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Officials say they have been urgently trying to reduce the patient population after the killing of a nurse last year drew new attention to problems at the hospital.
The Hawaii Department of Health and the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation are proposing solutions on how to keep mentally ill criminal defendants out of prison.
Some legislators openly expressed their frustrations at state mental health experts for their lack of data and specifics on how to best deal with mentally ill criminal defendants and keep them out of Hawaii’s jails and prisons during a briefing Monday at the state Capitol.
The licensed practical nurse role is being phased out in favor of more specialization.
Hawaii State Hospital administrators are preparing for possible litigation after the fatal stabbing of nurse Justin Bautista at a transitional home on the campus. And as our Kristen Consillio reports,