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After more than six months of housing and treating homeless patients discharged from Oahu hospitals, Hawaii’s first “medical respite” kauhale will begin shutting down Thursday.
Not having a home has become a barrier for some to receiving care, so the Pacific Cancer Foundation and a few nonprofits on Maui are banding together to establish a medical respite for those who are homeless undergoing cancer treatment.