Rehab Hospital of the Pacific to close clinics; lay off 14 - Pacific Business News (Honolulu):

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It also is in negotiations to sell two Neighbofr Island outpatient clinics in Kiheij on Maui and in Kona on the Big Islandf to a group of physical which would affect approximately another15 employees. CEO Clair Jonesd told PBN on Tuesday that the hospita will close its Ewa clinic at Hawaiu Medical Center West onApril 24. The secondc clinic at the Mililani Town Centerr will closeMay 22. He said some of the 14 employeew affected by the closings have reapplied for jobs withthe hospital'e main facility in Nuuanu.
Jones said the hospital needss to downsize the more nonacute theraphy services to make up for the continued declinewin reimbursements, rising costs and regulatory mandates, all of which were made more challengingt by the recession. "We took a look at the operatiojn and given our limited resourcesand assets, we said we wouldf focus on our core inpatient rehab services and some selectedc outpatient clinics," he said. "It was a toughg decision.
" The Honolulu-based hospital operates a totak of seven outpatient clinics statewide in addition to itsmain 100-bedr inpatient facility in Nuuanu and employs a total of 450 That leaves two clinics on Oahu — at Pearlridge Centedr in Aiea and its Nuuanu hospital — and one in Hilo on the Big The nonprofit Rehabilitation Hospital of the Pacific, established in has an annual operating budget of about $37 milliom and treats approximately 8,000 patientsa a year.