HHS provides $12.6 million to businesses in Kealakekua under CARES Act

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Through the fourth quarter of 2020, businesses in Kealakekua received $12.6 million in health-related relief from the CARES Act issued by the Department of Health and Human Services.

According to numbers reported through the fourth quarter of 2020, businesses in Hawaii received $270.2 million in health-related relief from the CARES Act issued by the Department of Health and Human Services. The largest recipient of funding in the state was Maui Health System a Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, LLC with a total of $17.4 million. The average loan size in the city was $790,086 while the state's average loan amount was $102,620.

Of the money distributed, $30 billion went out automatically to health providers based on previous year medicare payments. If the money wasn't returned within 90 days the provider is then automatically entered into the repayment terms that are issued by HHS. With the money going out automatically and the rules constantly changing, some of the businesses that received the money weren't eligible to receive it once the final rules were sent out.

According to the Department of Health and Human Services, this information represents the list of providers that received a payment from the General Distribution, High Impact Targeted Allocation, Safety Net Hospitals, Non-Medicare, Rural Targeted Allocation and/or the Skilled Nursing Facility Targeted Allocation of the Provider Relief Fund and who have attested to receiving one or more payments and agreed to the Terms and Conditions as of July 8, 2020.

All PPP loan recipients
RankBusinessDollar Amount Received
1Kona Community Hospital$12,060,766
2Hospitalist Medicine Physicians of California, Inc.$417,834
3John P Bunnell Inc., D.D.S.$41,046
4Bradon Kimura Inc., M.D.$34,542
5Islands Emergency Medical Service Hawaii, LLC$29,453
6West Hawaii Home Health Services, Inc.$24,709
7Timothy E Kale Optometrist, Inc.$14,928
8Michael Nichols$4,718
9Sukchai Satta, Inc., M.D.$4,304
10Terry Ann Fujioka$3,155
11Wynette Y Kitajima Inc., M.D.$2,001
12Mauka Movement, LLC$1,893
13Esther Smith$1,302
14Saito Adult Foster Care, LLC$327
15Santad Sira$227
16Sound Physicians of Hawaii, Inc.$168