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Hui Pohala’s fiscal sponsor is Kokua Mau, a 501(c)3 organization. The EIN is 99-0339201. 

Please make check payable to:  Kokua Mau and indicate HUI POHALA on memo line
Mail to:  Hui Pohala ℅ Kokua Mau  • PO Box 62155 • Honolulu, HI 96839

OR you can donate online

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Your generous donations will help to fund:

1. Collection and analysis of data in order to:
  • Demonstrate the need for palliative care services, by island and region
  • Establish a baseline and measures to track progress toward increasing access
  • Track the  positive impact of expanding access on a regional basis
  • Track size and location of trained palliative care workforce and the links between specialty palliative care and primary care, by island
2. Mentoring for:
  • Rural home-based agencies which provide palliative care  
  • Palliative care leadership development
3. Financial support for:
  • Workforce training and communities of learning
  • Strengthening linkages between specialty palliative care and rural primary care
4. Reports
  • Annual report which tracks progress, using the initial report as a baseline
  • Special report: palliative care and underserved communities

Learn more or Volunteer:

Work on Hui Pohala work teams:

Contact Crystal Costa, ccosta@huipohala.org or Rae Seitz, rseitz@huipohala.org

Stay connected with the coalition:

Proposed initial tactics of the work teams:

Preliminary plan for work teams to reduce barriers to access:

1. Expanding and strengthening the palliative care workforce
  • Promoting palliative care skills via online or in-person training for all providers, including physicians, physician assistants, nursing, social work, and chaplaincy
  • Leveraging/expanding existing curriculums in Hawaii-based professional schools
  • Strengthening links between specialty palliative care and primary care providers
2. Growing awareness of the value of palliative care for providers
  • Working with medical and specialty societies to share information
  • Engaging primary care providers and specialists around the benefits of palliative care for their patients with serious illness
  • Popularizing stories which reflect improved quality of life and satisfaction of patients/families who received palliative care and the providers who referred them
3. Growing public awareness of the value of palliative care for people, families, caregivers
  • Reviewing CAPC research on messaging, then promoting clear and simple messages, identifying and using secondary messages for more precise focus on target audience
  • Customizing communication materials for specific communities
  • Maximizing regional networks for community outreach
  • Developing materials to inform policy makers
4. Facilitating the development of a common model, standards, and measures for palliative care of seriously ill patients
  • Review, summarize, and share relevant literature and “model” programs
  •  Facilitate stakeholder dialogue to reach consensus on the essential palliative care standards including required roles, services, and functions 
  • Facilitate stakeholder dialogue to reach consensus on key measures of access, quality, value and outcomes
5. Developing sustainable financing of palliative care
  • Addressing current misaligned of payment 
  • Demonstrating the business case for PC
  • Supporting organizational capacity to provide high quality palliative care
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PO Box 62155 Honolulu, HI 96839
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