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SUMMARY:Kokua Mau Monthly Meeting Feb 2025
DESCRIPTION:Thur 2/27 Kōkua Mau Meeting – What Matters to Native Hawaiian Elders: Care Preferences\n\n\n\nPlease join the first 2025 Kōkua Mau meeting to get updates and to hear about a recent study on Native Hawaii Kūpuna Care preferences led by the lead author UH Social Work Asst. Professor Miquela Ibrao. \n\n\n\nA study by the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa’s Hā Kūpuna – National Resource Center for Native Hawaiian Elders has examined the end-of-life care preferences of Native Hawaiian kūpuna (Elders). Led by Laguna Pueblo and Quechan woman\, Assistant Professor Miquela Ibrao\, researchers from UH and ALU LIKE\, Inc. identified culturally specific approaches to support kūpuna values in healthcare. \n\n\n\n“Death is not an end but a transition that honors relationality\, ancestors and the land\,’ Assistant Professor Ibrao said. “Decolonizing end-of-life care means respecting cultural beliefs and embracing Indigenous wisdom about healing and living well.” The study\, published in the Journal of Palliative Medicine\, is based on interviews with 20 kūpuna aged 60 and over from rural areas across Hawaiʻi. It highlights four key themes. \n\n\n\n\nCultural perspectives on death: Kūpuna view death as a transition that acknowledges relationships with ancestors and the land.\n\n\n\nTraditional healing practices: Lāʻau lapaʻau (herbal medicine) and lomilomi (massage) are essential aspects of care.\n\n\n\nFamily-centered decision-making: ʻOhana (family) plays a central role in healthcare choices\, with deceased ancestors and the ʻāina (land) seen as sources of guidance and healing.\n\n\n\nPreference for home-based care: Many kūpuna wish to age and die at home but fear burdening their families\, with limited long-term care options in rural areas adding to the challenge.\n\n\n\n\nThur Feb 273-4:30pm  \n\n\n\n\nRegister in advance for this meeting\n\n\n\nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease 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. \n\n\n\nEach month’s topic is announced in our eNewsletter \n\n\n\nEach month we have updates about events in the community and one or more guest speakers. \n\n\n\n*Please note that there are always months with five Thursdays. The meeting is on that last (5th) Thursday of that month (except November & December when we have a combined meeting after Thanksgiving).
URL:https://kokuamau.org/event/20759/
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DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Honolulu:20250313T120000
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SUMMARY:Overview of the Palliative Care Services Benefit - Webinar 1
DESCRIPTION:This year\, Hawaii became the first state in the nation to offer community-based palliative care for Medicaid (Med-QUEST) beneficiaries.  \n\n\n\nPalliative care is now available as soon as a patient is diagnosed with a serious illness as a covered preventative benefit. It is available for patients who may be receiving curative treatments but need the extra support that a palliative care team can provide. (Click here for official documents and a 3-page summary.)  \n\n\n\nThrough a grant from Hui Pohala\, Kōkua Mau has produced a series of four webinars to help healthcare professionals and members of managed care plans optimize this valuable\, new benefit.  \n\n\n\n\nRecordings are currently available on YouTube\, please visit our webpage for links. \n\n\n\n\nTo learn more about palliative care\, visit our resources.  \n\n\n\nWebinar #1: \n\n\n\nOverview of the Palliative Care Services BenefitThur\, March 13\, 2025Noon to 1 pm HST \n\n\n\nIn this first webinar\, you’ll learn about what is included in the Med-QUEST benefit\, including patient eligibility requirements\, assessments and services and the benefits of palliative care from an actual case study. Ideal for healthcare professionals who want to learn more about the new benefit and how they can make referrals to help their patients.  \n\n\n\nSpeakers: \n\n\n\nDr. Daniel Fischberg has served as the Medical Director of the Pain and Palliative Care Department at The Queen’s Medical Center for more than 20 years and is Chief of the Division of Palliative Medicine and Professor of Geriatric Medicine at the John A. Burns School of Medicine.  \n\n\n\nTorrie Fields\, MPH\, CEO of TFA Analytics\, was instrumental in the creation of the benefit and is now working on implementation. She serves as strategic advisor to the Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC)\, the Coalition to Transform Advanced Care (C-TAC)\, and the Hawaii Department of Human Services\, Med-QUEST Division.  \n\n\n\nA 45-minute presentation will be followed by a live\, interactive 15-minute Q&A session. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOther Upcoming Webinars \n\n\n\nWatch for more information on these upcoming webinars which will be held every week at noon throughout March and beginning of April. Please register for each webinar separately.  \n\n\n\nWebinar #2: \n\n\n\nCare Coordination under the Community-based Palliative Care BenefitThur March 20\, 2025Noon – 1 pm \n\n\n\nLearn who can provide palliative care\, reimbursement codes\, and more. \n\n\n\nWebinar #3:\n\n\n\nPediatric Palliative Care BenefitTuesday March 25\, 2025Noon – 1 pm \n\n\n\nFind out what is covered in this palliative care benefit for children. \n\n\n\nWebinar #4: \n\n\n\nHow the New Benefit Helps You and Your FamilyThur April 3\, 2025Noon – 1pm \n\n\n\nMed-QUEST beneficiaries and those who serve them will gain practical insights into this benefit in terms that are easy to understand. The session is for the public and all are welcome.  \n\n\n\nFor questions about the webinar series\, please contact info@kokuamau.org
URL:https://kokuamau.org/event/overview-of-the-palliative-care-services-benefit-webinar/
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DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Honolulu:20250319T171500
DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Honolulu:20250319T183000
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SUMMARY:Palliative Pupus March 2025
DESCRIPTION:We’d like to invite you to our virtual and hybrid Palliative Pupus.  \n\n\n\nThis month’s topic: This complex case involves a compassionate extubation for a long-term care patient that was residing in a nursing facility and shows how the team helps a patient and family navigate the challenges that arise. \n\n\n\nOur 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.  \n\n\n\nAt the March meeting we also meet in person at the QCC\, offering a hybrid format\, to include neighbor islands and others on zoom. If you join us at the in person meetings you will enjoy actual pupus. \n\n\n\nQueen’s Conference Center for Palliative Pupus. \n\n\n\nThe Queens Conference Center (QCC) – Room 200510 S. Beretania StreetHonolulu\, HI 96813 \n\n\n\nPlease join us bi-monthly on the: \n\n\n\n\nPalliative Pupus meets in Room 200 on the second floor of the Queen’s Conference Center\n\n\n\nEach meeting’s topic is announced in a Kōkua Mau reminder eNewsletter one week prior to the event\n\n\n\n\n\nPark for free at the municipal Civic Center parking lot on South Beretania after 4 PM (see map below)\n\n\n\nPark in the Queen’s Miller parking lot for validated parking (pricey without the sticker). See map.\n\n\n\nAcross the street at the DOH now has a two hour maximum enforced 24 hours (gone are the good old days).\n\n\n\nMore on parking near QCC\n\n\n\n\nHow does Palliative Pupus work?\n\n\n\nThe theme and presenters for each ‘Palliative Pupus’ is announced one to two weeks prior to the meeting date via our Kōkua Mau eNewsletter. If you are not receiving our eNewsletter yet\, please subscribe here and we will keep you informed. \n\n\n\nWhat is Palliative Pupus?\n\n\n\nOur 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) \n\n\n\nThe 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. \n\n\n\nhttp://goo.gl/maps/PToQ5
URL:https://kokuamau.org/event/palliative-pupus-march-2025/
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DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Honolulu:20250320T120000
DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Honolulu:20250320T130000
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SUMMARY:Care Coordination under the Med-QUEST Community Palliative Care Benefit - Webinar 2
DESCRIPTION:Please register for each webinar separately. \n\n\n\n\nWebinar #2: \n\n\n\nCare Coordination under the Med-QUEST Community Palliative Care BenefitThur March 20\, 2025Noon – 1 pm\n\n\n\nIn this second webinar\, you’ll learn about Med-QUEST benefit and eligibility criteria with qualifying conditions\, assessment tools and services provided from the perspective of a provider\, with a case study. In the second part Reimbursement Under the Community Palliative Care Benefit you will learn about the road map and the nuts and bolts of qualifying conditions\, covered services\, contracting requirements and the billing codes of the reimbursement process. \n\n\n\nSpeakers:  \n\n\n\nToby Smith Medical Director for Supportive Care and Medical Management at HMSA\, Geriatrician and Palliative Care Physician in skilled nursing facilities in Hawaiʻi. Dr. Smith is ABIM board certified in Geriatrics\, Hospice and Palliative Medicine and Internal Medicine. \n\n\n\nTorrie Fields\, MPH\, CEO of TFA Analytics\, was instrumental in the creation of the benefit and is now working on implementation. She serves as strategic advisor to the Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC)\, the Coalition to Transform Advanced Care (C-TAC)\, and the Hawaiʻi Department of Human Services\, Med-QUEST Division. \n\n\n\nA 45-minute presentation will be followed by a live\, interactive 15-minute Q&A session. \n\n\n\nLearn who can provide palliative care\, reimbursement codes\, and requirements. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWebinar #3:\n\n\n\nThe Pediatric Med-QUEST Community Palliative Care BenefitTuesday March 25\, 2025Noon – 1 pm \n\n\n\nFind out what is covered in this palliative care benefit for children. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWebinar #4: \n\n\n\nHow the New Med-QUEST Community Palliative Care Benefit Helps You and Your FamilyThur April 3\, 2025Noon – 1pm \n\n\n\nMed-QUEST beneficiaries and those who serve them will gain practical insights into this benefit in terms that are easy to understand. The session is for the public and all are welcome.  \n\n\n\nFor questions about the webinar series\, please contact us.
URL:https://kokuamau.org/event/care-coordination-under-the-med-quest-community-palliative-care-benefit-webinar/
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DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Honolulu:20250323T150000
DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Honolulu:20250323T163000
DTSTAMP:20260403T093007
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SUMMARY:Finding Wholeness in Living and Dying: Providing Care and Comfort in the Jewish Community
DESCRIPTION:We’re excited to have author and senior educator Rick Light coming to share his wisdom with us! Please join us to explore the unexpected depth of Jewish traditions around the end of life\, and come learn about: \n\n\n\n\nthe richness and beauty of Jewish end-of-life customs\, rituals\, and practices\n\n\n\nwhat caring for the dead teaches about living\n\n\n\nand more…\n\n\n\n\nAll are welcome! This workshop is free of charge. \n\n\n\nSun Mar 23\, 20253-4:30 pmTemple Emanu-El2550 Pali Hwy. Nuʻuanu \n\n\n\n\nTo join us online\, watch the livestream at: www.shaloha.com on the 23rd around 3 PM. \n\n\n\nOn the temple’s website you might see a “view here” link to the templeʻs livestream of the day. But this link will only ʻhotʻ less than half hour before the program begins on the 23rd. You may have to click around a bit to find the link on the sliding menu. (This is a livestream on the day it happens and there is no registration required for it\, since it is available as soon as it goes ʻliveʻ.)\n\n\n\nDownload the flyer\n\n\n\n\nRSVP info@kokuamau.org so we can get a headcount for handouts \n\n\n\nRick Light has been teaching about Jewish death practices for almost three decades\, showing how respect is woven throughout Jewish end-of-life rituals\, enriching how we live. He started a Chevrah Kadisha in 1996 and led it for 18 years. Along the way he became an instructor for the Gamliel Institute and has published seven books\, including a highly praised Passover Haggadah\, and four books on Jewish death practices\, one of which won a Nautilus Book Award.  \n\n\n\nRick is currently on the Board of Directors for the Ben Zakkai Institute\, and he is on staff at JADE (the Jewish Association for Death Education)\, where he is writing curricula for webinars and classes. Rick was also the designer of the popular educational Hineni tool. Learn about Rick\, his passions\, and his books at richardalight.com\, benzakkai.org\, and jadeinfo.org . \n\n\n\nSponsored by: Chevra Kadisha Kavod of Oahu\, Temple Emanu-El\, Kōkua Mau\, Mālama Ola and Navian.
URL:https://kokuamau.org/event/finding-wholeness-in-living-and-dying-providing-care-and-comfort-in-the-jewish-community/
LOCATION:Temple Emanu-El\, 2550 Pali Hwy\, Honolulu\, HI\, 96817\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Honolulu:20250325T120000
DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Honolulu:20250325T130000
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SUMMARY:The Pediatric Med-Quest Community Palliative Care Benefit - Webinar 3
DESCRIPTION:This year (2025)\, Hawaii became the first state in the nation to offer community-based palliative care for Medicaid (Med-QUEST) beneficiaries. \n\n\n\nPalliative care is now available as soon as a patient is diagnosed with a serious illness as a covered preventative benefit. It is available for patients who may be receiving curative treatments but need the extra support that a palliative care team can provide. (Click here for official documents and a 3-page summary.) \n\n\n\nThrough a grant from Hui Pohala\, Kōkua Mau has produced a series of four webinars to help healthcare professionals and members of managed care plans optimize this valuable\, new benefit. \n\n\n\nPlease help us spread the word and share this announcement with colleagues. To learn more about palliative care\, visit our Palliative Care pages.  \n\n\n\n\nPlease register for each webinar separately. \n\n\n\n\nWebinar #3:\n\n\n\nPediatric Palliative Care BenefitTuesday March 25\, 2025Noon – 1 pm \n\n\n\nFind out what is covered in this palliative care benefit for children. A 45-minute presentation will be followed by a live\, interactive 15-minute Q&A session. \n\n\n\nSpeakers:\n\n\n\nJasmin Jensen\, MD is board certified in hospice and palliative care physician and pediatric oncologist.  She has been a member of the medical team at Kapiʻolani medical center for over ten years providing care for patients with complex\, chronic\, and often life limiting conditions.  One of her goals has been to increase access to pediatric palliative care and hospice services for patients and families residing on our neighboring islands.  She works closely with community-based hospice agencies throughout the state to ensure that kids and families have support in their own communities to help them navigate the unimaginable challenges they face. \n\n\n\nCurtis Thoma\, MD. completed a combined residency in both internal medicine and pediatrics and served as pediatric chief resident.  During his clinical career he has worked with underserved populations at community health centers in Hawaiʻi.  He currently serves as Hawaiʻi Medicaid (Med-QUEST) Medical Director.   \n\n\n\nTorrie Fields\, MPH\, CEO of TFA Analytics\, was instrumental in the creation of the benefit and is now working on implementation. She serves as strategic advisor to the Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC)\, the Coalition to Transform Advanced Care (C-TAC)\, and the Hawaiʻi Department of Human Services\, Med-QUEST Division.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWebinar #4: \n\n\n\nHow the New Benefit Helps You and Your FamilyThur April 3\, 2025Noon – 1pm \n\n\n\nJoin us to learn more about this innovative Community Palliative Care Benefit that increases the care and support available for people with serious illness.  \n\n\n\nThe webinar will help people with Med-QUEST and those who care for them learn about what palliative care is\, who qualifies for the benefit and how to access it in terms that are easy to understand. The session is for the public and all are welcome. \n\n\n\nSpeakers: \n\n\n\nDr. Daniel Fischberg has served as the Medical Director of the Pain and Palliative Care Department at The Queen’s Medical Center for more than 20 years and is Chief of the Division of Palliative Medicine and Professor of Geriatric Medicine at the John A. Burns School of Medicine.  \n\n\n\nAnita Jewell\, RN.  Anita Jewell’s nursing career spans 40+ years. In 1984 a 2-week vacation in Hawaiʻi turned into a permanent move after acquiring a nursing position at the Queen’s Medical Center. After 15 years at QMC’s Cardiovascular ICU\, she spent the next 20 years navigating the realms of Case Management\, Administration and Population Management. The combination of clinical and administrative experiences has led to unique opportunities to participate in community projects dealing with population health\, health management\, access to care and transitions of care. \n\n\n\nHope Young is the Advance Care Planning Coordinator for Kōkua Mau. Hope joined Kōkua Mau in 2017 and is a founding member of the Palliative Care Awareness Committee\, established in 2021. She provides education and awareness about conversations and documentation about what matters most. Hope has worked with seniors and their loved ones in various capacities throughout her career and enjoys being out in the community.  \n\n\n\nVideo: a siblings experience with Palliative Care for their mother. 
URL:https://kokuamau.org/event/the-pediatric-med-quest-community-palliative-care-benefit-webinar-3/
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DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Honolulu:20250327T150000
DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Honolulu:20250327T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T093007
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SUMMARY:Kokua Mau Monthly Meeting March 2025 Cancelled
DESCRIPTION:Due to the webinar series for the providers and the community there is no March 2025 Kōkua Mau meeting.  \n\n\n\nPlease 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. \n\n\n\nLast Thursday of the month* from 3 to 5 pm (on zoom)\n\n\n\nEach month’s topic is announced in our eNewsletter \n\n\n\nEach month we have updates about events in the community and one or more guest speakers. \n\n\n\nMeetings are open to all. \n\n\n\n*Please note that there are always months with five Thursdays. The meeting is on that last (5th) Thursday of that month (except November & December when we have a combined meeting after Thanksgiving).
URL:https://kokuamau.org/event/20788/
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DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Honolulu:20250403T120000
DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Honolulu:20250403T130000
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SUMMARY:How the New Benefit Helps You and Your Family - Webinar 4
DESCRIPTION:This year (2025)\, Hawaii became the first state in the nation to offer community-based palliative care for Medicaid (Med-QUEST) beneficiaries. \n\n\n\nPalliative care is now available as soon as a patient is diagnosed with a serious illness as a covered preventative benefit. It is available for patients who may be receiving curative treatments but need the extra support that a palliative care team can provide. (Click here for official documents and a 3-page summary.) \n\n\n\nThrough a grant from Hui Pohala\, Kōkua Mau has produced a series of four webinars to help healthcare professionals and members of managed care plans optimize this valuable\, new benefit. \n\n\n\nPlease help us spread the word and share this announcement with colleagues. To learn more about palliative care\, visit our Palliative Care pages.  \n\n\n\n\nPlease register for each webinar separately. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWebinar #4: \n\n\n\nHow the New Med-QUEST Community Palliative Care Benefit Helps You and Your FamilyThur April 3\, 2025Noon – 1pm \n\n\n\n\nRegister for April 3!\n\n\n\n\nJoin us to learn more about this innovative Community Palliative Care Benefit that increases the care and support available for people with serious illness.  \n\n\n\nThe webinar will help people with Med-QUEST and those who care for them learn about what palliative care is\, who qualifies for the benefit and how to access it in terms that are easy to understand. The session is for the public and all are welcome. \n\n\n\nSpeakers: \n\n\n\nDr. Daniel Fischberg has served as the Medical Director of the Pain and Palliative Care Department at The Queen’s Medical Center for more than 20 years and is Chief of the Division of Palliative Medicine and Professor of Geriatric Medicine at the John A. Burns School of Medicine.  \n\n\n\nAnita Jewell\, RN.  Anita Jewell’s nursing career spans 40+ years. In 1984 a 2-week vacation in Hawaiʻi turned into a permanent move after acquiring a nursing position at the Queen’s Medical Center. After 15 years at QMC’s Cardiovascular ICU\, she spent the next 20 years navigating the realms of Case Management\, Administration and Population Management. The combination of clinical and administrative experiences has led to unique opportunities to participate in community projects dealing with population health\, health management\, access to care and transitions of care. \n\n\n\nDiane DeBernardo\, APRN \n\n\n\nCecilia Ortiz\, LSCW \n\n\n\nHope Young is the Advance Care Planning Coordinator for Kōkua Mau. Hope joined Kōkua Mau in 2017 and is a founding member of the Palliative Care Awareness Committee\, established in 2021. She provides education and awareness about conversations and documentation about what matters most. Hope has worked with seniors and their loved ones in various capacities throughout her career and enjoys being out in the community.  \n\n\n\nVideo: a siblings experience with Palliative Care for their mother. 
URL:https://kokuamau.org/event/how-the-new-benefit-helps-you-and-your-family-webinar-4/
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DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Honolulu:20250408T080000
DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Honolulu:20250408T163000
DTSTAMP:20260403T093007
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SUMMARY:Advance Care Planning (ACP)\, Advance Directives and Provider Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) Facilitator Training (April)
DESCRIPTION: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. \n\n\n\nCourse Objectives: \n\n\n\n\nApply advance care planning resources to promote advance care planning discussions.\n\n\n\nEngage the multi-disciplinary team to patient-centered discussion addressing advance care planning.\n\n\n\nPromote patients’ knowledge of advance directives\, including healthcare Power of Attorney designation.\n\n\n\nImplement correct documentation of Provider Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST)-Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)\, Do Not Attempt Resuscitation (DNAR)\, full and limited treatment\, time-limited trials and Comfort Care.\n\n\n\nPromote correct process of ACP documents\, access and utilization in your organization.\n\n\n\nIdentify end-of-life options including Hawai‘i’ requirements on Medical Aid in Dying\, Our Care\, Our Choice Act.\n\n\n\n\nFirst Insurance Center (FIC)\, Education Department1100 Ward Ave\, Honolulu\, HI 96814 \n\n\n\nChoose one day to attend from 0800-1630 \n\n\n\n\nDownload the flyer\n\n\n\n\nTue June 17\, 2025\, FIC 970 • Mon Sept 15\, 2025\, FIC 630 \n\n\n\nRegistration: 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 \n\n\n\nNon HPH participants: Register online: https://www.hawaiipacifichealth.org/health-wellness/continuing- education/. Any questions contact Michelle Cantillo\, RN\, HPH ACP Coordinator via email michelle.cantillo@hawaiipacifichealth.org.
URL:https://kokuamau.org/event/advance-care-planning-acp-advance-directives-and-provider-orders-for-life-sustaining-treatment-polst-facilitator-training-april/
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DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Honolulu:20250424T150000
DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Honolulu:20250424T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T093007
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UID:21291-1745506800-1745514000@kokuamau.org
SUMMARY:Kokua Mau Meeting April 2025
DESCRIPTION:Stacie Sinclair\, CAPC’s Associate Director\, Policy and Care Transformation will present the finding from CAPC’s Serious Illness Scorecard that rates each state’s capacity to deliver high-quality care to people living with a serious illness\, and their families and caregivers. It provides an in-depth report on each state’s palliative care landscape and offers actionable recommendations to improve palliative care access in each state or region. \n\n\n\nDiscussion objectives are: \n\n\n\n\nDescribe national trends in palliative care access\n\n\n\nDescribe the methodology used to determine Hawaii’s score\n\n\n\nLeverage the Scorecard and individual state report to identify\, prioritize\, and advance initiatives to increase palliative care access in Hawaii\n\n\n\n\nClick here to see the scorecard \n\n\n\nThere is lots happening with palliative care in Hawaii and nationally and this scorecard offers interesting insights. It will also be an indicator to watch in the years ahead. \n\n\n\nPlease 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. \n\n\n\nLast Thursday of the month* from 3 to 5 pm (on zoom)\n\n\n\nEach month’s topic is announced in our eNewsletter \n\n\n\nEach month we have updates about events in the community and one or more guest speakers. \n\n\n\nMeetings are open to all. \n\n\n\n*Please note that there are always months with five Thursdays. The meeting is on that last (5th) Thursday of that month (except November & December when we have a combined meeting after Thanksgiving).
URL:https://kokuamau.org/event/kokua-mau-meeting-april-2025/
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DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Honolulu:20250513T080000
DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Honolulu:20250513T163000
DTSTAMP:20260403T093007
CREATED:20250423T001819Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250423T002325Z
UID:21340-1747123200-1747153800@kokuamau.org
SUMMARY:ACP and POLST Facilitator Training Kauaʻi
DESCRIPTION: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. \n\n\n\nCourse Objectives: \n\n\n\n\nApply advance care planning resources to promote advance care planning discussions.\n\n\n\nEngage the multi-disciplinary team to patient-centered discussion addressing advance care planning.\n\n\n\nPromote patients’ knowledge of advance directives\, including healthcare Power of Attorney designation.\n\n\n\nImplement correct documentation of Provider Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST)-CardiopulmonarymResuscitation (CPR)\, Do Not Attempt Resuscitation (DNAR)\, full and limited treatment\, time-limited trials and Comfort Care.\n\n\n\nPromote correct process of ACP documents\, access and utilization in your organization.\n\n\n\nIdentify end-of-life options including Hawai‘i’s requirements on Medical Aid in Dying\, Our Care\, Our Choice Act.\n\n\n\n\nTue May 13 2025
8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.Wilcox Medical CenterConference Room B/C3-3420 Kuhio Hwy\, Lihue\, HI \n\n\n\nRegistration: 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 \n\n\n\nNon HPH participants: Register online or contact Michelle Cantillo\, RN\, HPH ACP Coordinator via email michelle.cantillo@hawaiipacifichealth.org.
URL:https://kokuamau.org/event/acp-and-polst-facilitator-training-kauai/
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DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Honolulu:20250520T120000
DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Honolulu:20250520T160000
DTSTAMP:20260403T093007
CREATED:20250411T225353Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250411T225353Z
UID:21289-1747742400-1747756800@kokuamau.org
SUMMARY:Advance Care Planning
DESCRIPTION:This class is offered for physicians\, nurses\, social workers\, pharmacists\, clinical psychologists and other clinicians. It promotes ACP introductions and will review key elements and processes related to ACP\, Advance Directives and POLST in the clinic. \n\n\n\nCourse Objectives: \n\n\n\n\nApply ACP resources to promote advance care planning discussions.\n\n\n\nPromote patients’ knowledge of advance directives including healthcare power of attorney designation.\n\n\n\nIdentify the differences between an Advance Directive and Provider Order for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST)\n\n\n\nand implement correct documentation of these documents.\n\n\n\nImplement and standardize ACP processes.\n\n\n\nIdentify the Hawai‘i requirements of Medical Aid in Dying\, Our Care\, Our Choice Act.\n\n\n\nEngage the multi-disciplinary team patient-centered discussion addressing advance care planning.\n\n\n\n\nTue May 2012:00-16:00First Insurance Center (FIC)Suite 970\, Education Department1100 Ward Ave.\, Honolulu\, HI 96813 \n\n\n\nChoose one afternoon to attend. Other dates: Wed\, 8/13/2025\, 1230–1630 or Tue\, 11/4/2025 1200–1600 \n\n\n\nRegistration: 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. \n\n\n\nNonHPH participants: Register online: https://www.hawaiipacifichealth.org/health-well ness/continuing-education/ or contact Michelle Cantillo\, RN\, HPH ACP Coordinator via email michelle.cantillo@hawaiipacifichealth.org. Any questions\, call Michelle Cantillo at 808-535-7874.
URL:https://kokuamau.org/event/advance-care-planning/
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DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Honolulu:20250521T171500
DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Honolulu:20250521T183000
DTSTAMP:20260403T093007
CREATED:20250210T223347Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250203T233630Z
UID:20956-1747847700-1747852200@kokuamau.org
SUMMARY:Palliative Pupus (zoom) May 2025
DESCRIPTION:We’d like to invite you to zoom only Palliative Pupus. \n\n\n\nOur 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.  \n\n\n\nAt the May meeting we meet on zoom only\, to include neighbor islands and others on zoom.  \n\n\n\nHow does Palliative Pupus work?\n\n\n\nThe theme and presenters for each ‘Palliative Pupus’ is announced one to two weeks prior to the meeting date via our Kōkua Mau eNewsletter. If you are not receiving our eNewsletter yet\, please subscribe here and we will keep you informed. \n\n\n\nWhat is Palliative Pupus?\n\n\n\nOur 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) \n\n\n\nThe 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.
URL:https://kokuamau.org/event/palliative-pupus-zoom-may-2025/
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DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Honolulu:20250529T150000
DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Honolulu:20250529T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T093007
CREATED:20250411T230137Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250522T202412Z
UID:21295-1748530800-1748538000@kokuamau.org
SUMMARY:Kokua Mau Meeting May 2025 Cancelled
DESCRIPTION:No meetings in May and June 2025 \n\n\n\nPlease 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. \n\n\n\nLast Thursday of the month* from 3 to 5 pm (on zoom)\n\n\n\nEach month’s topic is announced in our eNewsletter \n\n\n\nEach month we have updates about events in the community and one or more guest speakers. \n\n\n\n*Please note that there are always months with five Thursdays. The meeting is on that last (5th) Thursday of that month (except November & December when we have a combined meeting after Thanksgiving).
URL:https://kokuamau.org/event/kokua-mau-meeting-may-2025/
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DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Honolulu:20250617T080000
DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Honolulu:20250617T163000
DTSTAMP:20260403T093007
CREATED:20250410T173000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250411T225711Z
UID:20779-1750147200-1750177800@kokuamau.org
SUMMARY:Advance Care Planning (ACP)\, Advance Directives and Provider Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) Facilitator Training (June)
DESCRIPTION: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. \n\n\n\nCourse Objectives: \n\n\n\n\nApply advance care planning resources to promote advance care planning discussions.\n\n\n\nEngage the multi-disciplinary team to patient-centered discussion addressing advance care planning.\n\n\n\nPromote patients’ knowledge of advance directives\, including healthcare Power of Attorney designation.\n\n\n\nImplement correct documentation of Provider Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST)-Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)\, Do Not Attempt Resuscitation (DNAR)\, full and limited treatment\, time-limited trials and Comfort Care.\n\n\n\nPromote correct process of ACP documents\, access and utilization in your organization.\n\n\n\nIdentify end-of-life options including Hawai‘i’ requirements on Medical Aid in Dying\, Our Care\, Our Choice Act.\n\n\n\n\nFirst Insurance Center (FIC)\, Education Department1100 Ward Ave\, Honolulu\, HI 96814 \n\n\n\nChoose one day to attend from 0800-1630 \n\n\n\n\nDownload the flyer\n\n\n\n\nTue June 17\, 2025\, FIC 970 • Mon Sept 15\, 2025\, FIC 630 \n\n\n\nRegistration: 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 \n\n\n\nNon HPH participants: Register online: https://www.hawaiipacifichealth.org/health-wellness/continuing- education/. Any questions contact Michelle Cantillo\, RN\, HPH ACP Coordinator via email michelle.cantillo@hawaiipacifichealth.org.
URL:https://kokuamau.org/event/advance-care-planning-acp-advance-directives-and-provider-orders-for-life-sustaining-treatment-polst-facilitator-training-june/
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DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Honolulu:20250717T051500
DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Honolulu:20250717T183000
DTSTAMP:20260403T093007
CREATED:20250714T202721Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250714T202722Z
UID:21466-1752729300-1752777000@kokuamau.org
SUMMARY:Cancelled: Palliative Pupus July 2025
DESCRIPTION:We hope you are enjoying the summer. Unfortunately\, we will need to cancel Palliative Pupus this coming Wednesday\, July 16. The stars are not aligned this time so our apologies that we will NOT be meeting. Next Palliative Pupus will be on September 17. \n\n\n\nOur 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. 
URL:https://kokuamau.org/event/cancelled-palliative-pupus-july-2025/
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DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Honolulu:20250813T123000
DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Honolulu:20250813T163000
DTSTAMP:20260403T093007
CREATED:20250714T204934Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250714T204934Z
UID:21472-1755088200-1755102600@kokuamau.org
SUMMARY:Advance Care Planning Aug 2025
DESCRIPTION:This class is offered for physicians\, nurses\, social workers\, pharmacists\, clinical psychologists and other clinicians. It promotes ACP introductions and will review key elements and processes related to ACP\, Advance Directives and POLST in the clinic. \n\n\n\nCourse Objectives: \n\n\n\n\nApply ACP resources to promote advance care planning discussions.\n\n\n\nPromote patients’ knowledge of advance directives including healthcare power of attorney designation.\n\n\n\nIdentify the differences between an Advance Directive and Provider Order for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST)\n\n\n\nand implement correct documentation of these documents.\n\n\n\nImplement and standardize ACP processes.\n\n\n\nIdentify the Hawai‘i requirements of Medical Aid in Dying\, Our Care\, Our Choice Act.\n\n\n\nEngage the multi-disciplinary team patient-centered discussion addressing advance care planning.\n\n\n\n\nWednesday\, 8/131230 – 1630First Insurance Center (FIC) Suite 970\,Education Department 1100 Ward Ave.\, Honolulu\, HI 96813 \n\n\n\nRegistration: 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 online: https://www.hawaiipacifichealth.org/health-wellness/continuing-education/ or contact Michelle Cantillo\, RN\, HPH ACP Coordinator via email michelle.cantillo@hawaiipacifichealth.org. Any questions\, call Michelle Cantillo at 808-535-7874.
URL:https://kokuamau.org/event/advance-care-planning-aug-2025/
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DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Honolulu:20250820T100000
DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Honolulu:20250820T120000
DTSTAMP:20260403T093007
CREATED:20250806T015220Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250813T042346Z
UID:21488-1755684000-1755691200@kokuamau.org
SUMMARY:AARP Hawaii - I Wish I Had Known A Caregiver’s Story 
DESCRIPTION:Hope Young\, Advanced Care Planning Coordinator\, Kōkua Mauʻs own is part of a three person panel: “I Wish I Had Known … Getting Affairs in Order to Avoid Heartache: A Personal Caregiver Story“. This is an in person event. \n\n\n\nWed Aug 2010 AM to NoonHale Kōkua O Mānoa Adventist Community Center2655 Manoa Rd\, Honolulu\, HI 96822 \n\n\n\n\nRegister on the AARP Hawaii website\n\n\n\n\nThink you’re ready for a loved one’s passing? Learn from author Annette Kam’s story and get practical tips to ease the paperwork and planning before it’s too late. \n\n\n\nThink you’re prepared for a loved one’s passing? The paperwork and details may surprise you. Join caregiver/author Annette Kam as she shares her story and offers essential tips to help you plan ahead—and ease the burden when the time comes. Hear from a local resource panel: Alan Gamble\, President\, Mits Aoki Legacy Foundation\, Savvy Makalena\, Founder & CEO\, Gimme A Break\, Hope Young\, Advanced Care Planning Coordinator\, Kōkua Mau.
URL:https://kokuamau.org/event/21488/
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DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Honolulu:20250821T120000
DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Honolulu:20250821T130000
DTSTAMP:20260403T093007
CREATED:20250812T195958Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250812T195959Z
UID:21514-1755777600-1755781200@kokuamau.org
SUMMARY:Med-QUEST Community Palliative Care  Benefit Overview For Social Workers
DESCRIPTION:As part of the PEACE – Munch and Learn Series 2025 Promoting Engagement\, Aloha\, & Compassion in the Everyday Care the presenter is Torrie Fields\, MPH\, CEO\, TFA Analytics Strategic Advisor to Hawaii DHS\, Med-QUEST Division. \n\n\n\nAugust 21\, 2025 12:00 to 1:00 pm \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister for the zoom meeting \n\n\n\nSee flyer for for continuing education information\n\n\n\n\nDuring this second PEACE session for 2025 we will explore the new Hawaii Medicaid Palliative Care Benefit\, and the important role social workers play within the interdisciplinary palliative care team caring for people facing serious illness. Please join us to expand our understanding and awareness of these unique contributions that social workers make and how this is now being recognized as critically important by Med- QUEST.
URL:https://kokuamau.org/event/med-quest-community-palliative-care-benefit-overview-for-social-workers/
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DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Honolulu:20250828T120000
DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Honolulu:20250828T130000
DTSTAMP:20260403T093007
CREATED:20250806T010437Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250809T010054Z
UID:21480-1756382400-1756386000@kokuamau.org
SUMMARY:Bereavement Network of Hawaii presents author of wait don't die yet
DESCRIPTION:Presented by the Bereavement Network of Hawaii: Hawaii Author Annette Kam\, RN “WAIT\, DON’T DIE YET!”  \n\n\n\nA complete guide to all things no one really wants to think about (but everyone really needs to know) before\, during\, and after a loved one’s passing. \n\n\n\nAugust 2812:00 PM to 1:00 PM  \n\n\n\n\nRegister for the zoom meeting or use the QR code\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDownload the flyer for details about the author\n\n\n\n\nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. \n\n\n\nAll Kōkua Mau members are welcome to join in this meeting. The Bereavement Network Of Hawaii (BNOH) was founded to support people who are providing bereavement services to individuals and families in the Hawaii community through informational programs\, networking and support\, both on-line and in person throughout the year. A comprehensive list of agencies and individuals is posted and updated on our Kōkua Mau website. 
URL:https://kokuamau.org/event/bereavement-network-of-hawaii-presents-author-of-wait-dont-die-yet/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Honolulu:20250828T150000
DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Honolulu:20250828T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T093007
CREATED:20250714T200039Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250826T231320Z
UID:21463-1756393200-1756400400@kokuamau.org
SUMMARY:Kokua Mau Monthly Meeting August 2025
DESCRIPTION:Kate DeBartolo\, The Conversation Project\, Institute for Healthcare Improvement \n\n\n\nMy Health Checklist was developed by IHI and is a free guide for older adults that complements the Conversation Project’s other materials\,which are widely used in Hawaii. Kate DeBartolo will introduce the tool to help people prepare for medical appointments and share with us lessons learned. The Health Checklist is also available in Chinese and Spanish. \n\n\n\nKate has done trainings in Hawaiʻi with us\, before the pandemic\, and is a long time supporter of Kōkua Mau and the work happening here in Hawaiʻi to support people who may be facing serious illness. \n\n\n\nVisit the website to see this excellent and free resource: https://www.ihi.org/partner/initiatives/age-friendly-health-systems/my-health-checklist \n\n\n\nMy Health Checklist is designed to help older adults get the most out of their medical appointments. This guide helps you think through all aspects of your health — what’s going well\, what could be better\, and your questions or concerns. Being prepared means that you can make sure your appointment focuses on the things that matter most to you. \n\n\n\n\nRegister in advance for this meeting\n\n\n\nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.\n\n\n\n\nPlease 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. \n\n\n\nLast Thursday of the month* from 3 to 5 pm (on zoom)\n\n\n\n* Please note that there are months with five Thursdays. If this is the case\, the meeting is on the 5th Thursday of that month (except November & December when we have a combined meeting after Thanksgiving). \n\n\n\nEach month’s topic is announced in our eNewsletter
URL:https://kokuamau.org/event/kokua-mau-monthly-meeting-august-2025/
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DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Honolulu:20250906T100000
DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Honolulu:20250906T120000
DTSTAMP:20260403T093007
CREATED:20250825T223626Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250825T223801Z
UID:21536-1757152800-1757160000@kokuamau.org
SUMMARY:Let’s Talk Story about Advance Care Planning and How It Can Help Caregivers and Loved Ones 
DESCRIPTION:10 a.m. to Noon Catholic Charities Hawaiʻi Community Hall1822 Keʻeaumoku Street in Makiki  \n\n\n\n\nAdvance Registration is required\n\n\n\nParking instructions will be sent to registrants prior to the date\n\n\n\nDownload the flyer\n\n\n\n\nHope Young\, Kōkua Mau’s own Advance Care Planning (ACP) Coordinator will conduct the 2 hour workshop. Hope will share: \n\n\n\n\nHow conversations about what matters most can support wishes for care\n\n\n\nWhat is an Advance Health Care Directive and how it can support loved ones\n\n\n\nWhat is a POLST (the green paper) and who needs one\n\n\n\nTips about Advance Care Planning with someone with dementia\n\n\n\nPalliative Care – what is it? Who can benefit from it?\n\n\n\nDiscover how early hospice can support loved ones and offer the best care possible \n\n\n\nFor questions about the workshops or you need help registering\, please contact Jody Mishan\, (808) 295-2624 or jmishan@hawaii.rr.com
URL:https://kokuamau.org/event/lets-talk-story-about-advance-care-planning-and-how-it-can-help-caregivers-and-loved-ones/
LOCATION:Catholic Charities Hawaii\, 1822 Keʻeaumoku Street\, Honolulu\, Hawaii
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DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Honolulu:20250906T170000
DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Honolulu:20250906T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T093007
CREATED:20250826T230604Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250826T230605Z
UID:21541-1757178000-1757185200@kokuamau.org
SUMMARY:5th annual Shine A Light for Caregivers Celebration
DESCRIPTION:Gimme A Break Hawaii invites you to Shine a light to support Caregivers with them at their 5th annual Shine A Light for Caregivers Celebration \n\n\n\nSept 6\, 2025\, from 5:00-7:00PMKapiolani Bandstand in Waikiki \n\n\n\n\nPlace your remembering leaf at the tree of light\n\n\n\nKumu Charlani Kalama and Hālau Ha’a Hula ‘O Kekau’ilani Na Pua Hala o Kailua\n\n\n\nSpecial Sound Bowl by Calleigh Piper in remeberence of those lost!\n\n\n\n\nThe Yearly Shine A Light Celebration grows awareness for Caregivers! Currently 50% of all Caregivers in the United States will NOT survive their Career! \n\n\n\nThis year alone we lost many within our community! Many Caregivers become isolated and withdrawn\, it’s as if they disappear into the darkness! As we “SHINE A LIGHT” for Caregivers\, we show them that we see them and appreciate them and give them a light of hope and appreciation for all they do! \n\n\n\n\nPer-order your remembering leaf here
URL:https://kokuamau.org/event/5th-annual-shine-a-light-for-caregivers-celebration/
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DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Honolulu:20250915T080000
DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Honolulu:20250915T163000
DTSTAMP:20260403T093007
CREATED:20250812T173600Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250102T213836Z
UID:20786-1757923200-1757953800@kokuamau.org
SUMMARY:Advance Care Planning (ACP)\, Advance Directives and Provider Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) Facilitator Training (Sept)
DESCRIPTION: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. \n\n\n\nCourse Objectives: \n\n\n\n\nApply advance care planning resources to promote advance care planning discussions.\n\n\n\nEngage the multi-disciplinary team to patient-centered discussion addressing advance care planning.\n\n\n\nPromote patients’ knowledge of advance directives\, including healthcare Power of Attorney designation.\n\n\n\nImplement correct documentation of Provider Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST)-Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)\, Do Not Attempt Resuscitation (DNAR)\, full and limited treatment\, time-limited trials and Comfort Care.\n\n\n\nPromote correct process of ACP documents\, access and utilization in your organization.\n\n\n\nIdentify end-of-life options including Hawai‘i’ requirements on Medical Aid in Dying\, Our Care\, Our Choice Act.\n\n\n\n\nFirst Insurance Center (FIC)\, Education Department1100 Ward Ave\, Honolulu\, HI 96814 \n\n\n\nChoose one day to attend from 0800-1630 \n\n\n\n\nDownload the flyer\n\n\n\n\nMon Sept 15\, 2025\, FIC 630 \n\n\n\nRegistration: 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 \n\n\n\nNon HPH participants: Register online: https://www.hawaiipacifichealth.org/health-wellness/continuing- education/. Any questions contact Michelle Cantillo\, RN\, HPH ACP Coordinator via email michelle.cantillo@hawaiipacifichealth.org.
URL:https://kokuamau.org/event/advance-care-planning-acp-advance-directives-and-provider-orders-for-life-sustaining-treatment-polst-facilitator-training-sept/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Honolulu:20250917T171500
DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Honolulu:20250917T183000
DTSTAMP:20260403T093007
CREATED:20250731T234750Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250915T022134Z
UID:21477-1758129300-1758133800@kokuamau.org
SUMMARY:Palliative Pupus (zoom) Sept 2025
DESCRIPTION:We’d like to invite you to zoom only Palliative Pupus. \n\n\n\nThis month: Hospice Mauiʻs Interdisciplinary Team will be presenting a complex palliative care and hospice case involving a single mother of two young children who experienced a recurrence of aggressive metastatic breast cancer. The case was marked by challenging family dynamics\, conflicting goals of care\, and difficult-to-manage symptoms. Navigating care required creative problem-solving and full engagement of our interdisciplinary team to ensure compassionate\, coordinated support for both the patient and her family. \n\n\n\nOur 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.  \n\n\n\nAt the May meeting we meet on zoom only\, to include neighbor islands and others on zoom. \n\n\n\nHow does Palliative Pupus work?\n\n\n\nThe theme and presenters for each ‘Palliative Pupus’ is announced one to two weeks prior to the meeting date via our Kōkua Mau eNewsletter. If you are not receiving our eNewsletter yet\, please subscribe here and we will keep you informed. \n\n\n\nWhat is Palliative Pupus?\n\n\n\nOur 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) \n\n\n\nThe 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.
URL:https://kokuamau.org/event/palliative-pupus-zoom-sept-2025/
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DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Honolulu:20250925T133000
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SUMMARY:Kokua Mau Meeting Sept 2025
DESCRIPTION:MyDirectives digital ACP solutions\n\n\n\nThur Sept 25 12 noon – 1:30pm \n\n\n\nPlease note that this month’s meeting starts at NOON since our speaker lives on the East Coast. Invite your colleagues who are interested in this possible solution for Hawaii. \n\n\n\nHigh-quality digital advance care planning (ACP) enables patients’ voices to be heard across all points of care. When advance directives\, mental health advance directives (MHADs)\, and portable medical orders (POLST) are accessible in real time\, care teams can honor patient healthcare goals and preferences\, reduce unnecessary and unwanted treatments\, and lessen the emotional burden on families and clinicians \n\n\n\nHere in Hawaii we continue to look for solutions to help make sure that documents can be found when they are needed. I reached out to MyDirectives as I have heard them present at national meetings AND they are interested in helping Hawaii succeed.  \n\n\n\nPlease join us to hear from MyDirectives about their digital ACP solutions. They have a nationwide registry and work with each state to create comprehensive systems that allow the entire healthcare community – providers\, health plans\, first responders\, state agencies\, HIEs/HDUs\, and quality organizations to access documents any where\, any time. In Hawaiʻi\, this approach can accelerate adoption of best practices\, streamline deployment across care settings — including for EMS and fire teams providing care in the field — and deliver the reporting and analytics needed to measure impact on quality and cost.  \n\n\n\nJoin Jessica Zan\, Vice President of Clinical Integration at MyDirectives\, to explore how Hawaiʻi can build a comprehensive ACP ecosystem that improves outcomes for patients\, families\, and the healthcare system as a whole. \n\n\n\n\nRegister in advance for this meeting\n\n\n\nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
URL:https://kokuamau.org/event/kokua-mau-meeting-sept-2025/
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DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Honolulu:20251017T113000
DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Honolulu:20251017T133000
DTSTAMP:20260403T093007
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SUMMARY:Hawaiʻi ANA Lunch and Learn: Patients' Perceptions of Compassionate Nursing Care
DESCRIPTION:You are invited to the HANA event: Hawaiʻi ANA Lunch and Learn: \n\n\n\nKōkua Mau’ own Dr. Pat Nishimoto will present on the Perception of Compassionate Nursing Care by Oncology Patients. This event offers 1.5 contact hours to attendees. \n\n\n\nFri Oct1711:30am – 1:30 HST \n\n\n\nLocation: Mangiamo by 604943 Valkenburgh Street (Mauka of the airport)Honolulu\, HI\, 9681 \n\n\n\n\nRegister to attend on their website (registration includes lunch)
URL:https://kokuamau.org/event/hawai%ca%bbi-ana-lunch-and-learn-patients-perceptions-of-compassionate-nursing-care/
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DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Honolulu:20251030T120000
DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Honolulu:20251030T130000
DTSTAMP:20260403T093007
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SUMMARY:Educating Social Workers in Palliative and End of Life Care-(ESPEC)
DESCRIPTION:With Shirley Otis-Green\, LCSW\, OSW-CE\, FNAP\, FAOSW Founder and Consultant of Collaborative Caring and Myra Glajchen\, DSW\, MSW\, BSW\, ACSW\, APHSW-C\, Director of Education and Training. \n\n\n\n\nRegistration: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/PB-wz2XURe2HpxNiIg4jPQ This session is free.\n\n\n\n\nShirley Otis-Green\, (https://www.collaborativecaring.net/about) is an internationally recognized social work expert in palliative care and is the author/editor of numerous articles and books including The Oxford Textbook of Palliative Social Work\, 2E. She will be presenting an introduction to a state-of-the-art training program called Educating Social Workers in Palliative and End of Life Care-(ESPEC).  \n\n\n\nMyra Glajchen\, (https://www.mjhspalliativeinstitute.org/the-staff/) is an internationally recognized leader in palliative and oncology social work with a distinguished teaching and research portfolio. She is Project Director for Educating Social Workers in Palliative and End-of-Life Care (ESPEC)\, which has trained over 850 social workers. \n\n\n\nHui Pohala is now collaborating with her to make the ESPEC training program available for all Hawai`i social workers\, especially for those social workers working with people who are seriously ill and their families. Plans include in-person training on all of the neighbor islands and Oahu. Please register and attend this session to learn more about this exciting career enhancing opportunity. \n\n\n\n\nDownload flier for details and CEU
URL:https://kokuamau.org/event/educating-social-workers-in-palliative-and-end-of-life-care-espec/
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DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Honolulu:20251101T110000
DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Honolulu:20251101T130000
DTSTAMP:20260403T093007
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SUMMARY:Celebrate 25 years of Kokua Mau with us
DESCRIPTION:November 1\, 202511am – 1pmChurch of the Crossroads \n\n\n\nRSVP at: https://forms.gle/YTMH7558tn1sw7dVA \n\n\n\nPlease save the date and come and celebrate 25 years of Kōkua Mau with your friends and colleagues. This will be a unique opportunity to talk story\, catch up with people and appreciate the amazing coalition that is Kōkua Mau. This will be a potluck and open to everyone in Kōkua Mau. Families and friends are welcome. \n\n\n\nThere will be crafts\, food\, music\, a photo booth AND momentos from the last 25 years. Please bring any photos to share \n\n\n\nInterested in helping us make this happen? Please let Jeannette know if you would like to be on the work group.
URL:https://kokuamau.org/event/celebrate-25-years-of-kokua-mau-with-us/
LOCATION:Church of the Crossroads\, 1212 University Av.\, Honolulu\, HI\, 96826\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Honolulu:20251114T173000
DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Honolulu:20251114T193000
DTSTAMP:20260403T093007
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SUMMARY:9th Annual HPGS Tony Lenzer Scholarship Fundraiser's honoree is Jeannette Koijane
DESCRIPTION:Jeannette is this year’s honoree of the HPGS Tony Lenzer Scholarship Fundraiser because of her commitment since 1988 to serving those who need serious illness care. Since 2010\, Jeannette has been the Executive Director of Kōkua Mau\, which was established in 1999 as a statewide network to lead the movement to improve care for everyone. \n\n\n\nPlease join us in person at HGPS’ Annual HPGS Tony Lenzer Scholarship Fundraiser in honoring our very own Executive Director Jeannette Koijane. \n\n\n\nFri Nov 14 5:30pm Reception at Arcadia with Pupu & Wine  \n\n\n\n\nPlease download the flyer and registration form to register or online at HPGS\n\n\n\n\nProceeds of this years HGPS fundraiser will go to support the HPGS annual Tony Lenzer Scholarship program for students with a serious interest in professional work related to aging\, long term care and/or death and dying.
URL:https://kokuamau.org/event/9th-annual-hpgs-tony-lenzer-scholarship-fundraisers-honoree-is-jeannette-koijane/
LOCATION:Arcadia Retirement Residence\, 1434 Punahou St\, Honolulu\, 96822
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