LIHU‘E — The Harry & Jeanette Weinberg Foundation has gifted the Kaua‘i Community Health Alliance with a $10,000 grant, a press release states. The grant honors KCHA’s outstanding contributions as a nonprofit family practice medical clinic, the release states. James
LIHU‘E — The Harry & Jeanette Weinberg Foundation has gifted the Kaua‘i Community Health Alliance with a $10,000 grant, a press release states.
The grant honors KCHA’s outstanding contributions as a nonprofit family practice medical clinic, the release states.
James Winkler, KCHA president, along with board member Harvey L. Cohen and patient Suzanne Staulz, accepted the grant in Waikiki recently.
KCHA operates the Hale Lea Medicine clinic in Kilauea, which has been providing family-practice and integrative health care on the North Shore of Kaua‘i for over 15 years, and emphasizes “integrative medicine,” a practice that combines the best of Western medicine with alternative- and complementary-healing methods.
The clinic handles over 10,000 office visits per year.
“KCHA is dedicated to transforming community health care by returning the soul to medicine,” said Winkler.
“Integrative medicine puts the patient, not the doctor or the insurance company, at the center of attention. It focuses on the sources of illness, not just the symptoms,” he said.
“As it becomes more likely that recent health care reforms will not result in any drastic changes in the survival of community clinics such as ours, an integrative health care approach offers effective solutions for much of what ails both patients and the delivery of health care in our society,” he said.
In addition to Winkler, clinic providers include medical director Dr. Steve Rogoff, Dr. Larry Raithaus, Dr. Jilliene Winchell, Family Nurse Practitioner Mary Cameron, and Physical Therapist Todd Strong.
Gailene Wong, the Hawai‘i program director for the Weinberg Foundation, said, “The recipients of these grants continue to make a significant difference for the neediest people in our communities. In light of the challenges presented by the local economy, the Weinberg Foundation is proud to support these organizations to improve the overall well-being of local Hawai‘i residents.”
See www.kauai-medical.org for more information on what KCHA is doing for health care on Kaua‘i.
