Kokua Mau

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

Apply advance care planning resources to promote ACP discussions

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

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

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

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

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

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

For CE information please download the PDF flyer

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

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

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

Nechama: The Jewish Path of Comfort at the End of Life
2023-10-16 12:00 - 13:30
Chevra Kadisha Hawaii and Kōkua Mau invite you to Nechama: the Jewish Path of Comfort at the End of Life. Zoom details in our flyer.

There is a Jewish understanding that runs deeper than religious belief, a guide for both the dying and the living. The annual ceremonial cycle includes a collective life review in recognition of personal mortality, remembrance of ancestors and comfort for mourners. Although there are many different ways to interpret and express our Jewish identity, it supports us during times of transition.

Please join us for a webinar with Holly Blue Hawkins a Natural Deathcare advocate, educator, community organizer, cemeterian, author and poet who provides education and training to both Jewish and non-Jewish audiences.

Holly Blue is a Natural Deathcare advocate, educator, community organizer, cemeterian, author and poet. In 2022 she co-created and launched two twelve-module courses on the subject of Natural Burial: in partnership with Lee Webster The Green Burial Master Class; and with David Zinner Jewish And Green: Cemetery Management For The 21st Century. As Gamliel Institute graduate and retired faculty, Final Passages graduate, member of the Conservation Burial Alliance, Rosha Chevra Kadisha (Head of Jewish Burial Society), past member of the Board of Trustees of the Funeral Consumers Alliance of California and independent consultant.

With over 40 years of experience in end-of-life subjects, Holly Blue provides education and training to both Jewish and secular audiences. She has visited countless natural burial sites from England to Hawaiʻi, presented at international conferences, trained home funeral guides, consulted with cemetery management and mortuary personnel, taught community college extension courses and is a passionate advocate for environmentally sustainable and culturally-sensitive burial practices.

Advance Care Planning Classes Honolulu
2023-10-10 12:00 - 16:30
This class is offered for physicians, nurses, social workers and other clinicians. It promotes ACP introductions and will review key elements and processes related to ACP, Advance Directives and POLST in the clinic.

Course Objectives:

Apply ACP resources to promote advance care planning discussions.

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

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

Implement and standardize ACP processes.

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

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

Wed Oct 18Noon to 4 PM

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

Other future date: Wed, 12/6

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Thur Sept 293 – 4:30 pm

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

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

Wed. Sept 205:15 pm – 7:00 pm

Project Dana’s Public Presentation Meetings
2023-08-12 09:30 - 11:30
Kōkua Mauʻs own Hope Young, Advance care Coordinator:The Conversation on Advance Care Planning (ACP)

Sat Aug 129:30 am to 11:30 amZoom and Waipahu Hongwanji Buddhist Temple

94-821 Kuhaulua Street, Waipahu, HI 96797

Part 1: Learn that it is much more than completing one’s Advance Directive: it also includes the ongoing discussions we have with our loved one concerning our decisions for future healthcare.

Zoom links will be provided by inquiry. Please call or e-mail if you are interested on attending public presentations or need more information about the program: Maria Morales, Program Coordinator (808) 945-3736 cgsg@projectdana.org

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

We will continue to meet virtually on zoom in 2023

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

How does Palliative Pupus work?

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

What is Palliative Pupus?

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

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

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

Course Objectives:

Apply ACP resources to promote advance care planning discussions.

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

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

Implement and standardize ACP processes.

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

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

Wed July 19Noon to 4 PM

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Speakers:

Dr. Daniel Fischberg – Improvements to the POLST form

Dr. Libby Char – POLST and First Responders

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

Q&A

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

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

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

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

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

Quick overview: YouTube Channel

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

An Ecosystem of Advance Care Planning with Jessica Zan

Preparing Healthcare Providers for Age-Friendly Patient Empowerment

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

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

What is a Death Doula?

Advance Care Planning for Native Hawaiian Kūpuna with Puni Kekauoha

Innovations in Advance Care Planning

Kōkua Mauʻs Palliative Care Awareness Committee

Palliative Care PR: Exploring new message strategies

2023 ACT Index Report and what this data means for Hawaii

Grieving Lahaina: Past and Present

Radical Death Studies & the Association for Death Education and Counseling

Highlights Kōkua Mau Activities 2023

Quick overview Kōkua Mau Website

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

Updates from Maui Hospice about the fires and the community response

What is the Kūpuna Collective?

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

Bereavement Network of Hawaii – What is it?

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

Palliative Care Nursing Education at Chaminade University of Honolulu

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

Ohana Pacific Medical a Medical Clinic in Your Home

Advance Care Planning Billing and Coding for Billing Clinicians

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

A Caregivers Journey with Palliative Care in 3 minutes

Prognostication and Palliative Care

LymphaCare Hawaii advocates for cancer survivors who develop lymphedema

Palliative Care – Extra Support for People with Cancer

A Caregivers Journey with Palliative Care

VA Resources for Seriously Ill Veterans in Hawaii

Veterans Benefits and Entitlements

Palliative Care Awareness Campaign on Instagram in Hawaii

Advance Care Planning Innovations in Community Outreach in Hawaii

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

An Update on Hawaii’s Our Care Our Choice Act

Innovations in Palliative Care

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

Funerals and Memorials in the times of COVID-19

Mapping Palliative Care in the State of Hawaii

Palliative Care Summit in Hawaii 2020

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

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

How to Help Your Older Parent

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

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

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

Quick overview: YouTube Channel additions

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

An Ecosystem of Advance Care Planning with Jessica Zan

Preparing Healthcare Providers for Age-Friendly Patient Empowerment

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

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

What is a Death Doula?

Advance Care Planning for Native Hawaiian Kūpuna with Puni Kekauoha

Innovations in Advance Care Planning

Kōkua Mauʻs Palliative Care Awareness Committee

Palliative Care PR: Exploring new message strategies

2023 ACT Index Report and what this data means for Hawaii

Grieving Lahaina: Past and Present

Radical Death Studies & the Association for Death Education and Counseling

Highlights Kōkua Mau Activities 2023

Quick overview Kōkua Mau Website

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

Updates from Maui Hospice about the fires and the community response

What is the Kūpuna Collective?

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

Bereavement Network of Hawaii – What is it?

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

Palliative Care Nursing Education at Chaminade University of Honolulu

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

Ohana Pacific Medical a Medical Clinic in Your Home

Advance Care Planning Billing and Coding for Billing Clinicians

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

A Caregivers Journey with Palliative Care in 3 minutes

Prognostication and Palliative Care

LymphaCare Hawaii advocates for cancer survivors who develop lymphedema

Palliative Care – Extra Support for People with Cancer

A Caregivers Journey with Palliative Care

VA Resources for Seriously Ill Veterans in Hawaii

Veterans Benefits and Entitlements

Palliative Care Awareness Campaign on Instagram in Hawaii

Advance Care Planning Innovations in Community Outreach in Hawaii

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

An Update on Hawaii’s Our Care Our Choice Act

Innovations in Palliative Care

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

Funerals and Memorials in the times of COVID-19

Mapping Palliative Care in the State of Hawaii

Palliative Care Summit in Hawaii 2020

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

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

How to Help Your Older Parent

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

We will continue to meet virtually on zoom in 2023

How does Palliative Pupus work?

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

What is Palliative Pupus?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Course Objectives:

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

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

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

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

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

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

5:00 to 7:30 PM HST

Register in advance, deadline: 03/06/2023

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

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

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

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

Kokua Mau Meeting March 2023
2023-03-23 15:00 - 17:00
Please note the March 23 meeting will be the 4th Thursday of the month (not out usual last Thursday of the month)

CHW are a valuable resource in our communities, connecting people with resources and being a bridge to health care and providers. Learn more about CHW and the valuable work they do and help and strategize about ways CHW can help those with serious illness at our next Kōkua Mau Meeting.

Thur March 23, 2023 (this month on the 4th Thursday)3:00-5:00 PM (HST)

Agenda, part 1

What is a Community Health worker, what training do they have and how can you be a practicum site? Hilary Hacker, Director of the Community Health Education Program, Kapiʻolani Community College

What roles do CHW play at Queens? Mia Taylor, MSN, FNP-BC, APRN-Rx; Director, Community & Post-Acute Care Services, The Queen’s Health System

What Does a CHW do? Martha Boyd, CHW, Patient Community Navigator, Super Utilizer, Queen’s Care Coalition, The Queen’s Medical Center

Advance Care Planning for CHWs. Hope Young, ACP Coordinator, Kōkua Mau

High School Academies and palliative care training. Naomi Morita, MD, VP, Hui Pōhala and Dan Weiss, DNP, RN, CHPN, Adjunct Faculty, Chaminade University, School of Nursing & Health Professions

Discussion: How could CHW help in serious illness care?

Agenda Part 2

Palliative care (PC) nursing education initiatives (including using ELNEC curricula and developing a new PC minor) at Chaminade University – Dan Weiss will present an update.

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

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

Palliative Pupus March 2023
2023-03-15 17:15 - 19:00

Advance Care Planning (ACP), Advance Directives and Provider Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) Facilitator Training Kauaʻi
2023-03-15 08:00 - 16:30
This training is offered for nurses, physicians, social workers and other clinicians and focuses on communication skills to improve ACP discussions. The class will review key elements and processes related to ACP, advance directives and POLST development.

Course Objectives:

Apply advance care planning resources to promote ACP discussions

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

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

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

comfort care

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

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

Wed March 15 Kaua‘i8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m

Wilcox Medical Center Conference Room A3-3420 Kuhio Hwy

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

March 8+ Learning from Dr. Mitsuo Aoki: Understanding and working with people with terminal illness
2023-03-08 17:00 - 19:30
Introducing a video, discussion and teaching series focused on working with individuals with serious and terminal illness. The sessions are based on actual classes of Dr. Aoki teaching filmed in 1987 and two interviews of Dr. Aoki working with Roger who has been diagnosed with a terminal illness. Kōkua Mau will also present on advanced health care planning on April 12.

Course Objectives:

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

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

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

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

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

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

5:00 to 7:30 PM HST

Register in advance, deadline: 03/06/2023

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

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

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

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

Kokua Mau Meeting February 2023 Compassionate Care and Evidence-Based Practice: Is it possible for them to co-exist?
2023-02-23 15:00 - 17:00
Compassionate Care and Evidence-Based Practice: Is it possible for them to co-exist?

Please join us on Thursday 2/23 for a presentation by Steven Ito our own Dr. Pat Nishimoto.

Steven Ito, FNP-c, CEO Ohana Pacific Medical, will be sharing about their innovative practice that combines home visits and a kupuna health clinic. They were using telehealth and telemonitoring before the pandemic and work with all health plans to address isolation, lack of transportation and difficulties in accessing medical resources. Steven’s training in Family Medicine and clinical experiences in the Urgent Care setting led to his passion in specializing in Home Visit Based Programs for Kupuna. To learn more visit www.ohanapacificmedical.org

Dr. Pat Nishimoto, Oncology Nurse Specialist at Tripler for many decades and recently (kinda) retired.

EBP has come to dominate in clinical practice – seeing research evidence as knowledge while silencing other conceptions of knowledge!

What happens when there is no known research on alleviating pain experience of a patient and he/she asks you about complementary medicine?

What happens when we do not believe the patient’s story because it does not fit in an EBP frame of knowledge? Do they become invisible because we invalidate their experience?

To get ready for this interesting topic, here is an updated lit review

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9116004/pdf/12904_2022_Article_942.pdf

Register in advance for the monthly meeting. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email with details on how to join the zoom 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 for the specific month. As the date draws close and the speakers or topics are confirmed we will post it here.

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

Kokua Mau Meeting January 2023
2023-01-26 15:00 - 17:00
Optimizing Advance Care Planning Billing and Coding & Updates on Proposed Reimbursement Models for Palliative Care Services

Please join us on January 26 for a presentation by Torrie Fields, CEO at Votive Health and Strategic Advisor to C-TAC. This session helps social workers and their teams understand how to get reimbursed for advance care planning services and document for qualified visits. She will discuss additional reimbursement opportunities for palliative care providers and their teams through current state policy efforts to expand access to team-based palliative care services for QUEST beneficiaries.

Join our monthly Kōkua Mau Meeting to network with colleagues, share your updates and hear about what is happening across the state to improve care for those with serious illness.

Palliative Pupus January 2023
2023-01-18 17:15 - 19:00
This month we’ll hear about the challenges in providing palliative care for a hospitalized young adult with a devastating neurological injury from our colleagues at Pali Momi.

We will continue to meet virtually on zoom in 2023

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.

World AIDS Day 2022
2022-12-01 18:00 - 20:30
World AIDS Day 2022, December 1 this year will be a hybrid meeting hosted by Church of the Crossroads at 1212 University Ave.

After 2 years of zoom only we are excited to announce this hybrid event starting at 6 PM with music, hula and the Suzanne Richmond-Crum Award 2022. Zoom details and the final program will be announced soon in our newsletter and the website World AIDS Day Hawai’i.

For those who will be able to attend in person: a reception in Weaver Hall with pupus and entertainment will follow. Hawaii panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt and other local artists will also be represented.

Kokua Mau Meeting December 2022
2022-12-01 15:00 - 17:00
We will feature a special guest, a talk by Dr. Ilan Bernstein at our December 1 on zoom at our combined Nov & Dec meeting.

Thur Dec 1, 20223:00-5 PM

Please join us on December 1st for a talk by Dr. Ilan Bernstein titled “Psychedelic Medicine & Palliative Care: An Exploration of Old and Ancient Therapies To Address Twenty-First Century Clinical Challenges.”

Psychedelic-assisted therapy (PAT) is an investigational treatment for a number of mental health conditions which has gained a growing interest across a variety of settings and disciplines.

Dr. Ilan Bernstein joined the Pain and Palliative Care Dept at the Queen’s Medical Center as a staff physician in 2013. Dr. Bernstein graduated from the Keck School of Medicine of USC in 2008 and is currently board certified in Internal Medicine and Hospice and Palliative Medicine. He is an assistant clinical professor in the departments of Internal Medicine and Geriatrics at JABSOM. Dr. Bernstein is a member of the American College of Physicians and the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine.

If you are interested in reading more about psylosibins and serious illness care, here is an article by Dr. Ira Byock on the CAP website. Additionally, Dr. Bernstein was a co-author on an journal article Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians should know about Psychedelic-Assisted therapy in the context of serious illness.

Palliative Pupus November 2022
2022-11-16 17:15 - 19:00
You are invited to join us Palliative Pupus on zoom, our exciting local networking and clinical education opportunity. If you are involved with palliative care cases or would like to learn what palliative care actually is, you are invited.

Wed. Nov 165:15 pm – 7:00

This month Hospice Maui will present. Details about the case for Palliative Pupus will be announced in the next newsletter.

The Benefits of Palliative Care for Your Loved One
2022-11-10 10:00 - 11:00
Navian Hawaii Community Connect Educational Series was designed to connect caregivers with community partners and resources to address a variety of topics from care planning to self-care to specialized care. The one-hour webinars are open to anyone who provides care to someone with a chronic or disabling health condition, whether you are family, a friend or a professional caregiver. The monthly series provides valuable guidance, strategies and resources from experts within the community.

Speakers: Hope Young and Jeannette Koijane

For more information and to register

Help Your Seriously Ill Patients Get the Best Care Possible - Webinar
2022-11-09 12:00 - 13:00
In honor of National National Hospice & Palliative Care Month in November register for a Free, Interactive CE Webinar.

Wed Nov 912:00-1:00 PM

Register here. Non-members of Hi-ANA will need to make a free account to attend this webinar, once registered you will receive the Zoom invite confirmation.

Presenters: Dan Weiss, DNP, RN, CHP, Kōkua Mau Member, Adjunct Nursing Faculty Chaminade University

And Kōkua Mauʻs own Jeannette Koijane, MPH Executive Director

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If the unexpected happens who would speaks for you
2022-09-30 10:00 - 11:00
Join us for an Advance Care Planning presentation by Kōkua Mauʻs very own Hope Young for AARP.

One of the best gifts family members can give to one another is the gift of advance care planning. Taking the time to do this can help avoid family in-fighting and prevent families from having to guess what a loved one wants during a health crises or serious illness.

Learn how to document your wishes in an Advance Health Care Directive.Get tips on how to engage in family conversations around this issue.

Register for this free event with AARP at https://events.aarp.org/care9-30

Kōkua Mau Meeting September 2022
2022-09-29 15:00 - 17:00
Our very own Kōkua Mau Board president Dr. Daniel Fischberg will present about Prognostication

Thur Sept 293:00-5 PM

Estimating and communicating prognosis, while often challenging, is often an essential part of care for those living with serious illness. Patients, family members, and providers, all need good prognostic information on which to base important decisions. In this introductory presentation on the subject, we will cover the following learning objectives:

Describe aspects of prognosticationReview general guidance when discussing prognosisList tools and special considerations for a variety of situations

Register here in advance. After registering, you immediately receive a confirmation email with details on how to join the zoom meeting.

Join our monthly Kōkua Mau Meeting to network with colleagues, share your updates and hear about what is happening across the state to improve care for those with serious illness.

Palliative Pupus Sept 2022
2022-09-21 05:15 - 19:00
You are invited to join us Palliative Pupus, our exciting local networking and clinical education opportunity. If you are involved with palliative care cases or would like to learn what palliative care actually is, you are invited.

This month our colleagues at Kapi‘olani will present a pediatric case. Details about the case for Palliative Pupus will be announced in the next newsletter.

Wed. Sept 215:15 pm – 7:00 pm

Register in advance for Palliative Pupus zoom meeting. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Kōkua Mau Meeting
2022-07-28 15:00 - 17:00
Join us to network with colleagues, share your updates and hear about what is happening across the state to improve care for those with serious illness.

Thur July 28, 20223:00-5 PM

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

If you have announcements to share, please let Jeannette know!!

Palliative Pupus
2022-07-20 05:15 - 19:00
Our exciting local bi-monthly networking and clinical education opportunity. Come participate in an interactive interdisciplinary story from the cutting edge of hospice and palliative care and mingle with colleagues on zoom. If you are involved with palliative care cases, you are invited. Please tell your colleagues and friends.

This month Navian will be presenting a complex case featuring delirium, insomnia, existential distress and psycho-social issues impacting the patient and lone caregiver.

Wed July 20, 20225:15 pm – 7:00 pm

Register in advance for Palliative Pupus zoom meeting. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
