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MEDIA RELEASE The state Department of Health (DOH) has received a $3.6 million Mental Health Transformation grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). This new grant brings mote than $730,000 each year for five years to provide enhanced mental health services with a focus on trauma-informed, recovery-oriented care for adults with […]

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MEDIA RELEASE Updating a plan to control tobacco use in Hawaii will be the subject of a series of public meetings the state Department of Health, the Tobacco Prevention and Control Trust Fund Advisory Board and the Coalition for a Tobacco Free Hawaii are conducting this month. The meetings are intended to gather community input […]

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MEDIA RELEASE The state Department of Health (DOH) is expanding the role of Community Mental Health Centers (CMHC) to better serve local consumers, families, and service providers in each county. Beginning July 1, CMHCs in all counties will represent and plan for the broader behavioral health needs of their local communities; identifying service gaps and […]

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The following letter was issued Wednesday, April 14: Recent criticism of Gov. Linda Lingle’s record of appointing women is completely off base, misinformed and political. When Lingle appoints an individual, she does not use a quota system as some such as the Hawaii Democratic Women’s Caucus and Democrat legislators appear to be advocating. Instead, she […]

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MEDIA RELEASE The state Department of Health (DOH) will be holding free H1N1 vaccination clinics on the Big Island throughout the month of April. The clinics will be at two locations, one in Hilo and the other in Kona, and anyone who has not yet received the 2009 H1N1 flu vaccine should make an appointment […]

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MEDIA RELEASE The state Department of Health has begun placing orders with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for 2009 Novel H1N1 Influenza vaccine.   The CDC has approximately 3 million initial doses of nasal-spray flu vaccine LAIV (FluMist®) available to the nation in this first series of shipments to all states that […]

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The State Indicator Report on Fruits and Vegetables, 2009 showed that the percentage of Hawai‘i’s adults eating fruits or vegetables or a combination of fruits and vegetables is higher than the national average. The percentage of Hawai‘i’s adolescents that are consuming vegetables is about the same as the national average. However, the percentage of Hawai‘i’s […]

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