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COUNTY OF HAWAII STATE OF HAWAII RESOLUTION NO. ~~~ ®8 A RESOLUTION TRANSFERRING/APPROPRIATING AN APPROPRIATION OUT AND FROM THE DESIGNATED FUND ACCOUNT(S) AND CREDITING SAME TO A DESIGNATED FUND ACCOUNT(S). WHEREAS, the Office of Social Ministries (OSM) is a department of the Roman Catholic Church in Hawaii that serves the community through its Safety Net programs for the underserved; and WHEREAS, 78,724 individuals or 55% of Big Island residents are either uninsured for dental care or are insured under Medicaid (Primary Care Association 2004); however, there are less than eight dentists who accept Medicaid/Quest patients on the island; and WHEREAS, these at risk residents include those who have Medicaid/Quest insurance, are low-income and/or uninsured, medically fragile, children, the developmentally disabled, the homeless, the mentally ill, and frail elderly; and WHEREAS, Medicaid and Quest programs provide no routine dental coverage for adults and children, acid these patients must often wait until their condition is an emergency situation; and WHEREAS, since they have no regular dental care provider, they go to the Kona Community Hospital Emergency Room (ER) which refers the patients (from the ER) to the Mobile Care Health Project (MCHP) dental van because the hospital does not have hospital dentistry available; and WHEREAS, the MCHP is a dental service that provides direct dental care, flouride treatments, and'health education for the underinsured and uninsured at-risk population, and the dental van serves an average of 1,700 patients annually at no cost or on a sliding scale based on income level; and WHEREAS, as of June 30, 2009, the OSM MCHP dental van services will be transferred to the West Hawaii Community Health Center to continue provision of outreach dental services in the West Hawaii azea; and WHEREAS, Contingency Relief funds from Council District 8 will be appropriated to the Hawaii Fire Department to be used towards the OSM/Mobile Health Care Project for financial support in the West Hawaii azea; now, therefore, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE COUNTY OF HAWAII that the following amount is hereby transferred/appropriated as set forth below: