KOKUA MAU INC

Statewide Network. Since 1999, Kokua Mau has served as a statewide coalition to help those facing serious illness and their loved ones. Our actively managed website has accurate information care planning, including advanced directives and post, palliative care, Hospice care, and grief and bereavement services. This information is free of charge and is used widely across the state. Our newsletter goes out on a regular basis sharing information, resources and training for those involved with serious illness care. We also conduct regular training, meetings and palliative care clinical case discussions for the entire community. We work with providers, health plans, long term care facilities, state agencies, and other stakeholders to keep serious illness care on the agenda in various policy and program areas. We also answer questions from the public and professionals on Advance Care Planning, POLST, palliative care, hospice, bereavement, mortuaries and other related topics.

Advanced care planning (ACP) including POLST. Kokua Mau's ACP program conducts workshops and training to make conversations about serious illness the norm in our community. Our ACP coordinator conducts community training across the state for the public and for professionals. Because of the pandemic, many sessions shifted to zoom but we have now begun in person sessions again. Kokua Mau is the coordinator for the POLST program, an out-of-hospital medical order that documents patients' medical orders. Kokua Mau's website is the official site for the program. Kokua Mau does education and outreach for professionals and public across the state, staffs the POLST leadership task force and serves on national committees. The Executive Director has been elected to serve on the National POLST Board.