Department of health hawaii contact tracing. Honolulu ap the hawaii department of health says it has hired a new official to oversee the states maligned coronavirus contact tracing program. Hawaiis top health officials have turned their much maligned contact tracing program over to a new hire following record numbers of covid 19 cases and a call for the removal of the states. The honolulu star advertiser reported thursday.
The university of hawaii system hawaii state department of health doh contact tracing training program kicks off its first cohort of trainees on monday june 8. The department has 11 staffers who do contact tracing work. The first pilot group will have 16 trainees in a free online one and a half day training for clinical healthcare professionals.
The department brought in additional help from other department workers university nursing students and others to help regular staff as. Hawaii department of health uses new digital tool to enhance contact tracing and monitoring capacity posted on apr 29 2020 in newsroom honolulu the hawaii department of health doh is using a new digital tool to follow up with individuals who have had close contact with a person identified by doh as having covid 19. Contact tracing is one important step in a multi pronged approach to slow the spread of covid 19.
A second group of about 250 will begin. Honolulu ap the hawaii department of health says it has hired a new official to oversee the states maligned coronavirus contact tracing program. The honolulu star advertiser reported thursday.
Honolulu hawaii hawaiinewsnow on monday the first group of prospective contact tracers in hawaii approximately 300 of them will begin training.