07-22-2026, 11:00 PM
(This post was last modified: 07-23-2026, 12:18 AM by HereOnThePrimalEdge.)
Over the past two years, I’ve secured $570,000 in state funding for the Puna Community Medical Center,
That’s a start, but they need $160 million in 2024 dollars. $400,000 is for planning and design and $170,000 for operating funding to advance the development of a medical campus, which sounds like more planning and design. How much of that is spent in Puna?
With a price tag of $160 million, the two-story 25-bed facility will be part of a 5-acre campus on land leased from the Hawai‘i Department of Land and Natural Resources, about three-quarters of a mile north of Pāhoa town near the 9-mile marker on Highway 130. It will house an emergency department, radiology department, surgical department and behavioral health services.
https://bigislandnow.com/2024/02/03/new-...g-forward/
That’s a start, but they need $160 million in 2024 dollars. $400,000 is for planning and design and $170,000 for operating funding to advance the development of a medical campus, which sounds like more planning and design. How much of that is spent in Puna?
With a price tag of $160 million, the two-story 25-bed facility will be part of a 5-acre campus on land leased from the Hawai‘i Department of Land and Natural Resources, about three-quarters of a mile north of Pāhoa town near the 9-mile marker on Highway 130. It will house an emergency department, radiology department, surgical department and behavioral health services.
https://bigislandnow.com/2024/02/03/new-...g-forward/