Our veterans at Yukio Okutsu State Veterans Home deserve better (“Hilo veterans home fined again for failing to meet standards,” Star-Advertiser, July 26).
Overall, Hawaii’s health care system ranks among the best in the nation. That’s reflected in the state’s statistically long and relatively healthy lifespans, access to quality care and outcomes from treatment.
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Staffing shortages and health and safety problems have continued to plague the Yukio Okutsu State Veterans Home in Hilo, two years after the state took over the nursing facility and fined the company that was managing it over $510,000 for numerous violations following a COVID-19 outbreak that infected more than 80% of residents, killing 27.