2005-04-01 TWORLDHEALING - Laserfiche WebLink

Home

IWASHITA:So the license entities youre talking about are Tripler, or Kapiolani, or some of those that you mentioned earlier? LINTON:Yes, those would be the ones that, of course, are appropriately licensed and governed to provide the surgical services and things like that. If during the convalescent period a child might, lets say, get a cold, or run a fever, or something like that, we have relationships with local pediatricians, and there are clinics to take care of the children. And so we would basically take them to a licensed provider to provide a licensed type of service. The services we provide are not licensed services, mostly recovery, or convalescent is a good term for that. ALAMEDA:Madam Chair? SPRINGER:Commissioner Alameda. ALAMEDA:In follow-up to that as well, licensed people can come on the property and providetheirservices,correct? LINTON:Yes.Anexampleofthatwouldbeifwefeltachilddidnotnecessarily need to be transported or required some care, lets say, over, lets say three visits a week, we would then work with a local licensed home care provider agency to provide that in the actual home. But we would not be providing those services ourselves. ALAMEDA:On the property? LINTON:It could be on the property through -. In this case, the location would probably be the home health agency thats based on North Hawaii Community Hospital. ALAMEDA:Okay, got you. SPRINGER:Commissioners, any further questions? I have a question. Mr. Linton, the patients who come to convalesce with you, are they coming from the State of Hawaii, from the Island of Hawaii, or from some place abroad from here? LINTON:Well, its interesting, another one of our strategic partnerships is an international, a very established medical missionary organization called Operation Smile, which helps to do cleft palate and cleft lip, restorative procedures, through missions that they do in the home countries. In some cases they run into cases, however, that cannot be done safely and they are more intense, and so those cases need to be done in a different kind of facility. And so far we have, thats where Tripler comes into play, because they have the level of service that is able to take care of those more intense type of operative procedures. In this case, its called an encephalo (phonetic) seal removal procedure and they get tremendous professional training out of it; and their staff volunteers a lot of their time but in return theyre getting a lot of exposure to cases you dont normally see. In this case, the two groups that weve had so far have been children from the Philippines; but were very interested in, because we can only do two or three of those kinds of groups a year, we have some additional time, and so were developing relationships with local providers so we can do more with local children as well. 6