Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 323D-82

  • Person: means an individual or a natural person, a trust or estate, a society, a firm, an assembly, a partnership, a corporation, a professional corporation, an association, the State, any political subdivision of the State, a county, a state agency or any instrumentality of the State, a county agency or any instrumentality of a county. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 323D-2

A person who has acquired or is engaged in the acquisition of a hospital shall not substantially reduce or eliminate direct patient care services at the hospital below the levels at which those services were available at the time of the acquisition, without first giving written notice of the planned reduction or elimination to the agency and receiving the agency’s approval, prior to implementing the reduction or elimination of services.