Month: November 2015
Alzheimer’s Assoc Presentations Set in Hilo, Kona and Waimea
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In Kona at the Regency, 75-181 Hualalai Rd., Kailua-Kona
Friday, January 8, 2016
6:00 PM—8:00 PM
What Is Dementia; Stages, Symptoms, Treatments
Saturday, January 9, 2016
9:00 AM—11:00 AM
Legal Affairs in Dementia
11:00 AM—1:00 PM
Still Alice (Movie)
1:00 PM—3:00 PM
Communication and Behaviors in Dementia; causes of behaviors with possible interventions
Supported in part by the Remembering Doc Buyers Fund
Limited seating. Register with Chris Ridley, 443-7360
In Waimea at Tutu’s House,
64-1032 Mamalahoa Hwy, Waimea
Saturday, January 23, 2016
9:00 AM —11:00 AM
What Is Dementia; Stages, Symptoms, Treatments
11:00 AM —1:00 PM
Still Alice (Movie)
1:00 PM —3:00 PM
Communication and Behaviors in Dementia; causes of behaviors with possible interventions
Supported in part by the Remembering Doc Buyers Fund
Limited seating Register with Chris Ridley, 443-7360
Action for Health Justice announces Health Insurance Enrollment Glossary
With the third Open Enrollment Period underway, AHJ partners across the country are working to provide assistance to those who need help navigating the health insurance enrollment process, including Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders (AAs and NHPIs)—a community where one in three have difficulty speaking, writing, or reading English.
In order to increase the effectiveness of in-person, in-language health care enrollment assistance, AHJ worked with certified outreach and enrollment assistors, and other community partners to develop its Glossary. Last year, AHJ released its Glossary in Chinese (Traditional), Korean and Vietnamese. It was the first step in an effort to respond to a lack of reference tools for those working to get health care coverage for this community.
The AHJ Glossary contains approximately 100 of the most frequently used (and often confused) terms encountered by in-person assisters and navigators. Many AHJ partners including navigators, Certified Application Counselors (CACs), Community Based Oragnizations (CBOs), and Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) identified common terms in the Glossary and took part in its translation and review process.
With the success of its Glossary, AHJ is pleased to make it available in the following languages: Laotian, Marshallese, Tagalog and Tongan—and will release additional languages in the coming weeks. It is AHJ’s hope that its Glossary will be a helpful tool in ensuring more AA and NHPI communities understand the Marketplace and get covered this Open Enrollment Period.
Request your free copy of AHJ’s Glossary here.
AHJ is the only national coalition working to reach and enroll AAs and NHPIs through one-on-one in-person assistance in more than 50 Asian and Pacific Islander languages. The Glossary is a resource to help assisters provide accurate translations and help more people get covered.
We look forward to working with our partners and hope this resource will continue to benefit in-language efforts to reach and enroll AAs and NHPIs in health insurance. If you have any questions regarding the AHJ Glossary, please email ahj-glossary@aapcho.org.
Asian Pacific Community in Action
Asian Pacific Partners for Empowerment, Advocacy and Leadership
Charles B. Wang Community Health Center
Healthy House Merced
Hmong American Partnership
International Community Health Services
JR Language
Kalihi-Palama Health Center
KERN Global Language Services
Kokua Kalihi Valley Comprehensive Family Services
Lowell Community Health Center
Marshallese Educational Initiative, Inc.
National Tongan American Society
Operation Samahan
PALS for Health
South Asian Network
Tyson Foods Inc. Recalls Chicken
Tyson Foods Inc. Recalls Chicken Product Due To Possible Adulteration
USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service sent this bulletin at 11/17/2015 12:36 AM EST
Tyson Foods Inc. Recalls Chicken Product Due To Possible Adulteration
Tyson Foods Inc., a Pine Bluff, Ark. establishment, is recalling approximately 52,486 pounds of chicken wing product that may be adulterated because of having an “off odor” scent.
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Hormel Foods voluntarily recalls some jars of Skippy Reduced Fat Creamy Peanut Butter
10/29/2015 02:05 PM EDTHormel Foods Sales LLC is voluntarily recalling 153 cases, or 1,871 total pounds, of a single code date of SKIPPY Reduced Fat Creamy Peanut Butter Spread, due to the possibility that some jars may contain small pieces of metal shavings which were discovered on an in-line magnet check during routine cleaning. Foodborne objects that are greater than 7mm in length may cause injury such as severe choking with airway obstruction, gastrointestinal peroration or secondary infection.