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Hawaii Cord Blood Bank honors Castle’s 2019 Campaign Winners
The Hawaii Cord Blood Bank honored Adventist Health Castle’s 2019 winners of their annual Pump Up the Volume – Big and Banked Campaign. The campaign aligns with the organization’s mission of “improving patient access to transplants, including the collection and public banking of umbilical cord blood from Hawaii’s ethnically diverse population” and encourages OB doctors, midwives and nurses to recruit donors and collect umbilical cord blood for the public cord blood bank at all delivering hospitals on Oahu.
The Pump Up the Volume 2019 Big and
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Birth Center staff on hand to receive their award (from left): Marilyn Robello, Camille Pi’ikea Dudoit, Kate Ferreira, Elena McGuire, Kanoe Ornellas, Donna Uehara, Leah Dinatale and Lindsay Chan.
Banked winners honored at Adventist Health Castle were:
1st Place: 197 grams
Kathy Bellomy, CNM (Koolau Women’s Health Care); Analea Geske, RN, and Laura Deming, RN.
2nd Place Tie: 188 grams
Alison Moore, MD (Pali Women’s Health);
has become even more relevant,” said Kathryn Raethel, President of Adventist Health Castle. “Being recognized as Hawaii’s #1 hospital is an honor and one that is evident by the excellent work, we do every day.”
The Lown Institute is a health care organization founded by world-renowned cardiologist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Bernard Lown that honors hospitals for both excellence in serving individual patients and for contributions to advancing equity in their communities. The Institute is the first to include metrics like Inclusivity, Pay Equity, Avoiding Overuse, and Civic Leadership in evaluating hospital performance.
Castle Health Group Manager Brandais Jones and Ryan Tenn APRN, spoke with Tannya Joaquin July 15 on In Sickness & In Health about the importance of wellness visits for Kupuna. Living808 learned what to expect in a wellness visit with the Castle nurse practitioner
Brittany Fuller, RN, and Camille Pi‘ikea Dudoit, RN.
Li-Duen Clark. MD (Windward OB/ GYN); Elena McGuire, RN, and Kate Ferreira, RN.
3rd place (174 grams)
Emma Kate Friedlander, MD (Pali Women’s Health Care), and Laura Deming, RN.
program and about telehealth options.
To schedule an appointment, Kupuna should call Adventist Health Castle at 263-5174 to be connected to a doctor who uses telemedicine or visit
adventisthealth.org/castle.
Adventist Health Castle President Kathy Raethel on July 10 spoke with host Tannya Joaquin for a KHON2 TV In Sickness & In Health segment about what it meant for Castle to be ranked #1 in the state of Hawaii and 25th in the nation on The Lown Institute Hospital Index's list of the nation's top hospitals.
“At a time when our Windward communities are relying on us like never before, our mission of Living God’s love by inspiring health, wholeness and hope
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