WELCOME
Aloha and welcome to the Health Care Facilities Utilization Report of the Hawaii State Health Planning and Development Agency.

This report provides market data for use in health care development.  Our customers include health care corporate development professionals, law firms, consultants, accounting firms, marketing and advertising agencies, academic researchers, the media and others interested in Hawaii's health care industry.

THE AGENCY
The Hawaii State Health Planning and Development Agency (SHPDA) is an agency of state government attached to the State Department of Health for administrative purposes.  The Agency was established in the 1960's as the state's Office of Comprehensive Health Planning.  In 1974, it was designated as an independent "agency."  Then, in 1975, it was renamed the State Health Planning and Development Agency.

The Agency's purpose is to "promote accessibility for all the people of the state to quality health care at reasonable cost."

Statewide planning is the major activity of the Agency.  The Agency, through its councils located in all counties of the state, develops and produces the statutory mandated "Hawai'i Health Performance Plan" (H2P2), known formally in statute as the "Health Services and Facilities Plan" (HSFP).   This plan addresses the health care needs of the state including inpatient care, health care facilities and special needs based on performance outcomes.  It further includes standards for utilization of health care facilities and major medical equipment as well as priorities identified by our community health planning councils.

The H2P2 is the policy foundation and a development resource for those in the private and public sectors, and provides the basis for the certificate of need (CERT) program.

The H2P2 is the result of extraordinary collaborative volunteer efforts by providers and consumers of health care services across the State.  In addition to our local councils, many of Hawaii's most prominent health care organizations volunteered their medical expertise and staff knowledge to this initiative.

We have added the H2P2 to our web-site in 2001.

THIS REPORT
As part of its statutory functions, the Agency collects health care utilization data on a yearly basis.

This report highlights utilization data from calendar year 2001.  It focuses on recognized bed capacities for acute care, long term care and specialty care.

Tables 1, 2 and 3, show the SHPDA approved bed capacity by acute, long term and specialty care facilities, respectively.

Tables 4 through 6 display the utilization of all inpatient facilities by county by type of beds by facility, by facility by type of beds, and by type of beds by facility, respectively.  The number of patient days, admissions, average length of stay, average daily census, and number of beds by type of service are displayed.

A historical time series for the number of admissions, average length of stay, occupancy rates and average daily census for the years 1982 through 2001 are displayed in Tables 7 through 10.

Tables 11, 12 and 13 display unstaffed acute, long term and specialty care beds.

Tables 14 and 15 show the number of "wait listed" patients.  These are long term care patients that are being held or waiting in higher care level beds awaiting placement for a long term care bed (e.g. SNF or ICF bed.).

MRI and CT utilization are shown in Tables 16 and 18, respectively.

Daily room rates for long term care are listed in Table 17.

The home health care utilization section will be published later in a seperate report.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This publication represents another one of the agency's collaborative efforts with Hawaii's health care providers.

COMMENTS
We welcome your comments and suggestions.  Also, please visit our web page, www.shpda.org,  for the latest in Hawaii health care development news and 
resources.