Maui Memorial Medical Center plans to make $28 million in cuts to services and jobs starting July 1.

Immediate reductions will be made to non-clinical and non-essential contracts at the state-owned facility — part of the Hawaii Health Systems Corp. .The cuts include 50 to 75 administrative positions, the Maui region board said, adding that this is only expected to save the region a nominal amount compared to its shortfall. Public input is required in order to shut down services. Community meetings are being scheduled and will be announced once confirmed.

Heart, surgical and intensive care units, as well as oncology, obstetrics and gynecology services and physician call coverage are currently being reviewed for service cuts. 

"The cuts to our hospitals, facilities, staffing and services we provide our communities will set us back 20 years," Wesley Lo, chief executive officer of the Maui region, said in a statement.

The decision came after the latest state budget projections, the board said. 

"We are limited by the options that we have before us," Avery Chumbley, a member on the Maui region board, said in a press release. "We knew this day was going to happen and while we understand the state cannot continue to fund our financial shortfalls. For three years we have asked the Legislature to allow us to move forward on a public/private partnership so we could avoid this very day."

The Maui region of HHSC serves more than 11,000 patients and sees over 45,000 people in the emergency room each year. Maui Memorial has more than 1,500 employees and is the only acute-care medical facility in the county. For more information, go to MauiMemorialMedical.org.