Yet another year marks another successful COPD Education Day event at the Queen’s Medical Center in downtown Honolulu. Hawaii COPD Coalition organizes this event annually and provides a free event to the public with information, education, booths, and speakers – all in the effort of advocacy and helping those with COPD. Check out the Event Photos … Read more
Registration coming soon for our biggest event of the year! It will be the 8th Annual COPD Education Day on Saturday, September 13, 2014, from 9am-2pm at Queen’s Conference Center, 1301 Punchbowl Street. It is free and open to the public, especially people with emphysema, chronic bronchitis, or chronic asthma, their caregivers and healthcare providers.In 2014, our … Read more
Come and join us at our monthly support group meetings facilitated by an experienced respiratory therapist and lung health educator, with frequent guest speakers on a variety of health topics. Supplies and light refreshments are provided; meetings are free and open to the public. Kaiser Honolulu Meetings Kaiser Honolulu, 1010 Pensacola from 10am-noon every 2nd Friday, 2014-2015. $3 … Read more
Join the conversation on Monday, August 18, 2014 from 5-6pm on HIPO, FM89.3 or 89.7. Hostess is internist, Dr. Kathleen Kozak of Straub with guest speakers Valerie Chang, Executive Director of Hawaii COPD Coalition, addressing the upcoming COPD Education Day as well as physical therapists from Central Oahu Physical Therapy Specialists, Bobby Togawa and Bernie Soriano. Call in your questions about COPD and exercise … Read more
Hawaii COPD Coalition is again a partner with the Foodland Give Aloha Program. For September, if you give your Makai number when you make a contribution to the program and give Hawaii COPD Coalition’s number, 78740, the program will match a portion of your donation! Click this link for more information. Give Aloha Flyer–Hawaii_COPD_Coalition
Open a Printable Newsletter with this link: copd-newsletter-march-2014 COPD Support Groups for 2014 Check out the support groups for 2014! Please note: There will be NO COPD Support Group at Queen’s in May or June of 2014; please RSVP for future Queen’s meetings. Lots of information at our website, www.hawaiicopd.org. As always, meetings are free and open … Read more
Here’s the latest graph, showing US federal funding by different diseases and yearly death rates. The blue bars show death rates, the red bars show corresponding funding for these health conditions. Please share this information with policymakers so more funding and resources can be used for COPD and lung conditions.
The Hawaii COPD Coalition will be continuing to have numerous support group meetings throughout 2014. If this may interest you, please come – the events are FREE and open to the public. Come enjoy the food, fellowship and information about thriving with emphysema, chronic bronchitis or chronic asthma, also known as Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease … Read more
Be sure to mark your calendars for the Ninth Annual Hawaii COPD Education Day. The event will be held at the Queens’s Conference Center on Saturday, September 12, 2015, 9AM-2PM.
