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.B . NO. <br /> A BILL FOR AN ACT <br /> RELATING TO THE HAWAII HEALTH SYSTEMS CORPORATION PRIMARY CARE <br /> TRAINING PROGRAM. <br /> BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII : <br /> 1 SECTION 1 . The legislature finds that the State faces a <br /> 2 severe shortage of healthcare providers . This shortage is <br /> 3 particularly acute in the field of primary care, in which most <br /> 4 of the healthcare cost savings in prevention and early <br /> 5 intervention occur. <br /> 6 The legislature further finds that the Hawaii health <br /> 7 systems corporation primary care training program is an <br /> 8 effective way to reduce the impact of the shortage of primary <br /> 9 care providers and improve access to healthcare throughout the <br /> 10 State, especially on the neighbor islands . Administered by Hilo <br /> 11 medical center, this interdisciplinary program is centered at <br /> 12 the Hawaii island family health center, which serves as a <br /> 13 training site for family medicine physicians and medical <br /> 14 students through the Hawaii island family medicine residency; <br /> 15 advanced practice nurses from the school of nursing and dental <br /> 16 hygiene at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and the University <br /> 17 of Hawaii at Hilo; registered nursing students from the <br /> 18 University of Hawaii at Hilo; pharmacy students in clinical <br /> 19 pharmacy practice from the University of Hawaii at Hilo ' s Daniel <br /> 20 K. Inouye college of pharmacy; health psychologists from I Ola <br /> 21 Lahui, an organization that trains psychologists to meet the <br /> 22 needs of residents of Hawaii ' s rural areas; and baccalaureate <br />