Kokua Mau

Kokua Mau Meeting POLST Improvements
2023-06-29 15:00 - 17:00 (Pacific/Honolulu)
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
