Kokua Mau

Care Coordination under the Med-QUEST Community Palliative Care Benefit - Webinar 2
2025-03-20 12:00 - 13:00 (Pacific/Honolulu)
Please register for each webinar separately.

Webinar #2:

Care Coordination under the Med-QUEST Community Palliative Care BenefitThur March 20, 2025Noon – 1 pm

In 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.

Speakers:

Toby 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.

Torrie 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.

A 45-minute presentation will be followed by a live, interactive 15-minute Q&A session.

Learn who can provide palliative care, reimbursement codes, and requirements.

Webinar #3:

The Pediatric Med-QUEST Community Palliative Care BenefitTuesday March 25, 2025Noon – 1 pm

Find out what is covered in this palliative care benefit for children.

Webinar #4:

How the New Med-QUEST Community Palliative Care Benefit Helps You and Your FamilyThur April 3, 2025Noon – 1pm

Med-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.

For questions about the webinar series, please contact us.

Palliative Pupus March 2025
2025-03-19 17:15 - 18:30
We’d like to invite you to our virtual and hybrid Palliative Pupus.

This 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.

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.

At 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.

Queen’s Conference Center for Palliative Pupus.

The Queens Conference Center (QCC) – Room 200510 S. Beretania StreetHonolulu, HI 96813

Please join us bi-monthly on the:

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

Park for free at the municipal Civic Center parking lot on South Beretania after 4 PM (see map below)

Park in the Queen’s Miller parking lot for validated parking (pricey without the sticker). See map.

Across the street at the DOH now has a two hour maximum enforced 24 hours (gone are the good old days).

More on parking near QCC

How does Palliative Pupus work?

The 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.

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)

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.

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Overview of the Palliative Care Services Benefit - Webinar 1
2025-03-13 12:00 - 13:00
This year, Hawaii became the first state in the nation to offer community-based palliative care for Medicaid (Med-QUEST) beneficiaries.

Palliative 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.)

Through 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.

Recordings are currently available on YouTube, please visit our webpage for links.

To learn more about palliative care, visit our resources.

Webinar #1:

Overview of the Palliative Care Services BenefitThur, March 13, 2025Noon to 1 pm HST

In 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.

Speakers:

Dr. 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.

Torrie 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.

A 45-minute presentation will be followed by a live, interactive 15-minute Q&A session.

Other Upcoming Webinars

Watch 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.

Webinar #2:

Care Coordination under the Community-based Palliative Care BenefitThur March 20, 2025Noon – 1 pm

Learn who can provide palliative care, reimbursement codes, and more.

Webinar #3:

Pediatric Palliative Care BenefitTuesday March 25, 2025Noon – 1 pm

Find out what is covered in this palliative care benefit for children.

Webinar #4:

How the New Benefit Helps You and Your FamilyThur April 3, 2025Noon – 1pm

Med-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.

For questions about the webinar series, please contact info@kokuamau.org

Kokua Mau Monthly Meeting Feb 2025
2025-02-27 15:00 - 16:30
Thur 2/27 Kōkua Mau Meeting – What Matters to Native Hawaiian Elders: Care Preferences

Please 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.

A 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.

“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.

Cultural perspectives on death: Kūpuna view death as a transition that acknowledges relationships with ancestors and the land.

Traditional healing practices: Lāʻau lapaʻau (herbal medicine) and lomilomi (massage) are essential aspects of care.

Family-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.

Preference 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.

Thur Feb 273-4:30pm

Register in advance for this meeting

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

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.

Each month’s topic is announced in our eNewsletter

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

*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).

Advance Care Planning (ACP), Advance Directives and Provider Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) Facilitator Training
2025-02-08 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 advance care planning discussions.

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

Promote patients’ knowledge of advance directives, including healthcare Power of Attorney designation.

Implement 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.

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), Education Department1100 Ward Ave, Honolulu, HI 96814

Choose one day to attend from 0800-1630

Download the flyer

Tue Feb 25, 2025, FIC 970 • Tue April 8, 2025, FIC 970 • Tue June 17, 2025, FIC 970 • Mon Sept 15, 2025, FIC 630

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

Non 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.

Kokua Mau Meeting Jan 2025
2025-01-30 15:00 - 17:00
Please note that January has 5 Thursdays this year.

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.

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

Each month’s topic is announced in our eNewsletter

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

Meetings are open to all.

*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).

Advance Care Planning for Healthcare Professionals Virtual Class
2025-01-21 12:30 - 15:30
This virtual class is offered for physicians, nurses, social workers, pharmacists, clinical psychologists and other healthcare professionals to promote ACP discussions and will review key elements and processes related to ACP, Advance Directives and POLST.

Tue Jan 21, 2025 12:30 – 3:30 p.m. on Zoom

Course Objectives:

Apply advance care planning resources to promote advance care planning discussions.

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

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

Registration: https://hph-org.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMqcuCrrzkjGtI27DkgqMeZ1QijGjQPZciT

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email after approval.

Any questions please contact Michelle Cantillo, RN, HPH ACP Coordinator at 808-535-7874 or via email: michelle.cantillo@hawaiipacifichealth.org.

Advance Care Planning, Advance Directives and Provider Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment Facilitator Training Kauaʻi
2025-01-17 08:00 - 17:00
This training is offered for nurses, physicians, social workers, pharmacists, clinical psychologists 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.

Fri Jan 17Wilcox Medical Center 3-3420 Conference Room A Kuhio Hwy, Lihue, HI

Course Objectives:

Apply advance care planning resources to promote advance care planning discussions.

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

Promote patients’ knowledge of advance directives, including healthcare Power of A􏰁orney designation.

Implement 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.

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.

Download the brochure

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

Non 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.

Palliative Pupus Jan 2025
2025-01-15 17:15 - 18:30
We’d like to invite you to our virtual and hybrid Palliative Pupus. January 2025 is on zoom ONLY

This month we’ll hear about a family in conflict over treatment goals and the instrumental role of palliative care chaplains in such situations, including in engaging community faith leaders.

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 2025. Every second 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 hybrid in person meetings you will enjoy actual pupus.

How does Palliative Pupus work?

The 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.

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)

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.

Queen’s Conference Center for Palliative Pupus.

The Queens Conference Center (QCC) – Room 200510 S. Beretania StreetHonolulu, HI 96813

Please join us bi-monthly on the:

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

Park for free at the municipal Civic Center parking lot on South Beretania after 4 PM (see map below)

Park in the Queen’s Miller parking lot for validated parking (pricey without the sticker). See map.

Across the street at the DOH now has a two hour maximum enforced 24 hours (gone are the good old days).

More on parking near QCC

http://goo.gl/maps/PToQ5

7th Annual Mits Aoki Legacy Foundation Luncheon
2025-01-11 10:30 - 14:30
We are excited and pleased to invite you to attend the 7th Annual Mits Aoki Legacy Foundation Meeting and Scholarship Luncheon.

January 11, 202510:30 AM to 2:30 PMChurch of the Crossroads, 1212 University Ave., Honolulu

Registration was required before January 3, 2025.

This year we will celebrate Hob Osterlund, APRN, the recipient of the 2024 Mitsuo Aoki Community Service Award; while we enjoy, and honor, the continuing legacy of Reverend Dr. Mitsuo Aoki.

The Mitsuo Aoki Community Service Award is given to recognize the outstanding contributions of those individuals working in the areas of palliative care and hospice care, as well as, in the area of teaching others to provide compassionate skilled care for seriously and/or terminally ill people. Please Join us to thank Hob Osterlund for her outstanding contributions throughout her career to our community, and to her profession.

We are also honored and pleased to invite Kahu Makanihouolanaʻihale Tabura as our guest speaker. Kahu Makani will be sharing with us principles of health and healing from his knowledge and experience of traditional Hawaiian cultural practice. He will assist us to apply these Hawaiian principles to our shared human experience, while also considering the culture and traditions of our own ancestry and life circumstances.

Please register

Registration is required before January 3, 2025. It is highly recommended to please register early as seating is limited. (let us know at (808) 741-5733 if you registered but will not be able to attend in case there are people on a waiting list who want to attend.)

Thank you for your support and we look forward to seeing you there. May your holidays be full of Love and Light

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Advance Care Planning (ACP), Advance Directives and Provider Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) Facilitator Training Dec 2024
2024-12-17 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.

Thur 12/178 am – 4:30 PM

Course Objectives:

Promote goals of care discussions by learning effective communication skills to facilitate advance care planning 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 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.

Identify processes to access ACP documents in the EMR and required documentation needed for ACP.

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

Download the flyer

First Insurance Center (FIC) Classroom 970, Education Department 862 South Beretania StreetHonolulu, HI 0800-1630

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

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.

Last Kokua Mau meeting in 2024
2024-12-05 15:00 - 17:00
Please join us on Dec 5 for our last 2024 Virtual Monthly Meeting on zoom, to learn, laugh, mingle and network.

The last Kōkua Mau meeting of 2024 will be on Death Doulas and the important role they play at the end of life. Please join us to learn:

What do they do?

Where can you find one?

How are they trained?

We’ll also have updates on the MedQuest Palliative Care benefit and welcome updates from our community.

Presenters:

Leilani Maxera, MPH, LCSW, Kaipuokaualoku, LLC, Linktree – Leilani Maxera

Laura Miner, CT, End of Life Doula, Educator, and Grief Coach

Joy Rodriguez, Burden Lifter, End of Life Resource Provider and Ally Burden Lifters, LLC, Burden Lifters

Ashley Wolfe, Family Bereavement Specialist and Death Doula, The Grieving Well

Please 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.

Meetings are at the last Thursday of the month from 3 to 5 pm (on zoom)

Meetings are open to all.

Each month’s topic is announced in our eNewsletter

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

For recordings of selected meeting please visit our website.

Public Advance Care Planning Classes on Zoom Dec 2024
2024-12-05 12:30 - 14:00
Register and attend with your family and friends to learn the importance of advance care planning.

Thur Dec 512:30-2p.m on zoom

KEY AREAS OF DISCUSSION INCLUDE:

Why it is important to have early conversations on your wishes with your loved ones.

How to complete an advance directive, understanding the role of a health care power of attorney and choosing wisely.

Reviewing the difference between an advance directive and Provider Order for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) document.

Sharing the information with your loved ones and medical providers.

PLEASE NOTE: At this time, classes are only available via Zoom virtual classroom. Register with your email address and you will receive a Zoom link. Space is limited.

Register today for this free event: HawaiiPacificHealth.org/ACP-Registration.

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.

The Fine Art and Science of Pain and Palliative Care 2024
2024-11-11 08:00 - 16:30
The Queen’s Medical Center announces the premier palliative care conference in Hawaiʻi

Mon Nov 118:00 am – 4:30 pm The Salvation Army Kroc Center – Hawaiʻi 91-3257 KUALAKAI PARKWAYEwa Beach, HI 96706

This one-day conference is designed to enhance practitioners knowledge and competence in pain management and palliative care to reduce patients’ acute and chronic symptom distress and enhance overall well-being. Open to all health care professionals in and beyond Hawaiʻi. Register soon as this conference has sold out in the past!!

Details on our webpage

Download the brochure and program (with CE and parking information details)

Go directly to the QMC registration page

Preparing a catholic advance health care directive
2024-11-02 13:00 - 16:00
Catholic Collaboration at Our Lady of Good Counsel:

Nov 21pm-4pm Our Lady of Good Counsel Church1525 Waimano Home Road

Open to the public

Join Hope Young from Kōkua Mau and others in this workshop on creating, updating, and discussing Catholic healthcare directives. Learn how to align your healthcare decisions with your faith, ensuring your values are respected. Ideal for those seeking to make informed, faith-based choices about end-of-life care.

Register: https://www.hawaiifamilyforum.org/register/

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An event of Kōkua Mauʻs Community Outreach

As part of our Letʻs Talk Story program Kōkua Mau wants to get our community talking about what matters most and how to care well for those with serious illness.

Our interactive session explore how you like to make decisions, who should be involved in the type of medical care you do and don’t want. We also cover basics of advance care planning and preparing you for the conversation with loved ones. In addiction we provide notary services on site, to notarize your Advance Directive.

Kokua Mau Monthly Meeting October 2024 Canceled
2024-10-31 15:00 - 17:00
The October meeting on Halloween is cancelled for 2024.

Please join us (not for Halloween) 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.

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

Each month’s topic is announced in our eNewsletter

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

Meetings are open to all.

Note: Ocrtober has 5 Thursdays

Public Advance Care Planning Class
2024-10-02 17:30 - 19:00
Hawai’i Pacific Health is offering free online Advance Care Planning classes. Register and attend with your family and friends to learn the importance of advance care planning.

Wed Oct 25:30-7p.m on zoom

KEY AREAS OF DISCUSSION INCLUDE:

Why it is important to have early conversations on your wishes with your loved ones.

How to complete an advance directive, understanding the role of a health care power of attorney and choosing wisely.

Reviewing the difference between an advance directive and Provider Order for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) document.

Sharing the information with your loved ones and medical providers.

PLEASE NOTE: At this time, classes are only available via Zoom virtual classroom. Register with your email addressand you will receive a Zoom link. Space is limited.

Other date: Thur Dec 5, 12:30-2p.m.

Register today for this free event: HawaiiPacificHealth.org/ACP-Registration.

Kokua Mau Monthly Meeting September 2024
2024-09-26 15:00 - 17:00
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.

Last 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 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.

Advance Care Planning (ACP) Advance Directives and Provider Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) Facilitator Training (Kaua'i)
2024-08-30 08:00 - 16:30 | Wilcox Memorial Hospital, 3-3420 Kuhio Hwy, Lihue, HI, 96766, United States
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.

Course objective:

Apply advance care planning resources to promote advance care planning discussions.

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

Promote patients’ knowledge of advance directives, including healthcare Power of Attorney designation.

Implement 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.

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.

Wilcox Medical Center3420 Kuhio Hwy, Lihue, HIConference Room A

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.

Non HPH participants: Register online: https://www.hawaiipacifichealth.org/health-wellness/continuing-education/3971

Any questions, please contact Michelle Cantillo, RN, HPH ACP Coordinator via email: michelle.cantillo@hawaiipacifichealth.org.

Kokua Mau Monthly Meeting August 2024
2024-08-29 15:00 - 17:00
Great news: Dr. Matthew Gonzales, MD FAAHPM, will be our guest speaker at the Kōkua Mau meeting Thursday August 29.

Dr. Gonzales is Associate VP and Chief Medical and Operations Officer at the Providence Institute for Human Caring and will share about their innovative approach to Advance Care Planning that has dramatically increased patient engagement. The Coalition for Compassionate Care of California (CCCC) awarded the Institute For Caring their ACP Innovation Award in 2023 and Dr. Gonzales was a key note speaker at the 2024 Coalition Summit.

Dr. Gonzales will share about their “trusted decision maker” form with only two questions as an easier alternative to a formal advance directive. It is not a legal document, so no witnesses or notary is needed. But for people who don’t have an advance care directive, this quick form could be the next best thing.

“The trusted decision maker form ‘is a good-faith effort to elicit and record people’s choices for who speaks for them and their general preferences for care,’ Dr. Ira Byock, founder and chief medical officer of the Institute for Human Caring, said. ‘The best practice is for all adult patients to have an advance directive on file, but when that’s not possi

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Note: August has 5 Thursdays

Last 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

Kōkua Mau Community Presentation Kailua
2024-08-24 00:00 - 23:59
This is the second of two community presentation requested by and tailor made for Calvary Episcopal Church.

Open to the public.

Kōkua Mau’s Let’s Talk Story Program’s goal is to start and carry on the conversation in familiar settings, breaking the ice to get people talking about uncomfortable but important topics. These conversations encourage and empower people to take action around their own health care wishes and our trained ambassadors allow participants to get answers to questions and understand decisions they may need to make.The Let’s Talk Story program encourages groups to have two sessions. The two-session approach ensures good opportunities for sharing information, reflections, questions and time to talk with loved ones in-between. The two-session model allows time to evaluate follow-up actions.

Kōkua Mau will provide free notary services on Advance Directive

Public Advance Care Planning Classes
2024-08-20 12:30 - 14:00
Hawaiʻi Pacific Health is offering free online Advance Care Planning classes. Register and attend with your family and friends to learn the importance of advance care planning.

KEY AREAS OF DISCUSSION INCLUDE:

Why it is important to have early conversations on your wishes with your loved ones.

How to complete an advance directive, understanding the role of a health care power of attorney and choosing wisely.

Reviewing the difference between an advance directive and Provider Order for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) document.

Sharing the information with your loved ones and medical providers.

PLEASE NOTE: At this time, classes are only available via Zoom virtual classroom. Register with your email address and you will receive a Zoom link. Space is limited.

Other dates: Wed Oct 2, 5:30-7p.m. • Thur Dec 5, 12:30-2p.m.

Register today for this free event: HawaiiPacificHealth.org/ACP-Registration.

Kōkua Mau Community Presentation Kailua
2024-08-18 00:00 - 23:59
This is the first of two community presentation requested by and tailor made for Calvary Episcopal Church.

Open to the public.

Kōkua Mau’s Let’s Talk Story Program’s goal is to start and carry on the conversation in familiar settings, breaking the ice to get people talking about uncomfortable but important topics. These conversations encourage and empower people to take action around their own health care wishes and our trained ambassadors allow participants to get answers to questions and understand decisions they may need to make.The Let’s Talk Story program encourages groups to have two sessions. The two-session approach ensures good opportunities for sharing information, reflections, questions and time to talk with loved ones in-between. The two-session model allows time to evaluate follow-up actions.

Kōkua Mau will provide free notary services on Advance Directive

Kokua Mau Monthly Meeting July 2024
2024-07-25 15:00 - 17:00

Resources for Living & Thriving in Older Adulthood
2024-07-24 10:00 - 13:00 | Temple Emanu-El, 2550 Pali Hwy, Honolulu, HI, 96817, United States
Jewish Community Speaker Series Presents: “Resources for Living & Thriving in Older Adulthood”

Wed. July 2410am to 1:00 PMTemple Emanu-El – Social Hall2550 Pali Hwy. Nuʻuanu

Program schedule:

11:00 – 11:30: Coffee & Socializing11:30 – 12:30: Panel Presentation & Discussion (live-streamed on Temple website)12:30 – 1:00: Light lunch

RSVP for complimentary lunch to danweiss0312@gmail.com

Panelists:

Nicole Coglietta, LSW – Co-Founder, CareSift for Seniors

Jeannette Koijane, MPH – Executive Director, Kōkua Mau (Moderator)

Mimi Lind, LCSW – Executive Director, Jewish Community Services of HI

Dan Weiss, DNP, RN, CHPN – Long-time Home Health, Palliative & Hospice Nurse & Adjunct Nursing Faculty at Chaminade University of Honolulu

Download the flyer

Advance Care Planning for Healthcare Professionals Virtual Class
2024-07-23 12:30 - 15:00
This Zoom class is offered for providers, nurses, social workers, and other health care professionals to promote ACP discussions and will review key elements and processes related to ACP, Advance Directives and POLST.

Course Objectives:

Apply advance care planning resources to promote advance care planning discussions.

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

Choose one class to attend from 12:30 – 3:00 p.m.

Next date: Oct – Thur 10/3

Zoom Registration is Limited

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email after approval.

Any questions please contact Michelle Cantillo, RN, HPH ACP Coordinator at 808-535-7874 or via email michelle.cantillo@hawaiipacifichealth.org.

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

Kokua Mau Monthly Meeting June 2024
2024-06-27 15:00 - 17:00
Great news: Dr. Jared Rubenstein, a pediatric palliative care doctor and medical educator, will be our guest speaker at the Kōkua Mau meeting in June.

Thur June 279 -10:30 am note the earlier time for our speaker in Texas

Register in advance for this meeting

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Dr. Rubenstein is a wonderfully engaging speaker who is using innovative approaches to helping people communicate about challenging topics in healthcare. He is passionate about teaching all healthcare workers how to incorporate palliative care into their work, and increasing public education about palliative care. He was also recently named by AAHPM as an Emerging Leader in Hospice and Palliative Care.

Dr. Rubenstein uses a series of animated videos and social media to start conversations about challenging topics in health care, including palliative care, racism, mental health, and gender equity. To date, his videos have been viewed more than 200,000 times, and are used internationally for education and advocacy.

His first video, Palliative Care: We’re the fire department not the fire, has been seen over 59,000 times https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbNi_-wYXJE

You can explore his YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@DrJRubenstein/videos

And here is a link to his website: https://www.jaredrubensteinmd.com/

Last 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
