HB2269 Summary

• Appropriates funds from general revenues for fiscal year 2018-2019 to purchase, staff, and operate two mobile clinics serving the homeless population in Hawaii.

• Mobile clinic staff shall include one primary care provider, one nurse, one pharmacist, one psychiatrist, and other personnel such as social workers, outreach workers, and medical/nursing students as needed.

• Mobile clinics shall provide minimum services including non-emergency medical care, STD/HIV/hepatitis testing, family planning, behavioral health and substance abuse services, mental health services, dental care, pharmacy services, shower and laundry services, health insurance enrollment, and street medicine.

• Street medicine is defined as directly delivering health care and related services to persons found on streets, in parks, along river banks, on beaches, and in abandoned buildings.

• Department of Human Services shall administer the appropriated funds and may procure mobile clinic services under chapter 103F, Hawaii Revised Statutes, with the Act taking effect July 1, 3000.