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Kokua Mau Meeting & Holiday Party - January 28, 2016
Happy 2016!

 

We hope you can join us for our first Kokua Mau meeting of the year that will also be our holiday party.  Better late than never or just in time for Chinese/Lunar New Year.  We will have a short agenda with updates and then we'll have lots of time for networking.  This will be a potluck so bring something (anything) to share.  Back by popular demand, we'll be having a white elephant gift table so now is the time to pass along those items that someone else is sure to want!  

Please notice that we will go on until 7pm so we hope you can drop in after work if you cannot come at the regular meeting time!     

Thursday, Jan. 28, 2016  
3pm-7pm 
Conference Room 224 
Weinberg Building 
St. Francis Healthcare System of Hawai'i 
2226 Liliha Street in Honolulu

Parking is validated and click here for a map and further details.  Please RSVP to Jeannette so I can get a basic headcount (but you can certainly come even if you didn't RSVP.)  Now is a great chance to invite colleagues who have been wondering who and what Kokua Mau is. 

Sneak peak:
Our speaker in February will be Kristin Lambert Bryant, Esq. She will cover the complicated topic: "Deciding What If?" Legal tools to plan for incapacity and transferring assets upon death.   
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The Body Show on HPR2: Supportive Care

Kokua Mau Resources in Multiple Languages

Stanford University Free Course

Your Health Care Wishes Smartphone App
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The Body Show on HPR2: Supportive Care

In case you missed it: The Body Show 1/12 with Dr. Kathy Kozak on HPR2 was about Supportive Care. Kokua Mau's own Dr. Daniel Fischberg, Queens Medical Center, Dr. Ritabelle Fernandes and Aimee Cama, Islands Hospice, took part and were available to answer questions. You can listen to the show streaming.
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Update on the translation project:

Six key documents will soon be available in ten languages: Chinese (traditional), Chinese (simplified), Ilocano, Japanese, Korean, Marshallese, Spanish, Tagalog, Tongan and Vietnamese.

Our translation project is almost complete. Stay tuned. We will be uploading the documents and languages as they become available. We are looking forward to offer these great resources to our whole community:
  • Hawaii Advance Healthcare Directive
  • Advance directive explanatory information sheet
  • Consumer guide to POLST
  • POLST Form for Hawaii
  • Questions about CPR
  • Tube Feeding

Thanks to the hui of sponsors who made this project possible:  HMSA, Kaiser Permanente, Hawaii Health Systems Corporation (HHSC), AlohaCare, United Healthcare, Ohana Health Plan, the Executive Office on Aging, and University Health Alliance (UHA).   
smart_appYour Health Care Wishes Smartphone App

With some very creative people, the Commission on Law and Aging created a smartphone app called My Health Care Wishes to give individuals and their family members the ability to store their own and each other's health care advance directives, key health information, and health care contacts on their Apple or Android smartphones, and to send advance directive documents directly to health care providers by email or Bluetooth.  www.MyHealthCareWishes.org
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Stanford Free interdisciplinary online course on palliative care

Stanford Health Care in conjunction with Stanford University has designed a FREE interdisciplinary online course for palliative care for health care practitioners who work in cancer care. More
I hope to see you Thursday and Happy New Year!!

Jeannette Koijane
Executive Director
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