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SUMMARY:How the New Benefit Helps You and Your Family - Webinar 4
DESCRIPTION:This year (2025)\, Hawaii became the first state in the nation to offer community-based palliative care for Medicaid (Med-QUEST) beneficiaries. \n\n\n\nPalliative care is now available as soon as a patient is diagnosed with a serious illness as a covered preventative benefit. It is available for patients who may be receiving curative treatments but need the extra support that a palliative care team can provide. (Click here for official documents and a 3-page summary.) \n\n\n\nThrough a grant from Hui Pohala\, Kōkua Mau has produced a series of four webinars to help healthcare professionals and members of managed care plans optimize this valuable\, new benefit. \n\n\n\nPlease help us spread the word and share this announcement with colleagues. To learn more about palliative care\, visit our Palliative Care pages.  \n\n\n\n\nPlease register for each webinar separately. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWebinar #4: \n\n\n\nHow the New Med-QUEST Community Palliative Care Benefit Helps You and Your FamilyThur April 3\, 2025Noon – 1pm \n\n\n\n\nRegister for April 3!\n\n\n\n\nJoin us to learn more about this innovative Community Palliative Care Benefit that increases the care and support available for people with serious illness.  \n\n\n\nThe webinar will help people with Med-QUEST and those who care for them learn about what palliative care is\, who qualifies for the benefit and how to access it in terms that are easy to understand. The session is for the public and all are welcome. \n\n\n\nSpeakers: \n\n\n\nDr. Daniel Fischberg has served as the Medical Director of the Pain and Palliative Care Department at The Queen’s Medical Center for more than 20 years and is Chief of the Division of Palliative Medicine and Professor of Geriatric Medicine at the John A. Burns School of Medicine.  \n\n\n\nAnita Jewell\, RN.  Anita Jewell’s nursing career spans 40+ years. In 1984 a 2-week vacation in Hawaiʻi turned into a permanent move after acquiring a nursing position at the Queen’s Medical Center. After 15 years at QMC’s Cardiovascular ICU\, she spent the next 20 years navigating the realms of Case Management\, Administration and Population Management. The combination of clinical and administrative experiences has led to unique opportunities to participate in community projects dealing with population health\, health management\, access to care and transitions of care. \n\n\n\nDiane DeBernardo\, APRN \n\n\n\nCecilia Ortiz\, LSCW \n\n\n\nHope Young is the Advance Care Planning Coordinator for Kōkua Mau. Hope joined Kōkua Mau in 2017 and is a founding member of the Palliative Care Awareness Committee\, established in 2021. She provides education and awareness about conversations and documentation about what matters most. Hope has worked with seniors and their loved ones in various capacities throughout her career and enjoys being out in the community.  \n\n\n\nVideo: a siblings experience with Palliative Care for their mother. 
URL:https://kokuamau.org/event/how-the-new-benefit-helps-you-and-your-family-webinar-4/
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SUMMARY:Advance Care Planning (ACP)\, Advance Directives and Provider Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) Facilitator Training (April)
DESCRIPTION:This training is offered for nurses\, physicians\, social workers\, and other clinicians and focuses on communication skills to improve ACP discussions. The class will review key elements and processes related to ACP\, advance directives and POLST development. \n\n\n\nCourse Objectives: \n\n\n\n\nApply advance care planning resources to promote advance care planning discussions.\n\n\n\nEngage the multi-disciplinary team to patient-centered discussion addressing advance care planning.\n\n\n\nPromote patients’ knowledge of advance directives\, including healthcare Power of Attorney designation.\n\n\n\nImplement correct documentation of Provider Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST)-Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)\, Do Not Attempt Resuscitation (DNAR)\, full and limited treatment\, time-limited trials and Comfort Care.\n\n\n\nPromote correct process of ACP documents\, access and utilization in your organization.\n\n\n\nIdentify end-of-life options including Hawai‘i’ requirements on Medical Aid in Dying\, Our Care\, Our Choice Act.\n\n\n\n\nFirst Insurance Center (FIC)\, Education Department1100 Ward Ave\, Honolulu\, HI 96814 \n\n\n\nChoose one day to attend from 0800-1630 \n\n\n\n\nDownload the flyer\n\n\n\n\nTue June 17\, 2025\, FIC 970 • Mon Sept 15\, 2025\, FIC 630 \n\n\n\nRegistration: HPH employees: Manager’s approval is required prior to registering AND register online through HPH Learning Center (HLC). Type in catalog: Advance Care Planning or POLST; Select course: HPH – Advance Care Planning\, Advance Directives and Facilitator Certification \n\n\n\nNon HPH participants: Register online: https://www.hawaiipacifichealth.org/health-wellness/continuing- education/. Any questions contact Michelle Cantillo\, RN\, HPH ACP Coordinator via email michelle.cantillo@hawaiipacifichealth.org.
URL:https://kokuamau.org/event/advance-care-planning-acp-advance-directives-and-provider-orders-for-life-sustaining-treatment-polst-facilitator-training-april/
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SUMMARY:Kokua Mau Meeting April 2025
DESCRIPTION:Stacie Sinclair\, CAPC’s Associate Director\, Policy and Care Transformation will present the finding from CAPC’s Serious Illness Scorecard that rates each state’s capacity to deliver high-quality care to people living with a serious illness\, and their families and caregivers. It provides an in-depth report on each state’s palliative care landscape and offers actionable recommendations to improve palliative care access in each state or region. \n\n\n\nDiscussion objectives are: \n\n\n\n\nDescribe national trends in palliative care access\n\n\n\nDescribe the methodology used to determine Hawaii’s score\n\n\n\nLeverage the Scorecard and individual state report to identify\, prioritize\, and advance initiatives to increase palliative care access in Hawaii\n\n\n\n\nClick here to see the scorecard \n\n\n\nThere is lots happening with palliative care in Hawaii and nationally and this scorecard offers interesting insights. It will also be an indicator to watch in the years ahead. \n\n\n\nPlease join us for our Virtual Monthly Meeting on zoom\, to learn\, laugh\, mingle and network. Subscribe to our eNewsletter for the most up-to-date information and zoom log-ins. A recording of many of our meetings are available on our YouTube channel\, in case you might have missed it. \n\n\n\nLast Thursday of the month* from 3 to 5 pm (on zoom)\n\n\n\nEach month’s topic is announced in our eNewsletter \n\n\n\nEach month we have updates about events in the community and one or more guest speakers. \n\n\n\nMeetings are open to all. \n\n\n\n*Please note that there are always months with five Thursdays. The meeting is on that last (5th) Thursday of that month (except November & December when we have a combined meeting after Thanksgiving).
URL:https://kokuamau.org/event/kokua-mau-meeting-april-2025/
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