Here are four things to know about the layoffs.
1. The Kauai region layoffs involve 30 employees — 20 from Kauai Veterans Memorial Hospital and West Kauai Clinics in Waimea, and 10 from Mahelona Memorial Hospital in Kapaa, Missy Keyes-Saiki, HHSC Kauai Region spokeswoman, told The Garden Island. All together, the West Kauai Medical Center — which includes the Kauai Veterans Memorial Hospital, a hospital outpatient clinic in Port Allen, a clinic in Kalaheo and a new clinic scheduled to open in Poipu — employs 276 people, according to HHSC. The Mahelona Hospital, including its 24-hour emergency services, employs about 145 people.
2. Full-time, part-time and temporary positions are affected.
3. The workforce reduction comes amid financial problems. Kauai faced a roughly $3 million shortfall in fiscal year 2016 after the Hawaii Legislature didn’t appropriate all the requested funds, according to the report. It was a similar situation for the HHSC’s Oahu region, which earlier this month announced plans to cut 64 positions at Leahi Hospital and Maluhia in Honolulu as it faces an estimated $3.7 million deficit in FY 2016.
4. Affected employees were notified of their pending layoffs Friday. Formal notifications will be made Aug. 1.
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