H.B. 1953 Summary

• Appropriates $1,000,000 from general revenues to the Department of Health for fiscal year 2012-2013 to expand emergency medical services and ambulance services on Leeward Oahu.

• Increases on-call emergency medical services availability in Ewa Beach to 16 hours per day.

• Increases on-call emergency medical services availability in Nanakuli to 24 hours per day.

• Addresses emergency medical care access gaps created by the December 2011 closure of Hawaii Medical Center's two hospitals in Ewa Beach and Liliha, which operated the state's only organ transplant program.

• Takes effect July 1, 2012.