Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 7, Number 12, 1 December 1990 — SHIP enrollment open to Jan. 7 [ARTICLE]

SHIP enrollment open to Jan. 7

The Department of Health has onee again extended the State Health Insurance Program (SHIP) app!ication period. The deadline whieh would have ended Oct. 31 has been extended to Jan. 7, 1991 due to the overwhelming number of applieahon requests to the SHIP office.

Since Oct. 1, SHIP has received more than 2,300 applications with an average of 100 applieations per day during the last 10 days. More than 5,800 people have become members since the start of this program. SHIP provides preventive health insurance to people who are uninsuredand meet certain ineome limits.

"We have targeted imn igrant and other hard to reach populations for this enrollment period," said John C. Lewin, dirertor of health, "and it is paying off. We've gotten great support from the ethnic community leaders." Newborns, newly adopted chiidren, newly hanai children and new spouses of current SHIP enrollees and disenrolled Medicaid clients may apply for enrollment anytime, even after the deadline.