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Samoa-Born Palagi Boy Returns Home After Nearly 5 CDC Report: Samoans just aren’t as healthy as The winners of the Dio- other Pac Islanders cese of Samoa Pago Pago’s 2 2017 summer cricket games held last week at Fagaalu Park — the east side zone Senators suggest (Sone Falelima i Sasa’e — fences & security who won after chasing down the 19 points scored by the guards for schools west side team. 6 [photo: Leua Aiono Frost] Summer Basketball League winding down B1 ONLINE @ SAMOANEWS.COM Taoto i le fa’amasinoga C M le talosaga a Y K Rev. Tofaeono DAILY CIRCULATION 7,000 B9 PAGO PAGO, AMERICAN SAMOA TUESDAY, JULY 25, 2017 $1.00 Assessment of LBJ Samoa-born Palagi boy returns services will be dis- home after nearly 5 decades by Blue Chen-Fruean 1968, Brian was born at the LBJ only four years old and they Samoa News Correspondent Medical Center in Fagaalu. He lived in government housing for cussed today in DC For his 49th birthday, Brian was only 17 days old when his about three months. Afterwards, Cruz Conboy knew exactly family left American Samoa and they lived at the school in Nua DELEGATION OF LOCAL WITNESSES SET TO TESTIFY where he wanted to celebrate. he never returned — until two (back then, they had living On a tiny island in the South weeks ago. His brother Mike quarters), and later relocated to by Sabrina Sinapati Pacific where he was born — graduated from Fia Iloa High Leone where Brian says he was Special to Samoa News American Samoa. School (which was closed and baptized. An oversight hearing on “Assessing Current Conditions and Brian, a Palagi man whose classes combined into Samoana His ‘bond’ to the island, Challenges at LBJ in American Samoa” will take place today in parents relocated to the terri- High School) in 1968 — the he said, was felt in the 1990s the nation’s capital. tory back in the 1960s, returned same year they moved back to when he went to get a passport Invited witnesses already in Washington DC to answer inqui- home to Long Beach, CA last the states, while brother Roy and was told by the US gov- ries are: Thomas Bussanich Director of the Budget Office of Friday after visiting his birth- was in the 11th grade (at the ernment that he needed a new Insular Affairs, Department of the Interior; Taufete’e John Fau- place, accompanied by his same school) and sister Teresa birth certificate and that he was muina CEO of Lyndon B. Johnson Tropical Medical Center; Dr. brother Mike. was attending Fia Iloa Elemen- an “American National.” “So, Reese Tuato’o LBJ’s Chief of Internal Medicine; Sandra King- It had been almost five tary School. from that time on, I felt more Young, Medicaid Director for the American Samoa Medicaid decades since Brian last felt “My brother [Mike] said he of a bond to the island,” Brian Agency; and Motusa Tuileama Nua, Director of the AS Depart- the warm air of the island. His misses the people and his friends said. “I have always wanted to ment of Health. story begins back in 1968, when the most from the island,” Brian come back because internally The oversight hearing, according to the hearing memo issued his parents moved half way said via email to Samoa News (most people over here don’t by Doug LaMalfa, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Indian, across the world after his father yesterday. “He said he also seem to understand this) Amer- Insular and Alaska Native Affairs, is to “evaluate and discuss the Roy was hired on contract to misses the Samoan life.” ican Samoa feels like home to current state of the healthcare facility and the quality of the treat- work as a school principal at In California, Brian works me even though I was only 17 ment accessible to American Samoans.” Nua Elementary School (now for the Long Beach Unified days when we left the island.” The hearing which will be streamed live at 10a.m. today on: known as Alataua Lua Elemen- School District at John Muir He continued, “My parents <https://naturalresources.house.gov> tary School). Academy, where he is a special took a good amount of pictures POLICY OVERVIEW Roy packed up his wife education teacher. of their life in American Samoa LBJ Medical Center is the only public health facility located in Josephine and their kids, and According to Brian, when and we would look over these American Samoa and it receives a significant portion (roughly 9%) landed in the territory in 1966. his family arrived in American pictures as a family. This place of its revenue through the DOI’s Office of Insular Affairs budget Two years later on July 10, Samoa, his brother Mark was appropriation, which is approximately $7,900,000 annually. (Continued on page 5) According to the memo, the LBJ Hospital “has struggled in recent years with maintaining infrastructure needs of the facility and providing an adequate level of healthcare services for its patients.” C M The memo notes that LBJ is the only hospital serving Amer- Y K ican Samoa and it provides medical care for approximately 55,000 residents of the territory, and also serves the neighboring islands of Aunuu, the Manu’a Islands, Rose Atoll, and Swains Island. The facility is funded primarily through grants provided by the USDOI, Office of Insular Affairs. Staffing at the hospital has traditionally been “very chal- lenging” and currently, there are only 65 active medical staff on hand to provide care for patients in various areas including internal medicine, pediatrics nephrology, radiology, and ophthal- mology, to name a few. “Conditions at the hospital are dire due to lack of adequate funding and a chronic backlog of infrastructure maintenance,” said the memo, adding that “the territory has always been chal- lenged with providing basic needs and services in healthcare, more so than the other territories.” Congress enacted legislation in 1996, directing a portion of mandatory Covenant Capital Improvement Program (CIP) funds to be used for Critical infrastructure in American Samoa and the On July 10, 1968, Brian Cruz Conboy was born at the LBJ Tropical Medical Center. Brian is development of a multi-year capital improvement plan, according being held by his mother Josephine who moved to the territory with her husband Roy and their chil- to the memo, which also states that in FY 2018, OIA awarded dren after Roy received a contract job to work as principal for Nua Elementary School in 1966. Brian approximately $9.5 million in CIP grants to ASG for projects des- returned to his birthplace two weeks ago, 49 years after he left. See story for full details. (Continued on page 11) [photo: courtesy] Page 2 samoa news, Tuesday, July 25, 2017 CDC report: Com- pared to other Pac Islanders, Samoans just aren’t as healthy RANKED HIGHEST IN DIABETES PREVALENCE, HYPERTENSION AND LOWER BACK PAIN Fili Sagapolutele Native Hawaiian (27.3%), Gua- Samoa News Correspondent manian or Chamorro (25.7%), Samoans living in the U.S. and Other Pacific Islander are less likely to have excellent (21.9%) adults; or very good health compared •Adults with lower back to Guamanians or Chamorro pain: 37.0% among Samoan persons and Native Hawaiians, adults, which was significantly according to some key findings higher than prevalence among in a health report released last Native Hawaiian (28.4%), Gua- Friday by the US Center for manian or Chamorro (23.6%), Disease Control and Preven- and Other Pacific Islander tion (CDC). The 99-page report (24.2%) adults; on the ‘Health Conditions and *Adults with any phys- Behaviors of Native Hawaiian ical difficulty: 26.7% among and Pacific Islander persons in Samoan adults, which was sig- the United States’ was based nificantly higher than preva- on data from interviews with lence among Native Hawaiian 11,085 people in 3,212 families (15.2%), Guamanian or Cham- in 2014. It’s the first national orro (12.6%), and Other Pacific look at the health of Native Islander (18.4%) adults; Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders The report cites other key (NHPI) as part of an effort findings (Samoa News is focusing to get better health data from on Samoans for this story): these populations. The report *The percentage of Samoan is to provide a resource to ser- persons with excellent or very vice providers, policy makers, good health (57.5%) was lower researchers and teachers, NHPI than but not significantly dif- community members and ferent from the percentages leaders, and all others interested among Other Pacific Islander in the health of the total NHPI (60.4%) and Native Hawaiian population. Among the results, (61.3%) persons, and lower summarized in the report, is than the percentage among that “Samoan adults were more Guamanian or Chamorro per- likely than Native Hawaiian sons (66.7%); and Guamanian or Chamorro *The percentage of Samoan adults to have lower back pain adults who had a healthy body and any physical difficulty, and weight was 12.7%, which they were less likely to have a was lower than the percent- healthy body weight.” ages among Native Hawaiian Of further interest is that (27.3%), Guamanian or Cham- smoking among the NHPI orro (25.7%), and Other Pacific community members was not Islander (21.9%) adults; significantly different in per- *Among Samoan adults, centage among each other. This the percentage who had hyper- was also the case with NHPI tension was 38.1%, which community members that par- was higher than the percent- ticipated in leisure-time aer- ages among Native Hawaiian obic and muscle-strengthening (27.4%) and Other Pacific activities.
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