrical services, and for the Center’s Medical Director to assist Kapiolani with its ambulatory care services redesign; a joint exchange of management systems; joint planning teams to work on preventive health initiatives; facility improvements at Waianae; and the development of research activities.
The Center receives Waianae Rotary Employer of the Year award. |
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