Kokua Mau

Advance Care Planning with Hope Young
2023-04-12 17:00 - 19:30 (Pacific/Honolulu)
Our very own Hope Young, Advance Care Coordinator will be presenting about Advance Care Planning during the 6th session of “Learning from Dr. Mitsuo Aoki: Understanding and working with people with terminal illness” on April 12.

Introducing a video, discussion and teaching series focused on working with individuals with serious and terminal illness. The sessions are based on actual classes of Dr. Aoki teaching filmed in 1987 and two interviews of Dr. Aoki working with Roger who has been diagnosed with a terminal illness. Kōkua Mau will also present on advanced health care planning on April 12.

Course Objectives:

Explore and manage participant’s own awareness about death and dying and become more comfortable with assisting others during this time of life.

Implement various skills and methods used to help and support someone who is facing the end-of-life.

Identify the importance of rituals and traditions in the grief process.

Engage with the multi-disciplinary health care and/or community teams to identify methods and techniques to assist a person with accessing resources in order to live during their dying.

Regularly scheduled series is intended for professionals and health care support staff/volunteers. However, adult community family members are also welcomed to attend.

March 8, 15, 22, 29 and April 5, 12, 19, 26

5:00 to 7:30 PM HST

Register in advance, deadline: 03/06/2023

Our very own Hope Young, Advance Care Coordinator will be presenting about Advance Care Planning during the 6th session on April 12.

Attend one or all classes in person (limited to 30) or on zoom. All classes are free of charge. Donations are accepted

Regularly scheduled series is intended for professionals and health care support staff/volunteers. However, adult community family members are also welcomed to attend.

Various Continuing Education credits are offered. Please download the brochure for details.

Kokua Mau Meeting April 2023
2023-04-27 15:00 - 17:00
April 27 at the Kōkua Mau meeting for presentations by the Bereavement Network of Hawaii. Sara May Colon, Felicia Marquez-Wong and others will be presenting resources available to help professionals and the public and will include several of the wonderful, local organizations that support our community.

Please join us for our Virtual Monthly Meeting on zoom, to learn, laugh, mingle and network. Subscribe to our eNewsletter for the most up-to-date information and zoom log-ins for the specific month. As the date draws close and the speakers or topics are confirmed we will post it here.

A recording of many of our meetings are available on our YouTube channel, in case you might have missed it.

Palliative Pupus May 2023
2023-05-17 17:15 - 19:00
This month we’ll hear about: The theme and presenters for each ‘Palliative Pupus’ is announced one to two weeks prior to the meeting date via our Kōkua Mau eNewsletter.

We will continue to meet virtually on zoom in 2023

How does Palliative Pupus work?

The model is an informal, interactive, collegial, pau hana to present and discuss challenging cases as a group. Palliative Pupus is for clinicians in a variety of fields: doctors, nurses, social workers, chaplains.

What is Palliative Pupus?

Our first successful Palliative Pupus meeting was held November 17, 2010 and has since become a bi-monthly event every third Wednesday of the month. (Except November due to Thanksgiving)

If you are not receiving our eNewsletter yet, please subscribe here and we will keep you informed.

Canceled Kokua Mau Meeting May 2023
2023-05-25 15:00 - 17:00
Our meeting for May 25, 2023 is canceled. See you in June!

Please join us for our Virtual Monthly Meeting on zoom, to learn, laugh, mingle and network. Subscribe to our eNewsletter for the most up-to-date information and zoom log-ins for the specific month. As the date draws close and the speakers or topics are confirmed we will post it here.

A recording of many of our meetings are available on our YouTube channel, in case you might have missed it.

Quick overview: YouTube Channel additions

The good, the bad, and the uncertain in Hawaii’s proposed Uniform Health Care Decisions Act

An Ecosystem of Advance Care Planning with Jessica Zan

Preparing Healthcare Providers for Age-Friendly Patient Empowerment

CAPC’s Serious Illness Scorecard How is Hawai’i doing?

What Matters to Older NativeHawaiians? A Qualitative Study of Care Preferences

What is a Death Doula?

Advance Care Planning for Native Hawaiian Kūpuna with Puni Kekauoha

Innovations in Advance Care Planning

Kōkua Mauʻs Palliative Care Awareness Committee

Palliative Care PR: Exploring new message strategies

2023 ACT Index Report and what this data means for Hawaii

Grieving Lahaina: Past and Present

Radical Death Studies & the Association for Death Education and Counseling

Highlights Kōkua Mau Activities 2023

Quick overview Kōkua Mau Website

Nechama: the Jewish Path of Comfort at the End of Life

Updates from Maui Hospice about the fires and the community response

What is the Kūpuna Collective?

Improved Hawaii POLST Form 2023 step-by-step essentials with Dr. Daniel Fischberg

Bereavement Network of Hawaii – What is it?

Community Health Workers and how they can help in serious illness care

Palliative Care Nursing Education at Chaminade University of Honolulu

Compassionate Care and Evidence-Based Practice: Is it possible for them to co-exist?

Ohana Pacific Medical a Medical Clinic in Your Home

Advance Care Planning Billing and Coding for Billing Clinicians

Psychedelic Medicine and Palliative Care: An exploration of old and ancient therapies to address twenty-first century clinical challenges

A Caregivers Journey with Palliative Care in 3 minutes

Prognostication and Palliative Care

LymphaCare Hawaii advocates for cancer survivors who develop lymphedema

Palliative Care – Extra Support for People with Cancer

A Caregivers Journey with Palliative Care

VA Resources for Seriously Ill Veterans in Hawaii

Veterans Benefits and Entitlements

Palliative Care Awareness Campaign on Instagram in Hawaii

Advance Care Planning Innovations in Community Outreach in Hawaii

Update on POLST nationally, new documents and the national POLST Form

An Update on Hawaii’s Our Care Our Choice Act

Innovations in Palliative Care

Help with stress and and anxiety in COVID-19 times – Thought Field Therapy (TFT)

Funerals and Memorials in the times of COVID-19

Mapping Palliative Care in the State of Hawaii

Palliative Care Summit in Hawaii 2020

Advance Care Planning in the time of COVID-19 in Hawaii

Questions about Medicare? – The ABCD’s of Medicare explained

How to Help Your Older Parent

Kokua Mau Meeting POLST Improvements
2023-06-29 15:00 - 17:00
Please notice June has 5 Thursdays and we meet on the last Thursday of the month

We are very pleased to announce that our Hawaiʻi POLST form is getting some improvements.

With input from local key informants and reviewing the national POLST form and changes made in other states, the Statewide POLST Task Force agreed on some improvements to our Hawaiʻi POLST Form.

Please join us at the June 29 Kōkua Mau meeting at 3pm to learn about the changes.

Speakers:

Dr. Daniel Fischberg – Improvements to the POLST form

Dr. Libby Char – POLST and First Responders

Dr. Sarah Racsa – POLST and out-of-hospital situations

Q&A

The new form will be up on the website by June 29.

Register in advance for the June monthly meeting. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email with details on how to join the zoom meeting.

Remember that current POLST forms are still valid and we encourage you to use the newest version when it is ready. To read more about POLST visit our website at: kokuamau.org/polst

To help educate the community about these changes, we look to you for help. We will be uploading the recording of the session to our website, which you can share with colleagues. If you would like a short article for an in-house newsletter to highlight the changes and the importance of POLST, please let us know.

A recording of many of our meetings are available on our YouTube channel, in case you might have missed it.

Quick overview: YouTube Channel

The good, the bad, and the uncertain in Hawaii’s proposed Uniform Health Care Decisions Act

An Ecosystem of Advance Care Planning with Jessica Zan

Preparing Healthcare Providers for Age-Friendly Patient Empowerment

CAPC’s Serious Illness Scorecard How is Hawai’i doing?

What Matters to Older NativeHawaiians? A Qualitative Study of Care Preferences

What is a Death Doula?

Advance Care Planning for Native Hawaiian Kūpuna with Puni Kekauoha

Innovations in Advance Care Planning

Kōkua Mauʻs Palliative Care Awareness Committee

Palliative Care PR: Exploring new message strategies

2023 ACT Index Report and what this data means for Hawaii

Grieving Lahaina: Past and Present

Radical Death Studies & the Association for Death Education and Counseling

Highlights Kōkua Mau Activities 2023

Quick overview Kōkua Mau Website

Nechama: the Jewish Path of Comfort at the End of Life

Updates from Maui Hospice about the fires and the community response

What is the Kūpuna Collective?

Improved Hawaii POLST Form 2023 step-by-step essentials with Dr. Daniel Fischberg

Bereavement Network of Hawaii – What is it?

Community Health Workers and how they can help in serious illness care

Palliative Care Nursing Education at Chaminade University of Honolulu

Compassionate Care and Evidence-Based Practice: Is it possible for them to co-exist?

Ohana Pacific Medical a Medical Clinic in Your Home

Advance Care Planning Billing and Coding for Billing Clinicians

Psychedelic Medicine and Palliative Care: An exploration of old and ancient therapies to address twenty-first century clinical challenges

A Caregivers Journey with Palliative Care in 3 minutes

Prognostication and Palliative Care

LymphaCare Hawaii advocates for cancer survivors who develop lymphedema

Palliative Care – Extra Support for People with Cancer

A Caregivers Journey with Palliative Care

VA Resources for Seriously Ill Veterans in Hawaii

Veterans Benefits and Entitlements

Palliative Care Awareness Campaign on Instagram in Hawaii

Advance Care Planning Innovations in Community Outreach in Hawaii

Update on POLST nationally, new documents and the national POLST Form

An Update on Hawaii’s Our Care Our Choice Act

Innovations in Palliative Care

Help with stress and and anxiety in COVID-19 times – Thought Field Therapy (TFT)

Funerals and Memorials in the times of COVID-19

Mapping Palliative Care in the State of Hawaii

Palliative Care Summit in Hawaii 2020

Advance Care Planning in the time of COVID-19 in Hawaii

Questions about Medicare? – The ABCD’s of Medicare explained

How to Help Your Older Parent

HPH Advance Care Planning Class July 2023
2023-07-19 12:00 - 16:00
This class is offered for physicians, nurses, social workers and other clinicians. It promotes ACP introductions and will review key elements and processes related to ACP, Advance Directives and POLST in the clinic.

Course Objectives:

Apply ACP resources to promote advance care planning discussions.

Promote patients’ knowledge of advance directives including healthcare power of attorney designation.

Identify the differences between an Advance Directive and Provider Order for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) and implement correct documentation of these documents.

Implement and standardize ACP processes.

Identify the Hawai‘i requirements of Medical Aid in Dying, Our Care, Our Choice Act.

Engage the multi-disciplinary team to patient-centered discussion addressing advance care planning.

Wed July 19Noon to 4 PM

First Insurance Center (FIC)862 South Beretania Street, FIC 970Honolulu

Other dates: Wed 10/18, Wed, 12/6

Registration: HPH Employees: Manager’s Approval is required prior to registering AND register online through the HPH Learning Center (HLC). Type in the Catalog: ACP; Select Course: HPH – Advance Care Planning (ACP) Class.

Non-HPH Participants: Register by emailing Michelle Cantillo, RN, HPH ACP Coordinator at michelle.cantillo@hawaiipacifichealth.org.

Palliative Pupus July 2023
2023-07-19 17:15 - 19:00
This month we’ll hear about: The theme and presenters for each ‘Palliative Pupus’ is announced one to two weeks prior to the meeting date via our Kōkua Mau eNewsletter.

We will continue to meet virtually on zoom in 2023

This month’s case involves the withdrawl of a vent at home and the unique challenges and polices to help patients die at home with their loved ones.

How does Palliative Pupus work?

The model is an informal, interactive, collegial, pau hana to present and discuss challenging cases as a group. Palliative Pupus is for clinicians in a variety of fields: doctors, nurses, social workers, chaplains.

What is Palliative Pupus?

Our first successful Palliative Pupus meeting was held November 17, 2010 and has since become a bi-monthly event every third Wednesday of the month. (Except November due to Thanksgiving)

If you are not receiving our eNewsletter yet, please subscribe here and we will keep you informed.

Palliative Pupus Sept 2023
2023-09-20 17:15 - 19:00
You are invited to join us for Palliative Pupus on zoom, our exciting local networking and clinical education opportunity. If you are involved with palliative care cases or would like to learn what palliative care actually is, you are invited.

Wed. Sept 205:15 pm – 7:00 pm

Kokua Mau Meeting Sept 2023
2023-09-28 15:00 - 17:00
Please join us for our Virtual Monthly Meeting on zoom, to learn, laugh, mingle and network.

September 28 at our Kōkua Mau meeting when we will hear updates from Hospice Maui from Melanie Dwyer and about the amazing work of the Kupuna Collective.

Please join us for a chance to hear updates and network. We will be starting with updates from Hospice Maui. Melanie Dwyer, CEO, will be sharing about their experiences in the fire and its aftermath including their plans for the future.

Come hear more about the Kūpuna Collective and the history of what this group did to make sure elders weren’t left behind during the pandemic, what they do now to convene a diversity of organizers across the aging network, and some ongoing collective efforts aimed at ensuring Hawai‘i is a place where our elders not just survive but flourish.

Lindsey Ilagan, Program Manager for Kūpuna Initiatives at the Hawai‘i Public Health Institute. She is a graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Chapman University, and Kamehameha Schools. She values working with community partners to address drivers of health inequity, particularly among Kānaka ʻŌiwi.

Kiara Bacasen is an AmeriCorps VISTA working for the Kūpuna Collective. She is from Baguio Philippines and San Diego California, and is a graduate of Stanford University. Community based organizing has always been at the core of what she does and she takes any chance to uplift community efforts and community voices wherever they need to go.

Thur Sept 293 – 4:30 pm

Subscribe to our eNewsletter for the most up-to-date information and zoom log-ins. A recording of many of our meetings are available on our YouTube channel, in case you might have missed it.

Advance Directives and Provider Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) Facilitator Training
2023-11-11 08:00 - 16:30
This training is offered for nurses, physicians, social workers and other clinicians and focuses on communication skills to improve ACP discussions. The class will review key elements and processes related to ACP, advance directives and POLST development.Course Objectives:

Apply advance care planning resources to promote ACP discussions

Engage the multi-disciplinary team to patient-centered discussion addressing advance care planning

Promote patients’ knowledge of advance directives including health care power of attorney designation

Implement correct documentation of POLST-CPR, DNAR, full and limited treatment, time-limited trials and comfort care

Promote correct process of ACP documents-access and utilization in your organization

Identify end-of-life options including Hawai‘i requirements on Medical Aid in Dying, Our Care, Our Choice Act

First Insurance Center (FIC) 862 South Beretania StreetHonolulu, HI0800-1630

For CE information please download the PDF flyer

Alternate dates: Aug– Wed 8/2/2023 FIC 970, Nov – Tue 11/7/2023 FIC 970

Registration: HPH employees: Manager’s approval is required prior to registering AND register online through HPH Learning Center (HLC). Type in catalog: Advance Care Planning or POLST; Select course: HPH – Advance Care Planning, Advance Directives and Facilitator Certification.

Register online: https://www.hawaiipacifichealth.org/health-wellness/continuing-education/Contact Michelle Cantillo, RN, HPH ACP Coordinator at 808-535-7874 or via email michelle.cantillo@hawaiipacifichealth.org for any questions.

Palliative Pupus 2024
2024-01-17 17:15 - 19:00
Our exciting local bi-monthly networking and clinical education opportunity on zoom. Come participate in an interactive interdisciplinary story from the cutting edge of hospice and palliative care and mingle with colleagues. If you are involved with palliative care cases, you are invited. Please tell your colleagues and friends.

The topic and zoom registration link will be announced in our January 2024 newsletter.

Kokua Mau Meeting January 2024
2024-01-25 15:00 - 17:00
The topic is Palliative Care. We want your feedback how to best message palliative care to your patients, clients and loved ones.

﻿We have some messaging examples and short stories to run by you, with break out rooms for smaller discussions. Your feedback will help determine palliative care messaging that works for Hawaiʻi.

Please join us for our Virtual Monthly Meeting on zoom, to learn, laugh, mingle and network. Subscribe to our eNewsletter for the most up-to-date information and zoom log-ins. A recording of many of our meetings are available on our YouTube channel, in case you might have missed it.

Thursday of the month* from 3 to 5 pm (on zoom)

Each month we have updates about events in the community and one or more guest speakers.

Meetings are open to all.

Each month’s topic is announced in our eNewsletter

(No) Kokua Mau Monthly Meeting Feb 2024
2024-02-29 15:00 - 17:00
We will have no Kōkua Mau Meeting in February

Please join us for our Virtual Monthly Meeting on zoom, to learn, laugh, mingle and network. Subscribe to our eNewsletter for the most up-to-date information and zoom log-ins. A recording of many of our meetings are available on our YouTube channel, in case you might have missed it.

Thursday of the month* from 3 to 5 pm (on zoom)

Each month we have updates about events in the community and one or more guest speakers.

Meetings are open to all.

Each month’s topic is announced in our eNewsletter

Palliative Pupus March 2023 hybrid
2024-03-20 17:15 - 18:30
We’d like to invite you to our in person & virtual Palliative Pupus

In March 2023 get together in person again as well!

In March 2024 we switch to hybrid, meaning we will meet in person at Queen’s Conference Center and Zoom for everybody who can not join us physically. After that we will alternate bi-monthly to be on Zoom only and hybrid (in person and zoom).

Our exciting local bi-monthly networking and clinical education opportunity on zoom and starting this month in person again as well. Come participate in an interactive interdisciplinary story from the cutting edge of hospice and palliative care and mingle with colleagues from all over the islands on zoom. If you are involved with palliative care cases, you are invited. Please tell your colleagues and friends.

The topic and zoom registration link will be announced in our March 2024 newsletter prior to the meeting.

Palliative Pupus meets in Room 200 on the second floor of the Queen’s Conference Center

Each meeting’s topic is announced in a Kōkua Mau reminder eNewsletter one week prior to the event

More on parking near QCC

$5 validated parking at the QCC. Please make sure you get your sticker.

Park for free at the municipal lot on South Beretania (see map below) or you can feed the meter machine across the street at the DOH (which now has a two hour maximum enforced 24 hours).

http://goo.gl/maps/PToQ5

Kokua Mau Monthly Meeting March 2024
2024-03-28 14:00 - 16:00
Please join us for our Virtual Monthly Meeting on zoom, to learn, laugh, mingle and network.

Please note that we are meeting at 2pm this month for our presenters on EST

And on March 28, we will have a presentation by the Collective for Radical Death Studies and Association for Death Education and Counseling who approached us to learn more about Hawaiʻi and our unique approach to death, grief, loss and remembrance.

Subscribe to our eNewsletter for the most up-to-date information and zoom log-ins. A recording of many of our meetings are available on our YouTube channel, in case you might have missed it.

Thursday of the month* from 3 to 5 pm (on zoom)

Each month we have updates about events in the community and one or more guest speakers.

Meetings are open to all.

Each month’s topic is announced in our eNewsletter

Palliative Pupus May 2023
2024-05-15 17:15 - 18:30
We’d like to invite you to our virtual only Palliative Pupus in May

Palliative Pupus is a unique opportunity to hear about a palliative care case. It is good for palliative care practitioners to learn and increase skills. It is also an excellent opportunity to learn about what palliative care really is and what our amazing colleagues actually do. Cases usually involve a range of practitioners including doctor, nurse, chaplain and social workers and cover physical, emotion and spiritual issues.

We are constantly impressed by how our colleagues go the extra mile to care for patients and families so please come to learn and invite colleagues. Especially as we are building the capacity to provide palliative care across the state, this is an excellent opportunity.

This month: Join us for a discussion about a young patient who benefited from home-based and inpatient palliative care as she initially beat the odds with cutting edge oncologic therapy prior to fulfilling her end-of-life wishes.

We will continue to meet virtually on zoom in 2024. In addition we meet every second month in person at the QCC and offer a hybrid zoom format. To include neighbor islands we will remain on zoom in a hybrid format.

The topic and zoom registration link will be announced in our 2024 newsletter prior to the meeting.

Palliative Pupus July 2023 hybrid
2024-07-17 17:15 - 18:30
In July 2023 get together in person again as well!

In July: Kaiser will be presenting and we will hear how a palliative care team worked to resolve conflicts over goals of care for a patient with a poor prognosis and without a designated decision-maker.

Since March 2024 we switched to hybrid, meaning we will meet in person at Queen’s Conference Center and Zoom for everybody who can not join us physically. We alternate bi-monthly to be on Zoom only and hybrid (in person and zoom).

Our exciting local bi-monthly networking and clinical education opportunity on zoom and starting this month in person again as well. Come participate in an interactive interdisciplinary story from the cutting edge of hospice and palliative care and mingle with colleagues from all over the islands on zoom. If you are involved with palliative care cases, you are invited. Please tell your colleagues and friends.

The topic and zoom registration link will be announced in our July 2024 newsletter prior to the meeting.

Palliative Pupus meets in Room 200 on the second floor of the Queen’s Conference Center

Each meeting’s topic is announced in a Kōkua Mau reminder eNewsletter one week prior to the event

More on parking near QCC

Park for free at the municipal lot on South Beretania (see map below) or you can feed the meter machine across the street at the DOH (which now has a two hour maximum enforced 24 hours).

http://goo.gl/maps/PToQ5

Palliative Pupus Sept 2024
2024-09-18 05:15 - 18:30
We’d like to invite you to our virtual Palliative Pupus

In September 2024 we are zoom only.

This month Hospice Maui will present a recent pediatric case that involved a complicated medical transport discharge plan from Kaiser Moanalua NICU to home on Maui and care coordination with the pediatric palliative team on Oʻahu.

Our exciting local bi-monthly networking and clinical education opportunity on zoom. Come participate in an interactive interdisciplinary story from the cutting edge of hospice and palliative care and mingle with colleagues from all over the islands on zoom. If you are involved with palliative care cases, you are invited. Please tell your colleagues and friends.

We will continue to meet virtually on zoom in 2024. In addition we meet every second month in person at the QCC and offer a hybrid zoom format. To include neighbor islands we will remain on zoom in a hybrid format.

The topic and zoom registration link will be announced in our September newsletter prior to the meeting.

Palliative Pupus Nov 2024
2024-11-20 17:15 - 18:30 | The Queens Conference Center (QCC) Auditorium, 510 South Beretania Street, Honolulu, HI, 96813, United States
We’d like to invite you to our virtual and in person Palliative Pupus

We’d like to invite you to our hybrid Palliative Pupus.

We will be presenting a complex case of a recent patient who was admitted to hospice but subsequently revoked services. There are several facets of this case that complicated his care, particularly his desire to pursue hospice while his family hesitated to accept end-of-life care. All are welcome as we discuss the case and learn how others address such challenging cases.

We will meeting in person at Queen’s Conference Center (OCC) again. We hope you will join us to see colleagues in person and eat real pupus. Please bring something to share!!

Validated parking for the Miller St. Parking lot (Miller only) at the QCC front desk. For those who cannot attend in person, see below for registration information.

Please see our website for QCC and parking information.

Wed Nov 20, 20245:15 -6:30 PM HSTQueen’s Conference Center & zoom

Palliative Pupus is a unique opportunity to hear about a palliative care case. It is good for palliative care practitioners to learn and increase skills. It is also an excellent opportunity to learn about what palliative care really is and what our amazing colleagues actually do. Cases usually involve a range of practitioners including doctor, nurse, chaplain and social workers and cover physical, emotion and spiritual issues.

The topic and zoom registration link will be announced in our November 2024 newsletter prior to the meeting.
