Puna Community Medical Center signed a memorandum of understanding last week to establish an affiliation with Hilo Medical Center.
The new affiliation with Hilo Medical Center will lend health care expertise and financial support to Puna’s walk-in medical clinic, which provides urgent-care services to Pahoa and the surrounding Puna community.
In fiscal year 2015, 31 percent, or 14,620, of Hilo Medical Center’s emergency department visits were patients residing in Puna.
“When we dove deep into the numbers, we identified 4,671 of these emergency department patients who were from Puna and had minor health issues that could have been cared for adequately at PCMC,” said Dr. Daniel Belcher, East Hawaii Regional Board chairman.
Fox fires executive amid harassment claims
Issues with workplace culture emerged at a new division of Twenty-First Century Fox on Monday as its sports group abruptly fired a top executive, Jamie Horowitz, amid an investigation into sexual harassment, a person briefed on the matter said.
The person, who was not authorized to speak publicly, said the investigation had begun about a week ago.
Horowitz was in charge of sports programming, and his radical restructuring of the network caused widespread consternation among its employees.
Menounos reveals brain tumor, quits E! News
NEW YORK >> Maria Menounos says she has been diagnosed with a benign brain tumor and has announced her resignation from E! News.
Menounos tells People magazine that she underwent surgery last month to remove a golf-ball-size tumor discovered in February. Menounos says 99.9 percent of the tumor was removed during the seven-hour procedure June 8. She says there’s a small chance that it could come back.
E! says Monday that Menounos is leaving the network after three years. The cable network says it believes Menounos will tackle her health struggles “with the same fierce dedication she is known for.”
The 39-year-old says her face is still numb from the surgery but should be back to normal soon.
Menounos is also caring for her mother, who has stage 4 brain cancer.
ON THE MOVE
Toastmasters Hawaii has announced that Helen Dora Hyden is the new district club growth director for District 49’s 2017-2018 term year. She is responsible for overseeing marketing, club building and club retention of District 49. Hyden will also develop a marketing plan to introduce updated initiatives as well as guide the district into meeting membership and club growth objectives. Hyden is president of Polyglot Toastmasters Club, located on the campus of Hawaii Pacific University and is open to all HPU alumni, students, faculty and staff. A member of Kamehameha Toastmasters Club as well, Hyden’s goal is to strengthen all the clubs in Hawaii with the help of club coaches as well as generate new clubs with the assistance of mentors and sponsors.
Destination Hotels has named Mike Cuthbertson managing director of Destination Residences Hawaii. Prior to joining the exclusive resort, he served in various management positions at different hotels, including Intrawest, Playground Destination Properties, Hyatt Residences Clubs, Island Outpost Hotels, Carefree Resorts and Grand Bay Hotels in places such as Miami and Aspen, Colo. Cuthbertson moved to Hawaii in 2012 and was a managing director of development and principal broker for Timbers Resorts on Maui and Kauai.
