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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
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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
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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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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
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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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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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