Executive Director, Hawaiʻi Healthcare Task Force

I measure Hawaiʻi's health system from the record. Then I publish the corrections.

Federal, state, and carrier data reconciled into figures that carry a source, a retrieval date, and a label: measured, direct, field-verified, or modeled. Nothing modeled is presented as measured.

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Credentials

MPH · MAOL · PMP · SPHR · LSSBB · CySA+

Affiliations

Hawaiʻi Healthcare Task Force
Hawaiʻi Healthcare Intelligence Platform
Mohala Health
ISEI Consulting
U.S. Air Force veteran

The RHTP Clock

$188.9M awarded for Budget Period 1

$58.0M announced to date (30.7%)

30 October 2026

Budget Period 1 obligation deadline: 30 October 2026

1 January 2027

CMS-0057-F prior authorization API compliance date: 1 January 2027

20 January 2027

Hawaiʻi Legislature convenes: 20 January 2027

How the money should be judged

State of the System

What the record shows

Physician shortage, statewide

DIRECT

644 FTE

832.6 FTE island-adjusted

Source: JABSOM Area Health Education Center, Hawaiʻi Physician Workforce Assessment 2025 · retrieved September 6, 2026

Preliminary 2026 figures were expected 12 September 2026; this row is flagged for update when they are published.

Insurer directory overstatement of primary care, statewide

MEASURED

+107%

Listed clinicians against a verified truth set of 1,994 practicing primary care clinicians (Cut B, the milder accurate figure; the physician-only cut is +180%)

Source: HHIP over HMSA Report 403 (DHS UIPA), DCCA PVL, NPPES · retrieved May 5, 2026

Adult civil acute psychiatric beds

MEASURED

147

10.2 per 100,000 residents, net of forensic and youth-only beds; consensus minimum benchmark 30 per 100,000

Source: SHPDA 2023 Healthcare Utilization Report, Table 8; Census Vintage 2024 denominator · retrieved August 2, 2026

RHTP funds announced to date

DIRECT

$58M

$45M to JABSOM HOME RUN workforce awards and $13M to the Department of Health for ambulances and emergency communications

Source: Office of the Governor release, 1 September 2026 · retrieved September 10, 2026

See the full dashboard Corrections published: 6 · Latest: Hawaiʻi APCD named as a source

Work

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Field Notes

September 18, 2026DIRECT
ACHE panel at the HAHRM and ACHE Risk Management Leadership Conference
David Isei moderated the panel on Friday 18 September, 9:30 to 11:00, at the Imin Center, with Esther Y. Smith, MD, Scott Grosskreutz, MD, a...
September 12, 2026FIELD-VERIFIED
The RHTP program office reports 597 HOME RUN applications at the Hawaiʻi Health Workforce Summit
On a panel at the summit, the state program office and the initiative leads gave the first public status figures. HOME RUN education and tra...
September 12, 2026DIRECT
Governor Green, on Medicare reimbursement and primary care
In a conversation with Nadine Tenn Salle, MD, at the summit, Governor Green said Hawaiʻi's Medicare reimbursement sits near the bottom of th...