From a June 16, 2016 press release from the Governor’s office
With Governor Ige and key legislators who supported the bill is Gerald Silva, representing AARP.
Governor David Ige today signed into law HB 2252 (ACT 69) that will require hospitals to adopt and maintain written discharge policies that are consistent with recent updates to federal regulations. The new law requires hospitals to explain and demonstrate medical and nursing tasks required of family caregivers once the patient returns home from the hospital.
The CARE Act recognizes the critical role of Hawai‘i’s unpaid family caregivers who keep family members and friends out of costly institutions, providing them with the tools to safely and efficiently care for loved ones at home.
The CARE Act features three provisions:
- The caregiver’s name is recorded when a loved one is admitted to the hospital.
- The caregiver is notified if the hospital is transferring the patient to another facility or releasing them.
- The hospital offers to instruct the caregiver on how to perform tasks at home once the loved one is discharged from the hospital. Tasks include medication management, injections and wound care.
“Many of our residents have no other option but to care for their loved ones at home. The CARE Act is crucial in giving families support, guidance and peace of mind as they care for family members and loved ones in the home,” said Gov. Ige.
With Governor Ige’s signature, Hawai‘i becomes the 27th state in the nation (plus Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands) to support the CARE Act, to establish minimum hospital discharge standards across the board, to ease the transition from hospital to home.
The CARE Act receives no financial appropriation.
Ace and Denise Ellinwood, and Rochelle Uchibori
Honolulu Theater For Youth Sneak Peek on June 28, 2016
Honolulu Theater for Youth treated guests to a HTY Season Sneak Peek of plays from its 2016-2017 season at Tenney Theater. The afternoon also featured live readings from some of Hawaii’s actors.
Bruce “Ace” Ellinwood flew with the 199th Fighter Squadron for many years.
Military Retirees, Annuitants and Former Spouses –
The Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS) June 2016 Retiree Newsletter is ready for your review. It contains important information about auditing your account, educating your beneficiaries, managing your retired pay account, and notifying DFAS of life changing events.
To access the newsletter, click on the URL below
http://www.dfas.mil/retiredmilitary/newsevents/newsletter.html
You will find a list of topics in the newsletter with a brief description of each article.
Connecting your docs with the Virtual Lifetime Electronic Record (VLER) Health program shares important parts of your Veteran health record between the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and your community health care providers who participate in this program. This allows your health care providers to access important information about your health, so they can provide you the best possible care.
This exchange occurs over a secure and private network known as the eHealth Exchange. This program is free and voluntary for Veterans, but VA needs your consent to share your health records (VA Form 10-0485).
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If you have technical difficulties, please call 1-800-983-0937 for assistance.
If you have not already joined, go to the eBenefits website and sign up (It’s free)!
Thank you for agreeing to share your VA health data with your providers and, as always, we thank you for your service!
Sincerely,
The VLER Health National Program Office
The World Health Organization declared February 1 that the Zika virus is a public health emergency of international concern. Zika is primarily transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes. Unlike other mosquitoes, Aedes mosquitoes are aggressive day biters but can also bite at night. The number of countries and territories with Zika transmitted locally is growing. Pregnant women are encouraged to take every precaution to prevent mosquito bites, especially in the first trimester.
For more information, visit the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Zika virus website. A list of areas with active, mosquito-borne transmission of the Zika virus is available on the CDC website.
From the Military.com website
28 June 16
Aloha to the Retiree News Community. I am retiring after an amazing 34 year career in the Air Force and Hawaii Air National Guard. Though I spent time throughout my career wondering how I would be on this day, I feel happy, at peace and ready for life’s next adventure.
Thank you to my wife and family for their undying support.
Thank you to all of you who have mentored me and preceded me into retirement. Your encouragement, advice and most of all, your happy faces have prepared me for this momentous day.
It’s been my honor to be a part of such a tremendous organization.
Mahalo Nui Loa,
Brig Gen Joe Kim, Retired
Retiree News welcomes General Kim to the military retiree ranks. Thank you for your service to America.
The general currently serves as the Deputy Director of the State Department of Taxation.
The June 2016 issue of the Office of Veterans Services newsletter is out.
This issue’s articles include:
Centennial of the First World War
Director’s Message
Memorial Day Service at the West Hawaii Veterans Cemetery
The Governor’s Memorial Day Service
Read this month’s issue OVS newsletter June 2016
Across the globe, the longevity of people is steadily lengthening. Female life expectancy, which exceeds that of males by a narrowing margin, has climbed by approximately three months per year for the last 160 years. In 1840 in Sweden, for instance, the leading country for enjoying a long life at the time, life expectancy was about 45 years; in 2014 in Japan, a current leader in producing centenarians, it was 84, almost four decades longer.
James Tay Nottage, June 10, 1947 – April 7, 2016.
It is with deep regret and sadness to say that James Tay Nottage passed away peacefully in Eugene, Oregon of cancer. Jim was a Fifth Generation Kama’aina. Jim was born in North Kona and grew up in Kaneohe.
He graduated from Punahou High School in 1965. Jim was a Captain in the Hawaii Air National Guard, flying with the 199th Fighter Squadron.
For many years Jim was an insurance agent for First Insurance Company of Hawaii. Jim served a term as President of the Kona-Kohala Chamber of Commerce. He later started his own agency, Insurance Resources, Inc., in Kona.
After retiring from insurance Jim moved to Oregon where he started Nottage Cottage Construction. He was an avid fisherman, surfer, hunter and all round sportsman. He was a pilot and award winning woodworker. Later in life he became a keen horseman both in the saddle and driving road horses winning many championships across the mainland.
Jim is survived by his wife Sally Gray-Nottage, daughter Dr. Sage Saxton, son Jacob Nottage, 4 grandchildren. He is also survived by his siblings David G. Nottage Jr., Lolly Davis, Sam Nottage. With regret, sister “Muffy” Miller recently just passed after Jim. A later service is planned at Oahu with date to be announced.
In lieu of flowers please consider a donation to the Kona Historical Society-Captain Cook, Hawaii.
Lawmakers in the Senate are slamming the brakes on any future plans to develop new camouflage and utility uniforms.
Buried inside the recently-passed Senate version of the National Defense Authorization Act for 2017 is a provision that would prevent the Defense Department from developing or fielding any new camouflage utilities until one year after the secretary of defense formally notifies the House and Senate Armed Services committees of the intent to do so.
A new report on the commissary system issued by the Defense Department this month is so packed with juicy tidbits of commissary factoid goodness, that I cannot even handle it.
One of the things tucked in there is a discussion on what it would look like if, instead of keeping commissaries open, they paid military members extra to offset the higher cost of groceries off base.
In short, what would happen if they closed the commissaries and gave you extra cash instead?
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From the Images of Old Hawaii website
“The first Boston ice brought to these islands” arrived September 4, 1850, by way of San Francisco aboard the brig Fortunio. On June 22, 1852, “a few tons of ice were brought to this port from San Francisco by the bark Harriet T. Bartlet” and were partly sold at auction; this was hailed as “the first importation of the kind, in any quantity, to this market.” (Schmitt)
The first full cargo of ice came from Sitka aboard the brig Noble in the latter part of 1853. Locally manufactured ice was put on sale December 2, 1871, but the firm providing it went out of business a month later. Local production of ice was eventually resumed in 1875. (Schmitt)
The B-2 Spirit bomber was not the first flying wing aircraft. Shortly after the end of World War II, the Army Air Force tested the first flying wing design.
Northrop Corporation experimental test pilot Max R. Stanley and flight engineer Dale Schroeder made the first flight of the Northrop XB-35 “Flying Wing”, serial number 42-13603, from the factory’s airfield at Hawthorne, California, to Muroc Army Air Field (now, Edwards Air Force Base). The initial flight lasted 55 minutes.
