HAMAKUA HEALTH CENTER
(BIG ISLAND)
Funds will be used to provide free screening
mammograms and follow-up diagnostics for at least 40
eligible Big Island women 40 and over. A portion will
be used for 10% of outreach worker, mileage, educational
materials, and supplies.
KOKUA KALIHI VALLEY COMPREHENSIVE
FAMILY SERVICES
Funding will be used to increase awareness, prevention
and early detection of breast cancer among low income
Native Hawaiian, Filipina, Samoan, Micronesian and other
Asian/Pacific Islander women of Kalihi Valley through
outreach. Activities will include health fairs, culturally
appropriate breast health education sessions, training
for six peer educators, and recruitment and enabling
services. Goal is to foster better breast health for
at least 905 women.
WAIMANALO HEALTH CENTER
Funds will provide breast cancer screening to
underinsured and uninsured women ages 18 – 49 years
of age who fall outside the guidelines for the BCCCP.
Other activities will include awareness presentations
and enabling services to support women. A health fair
will also be sponsored by partnering with community agencies
during Breast Cancer Awareness month.
KAPIOLANI BREAST CENTER
Funds will be used for the only integrated program
to offer cancer risk reduction and risk management to Hawaii’s
high risk women. This program provides screening services,
quality nurse practitioner expertise, and access to uninsured
high risk women in rural areas across the state, including
Kauai, Maui, Molokai, and the Big Island.
KOOLAULOA COMMUNITY HEALTH AND
WELLNESS CENTER
Elements of the program for which funds will be
used include education for uninsured/underinsured Native
Hawaiians,
Pacific Islanders and those 65 and older; diagnostic
tests/procedures for a limited number of uninsured women
with abnormal breast findings; outreach to increase clinical
breast screenings for women 40 and older; and transportation
to increase access to services.
WAIKIKI HEALTH CENTER
Funds will provide uninsured and underinsured
Native Hawaiian, Asian, homeless girls and women, and other
women who
have high mortality rates largely due to late diagnosis
and treatment with breast health services. Clinical breast
screenings and self-exam instruction will be offered to
women and girls 14+ upon their first visit or if they have
not had a breast exam within the past 12 months.
MOLOKAI GENERAL HOSPITAL
This program seeks to improve the continuity of
breast care on Molokai and decrease the time interval from
diagnosis
to treatment through addressing the island’s disparity
factors of geographic isolation, insufficient healthcare
resources, economics, limited cancer knowledge and motivation.
Activities include navigational services, increase in
mammogram screening clinics, and community outreach.
Access to appointments for diagnostics and travel funding
will be included.
LANAI COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER
Funds will be used to expand their current Breast
Care Program by focusing on increasing the number of women
aged 40
and older to obtain mammogram screenings. Activities
include proactive outreach with phone calls and email follow-ups,
providing educational materials in Ilocano, and incentives
to encourage keeping appointments. Monthly results will
be analyzed, and approaches will vary in outreach and education
efforts as needed.
HUI MALAMA OLA NA OIWI
The program of No Ka Wahine will focus on breast
health education and cancer screenings and diagnostics
for native Hawaiians, Pacific Islanders, and Filipino women
35 years and older. Women in the most rural areas of Puna,
Kau, Kona, and Kahala who are uninsured or underinsured
and in need of clinical breast and mammography exam will
be specifically targeted. A health fair in Hilo, bringing
together physicians and organizations to provide breast
health and breast cancer education, clinical screenings
and exams, resources for cancer-diagnosed women, and
follow-up support assistance by trained cancer patient
navigators will kick off the program. Primary care clinical
staff will then go mobile to four rurally located satellite
offices.
HAWAII MEDICAL CENTER
Funds will be used to continue breast cancer services
to medically underserved women ages 40 – 49, with
focus on Native Hawaiian, Asian, and Pacific Island women.
The project will provide free screening mammograms, clinical
breast exams, and culturally appropriate breast health
education and information to women who fall outside the
BCCCP.
QUEEN’S MEDICAL CENTER
(MOLOKAI SURVIVORS)
Funds will be used to expand
the Queen’s comprehensive,
multidisciplinary Cancer Survivorship Program to Molokai
using web-based technology. Time constraints, finances,
and geographic barriers prohibit Molokai residents from
access to healthcare for breast cancer survivors. In
collaboration with Molokai general Hospital, activities,
such as video teleconferencing, breast cancer survivors
will be able to participate in survivorship care and
programs and breast cancer support groups.
PACIFIC CANCER CENTER
Funds will be used to establish a patient navigation
system for breast cancer patients on Maui. Goal is to
support patients physically, emotionally, spiritually,
financially and logistically as they navigate their journey
with breast cancer and ensure that all community resources
are available to them. Patient advocacy will be included.
BAY CLINIC
Funds would be used
to provide free mammograms and follow-up diagnostics and
referral to uninsured/under-insured Native Hawaiian, Asian,
and Pacific Island women.