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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Hope Dialysis Center has announced it will be closing its’ doors next month. According to CEO Chris Fisher, it is because it can no longer operate without Medicaid reimbursement, which he says will stop after Apr. 16, 2022.
In the HDC press release, dated Apr. 5, 2022,...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Some local nurses working at the LBJ Tropical Medical Center claim that they are working 24 to 48 hours shifts due to the shortage of nurses at the territory’s only medical facility.
Now nurses are calling out to government leaders to please consider the issue of the...
HONOLULU — Hawaiian Airlines last week confirmed its long-awaited return to New Zealand on July 2 with the resumption of three-times-weekly nonstop flights between Honolulu (HNL) and Auckland (AKL), ending a more than two-year-long suspension due to pandemic-related travel restrictions.
“Our July...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A woman who was convicted of assaulting her husband last year during a family domestic violence incident was sentenced to 24 months probation last week by the High Court.
The defendant, who was free on bond appeared in High Court last week for sentencing. She was...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — All travelers on Thursday’s Hawaiian Airlines flight tested negative for COVID-19 and according to Director of Health Motusa Tuileama Nua all passengers were cleared to go home after their negative tests. However, they are required to self quarantine and log on to...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — On Saturday the Dept of Health reported one new death related to COVID-19 . The report did not give any other details on the latest fatality.
The number of new COVID cases in the latest report on April 8 was 79, out of 753 tests conducted by the Department of Health and...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — It’s now going on to 7 weeks since the first community case of COVID-19 was reported on Feb. 21 and some families are still trying to readjust their lifestyle and figure out how to overcome financial hardship due to the closure of work places, schools and day care...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Territorial Bank of American Samoa has posted on its website a notice of a shutdown over the Easter weekend.
The notice advises that TBAS has scheduled a ‘required’ server maintenance project to begin the evening of Saturday, April 16 that will take all banking...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Gov Lemanu Peleti Mauga signed into law the Samoan Language Commission Bill on April 5, 2022. This law will establish a Samoan Language Commission in American Samoa, establish both Samoan and English as the official languages in the Territory; and will amend the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Faipule support the idea that there should be more funds allocated to fund and support the nursing program at the American Samoa Community College (ASCC). They believe that this is the only solution to the problem of not enough nurses serving at the LBJ Tropical Medical...