HI HB527

Appropriates funds for fiscal years 2017-2018 and 2018-2019 to purchase, staff, and operate two mobile clinics serving the homeless population.

Mobile clinic staffing must include at minimum one primary care provider, one nurse, one pharmacist, and one psychiatrist, with optional staff including social workers, outreach workers, and medical/nursing students.

Mobile clinics shall provide services including non-emergency medical care, disease testing, family planning, behavioral health and substance abuse services, mental health services, dental care, pharmacy services, and street medicine (direct delivery of health care to persons on streets, in parks, and abandoned buildings).

Additional services include shower and laundry services, clean clothing distribution, health insurance enrollment, and referral services.

Department of Human Services administers the appropriation and may procure mobile clinic services under chapter 103F, Hawaii Revised Statutes.