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A Cup of Cold Water is partnering with Good Shepherd Episcopal Church's Ka Ohana Kitchen to provide lunch takeout meals from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. Sundays until further notice.
The meals can be picked up at the back door of Good Shepherd Church Parish Hall. Personal hygiene and basic first aid supplies by A Cup of Cold Water also will be offered.
Ka Ohana Kitchen and their partners have been serving hot meals every Sunday for the past 20 years from the church Parish Hall. A Cup of Cold Water is a 7-year-old street ministry of the Episcopal Churches of Maui that partners with Wailuku and Kahului Hongwanji, along with Catholic, Protestant, Quaker and other nondenominational Christian churches, offering water, food, clothing and comfort along with referral help to Maui's chronic homeless population.
A Cup of Cold Water has temporarily suspended its normal weekly mission runs to West, South and Central Maui and is currently looking at other avenues of service and support to the poor. Normal outreach runs will resume at the appropriate time.
Ka Ohana Kitchen ministry serves a hot meal to an average of 250 people each month. A Cup of Cold Water conducts service contacts with 700 to 900 homeless people every month.
Good Shepherd Church, located at 2140 Main St., is the hub church of A Cup Of Cold Water.
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ATM fees waived at banks
First Hawaiian Bank is waiving ATM fees through June 30, the bank announced Wednesday.
Non-First Hawaiian customers can withdraw cash from any of the bank's network of 270 ATMs throughout Hawaii, without being charged a convenience fee.
First Hawaiian Bank customers can use other Hawaii bank's ATMs without fees, including American Savings Bank, Bank of Hawaii, Central Pacific Bank and Hawaii National Bank.
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Kaiser lists policy for PPE acceptance
Organizations and individuals interested in donating personal protective equipment and other supplies to Kaiser Permanente facilities should email a list of items they would like to offer to KPCOVID-19Donations@kp.org.
Kaiser will contact the donor with further instructions, including how and where to send the items, the health care organization said in a news release Wednesday.
Items acceptable for donation include medical swabs for collecting screening samples, medical-grade and industrial-grade N95 masks, other masks (surgical, isolation and all others), gowns (surgical and isolation), face shields, goggles, gloves, antiseptic wipes and hand sanitizer.
All donations must be new, unopened and in their original packaging.
Nonclinical homemade masks are welcomed, Kaiser said. While the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention does not consider homemade masks to be effective PPE inside clinical environments or for those caring directly for COVID-19 patients, staff members in nonclinical areas may use their own masks. Using homemade masks in nonpatient care areas will preserve mask inventory.
Kaiser Permanente has developed step-by-step instructions for making masks, which can be found at habout.kaiserpermanente.org/content/dam/internet/kp/comms/import/uploads/2020/03/02_COVID_Mask-Instructions_v9.pdf. An instructional video can be found at www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aMCFnK5bHk&feature=youtu.be.
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Urgent care clinic offers virtual visits
Doctors On Call is offering telemedicine appointments to patients by phone or video from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. seven days a week, the Maui urgent care clinic announced.
Physicians can offer advice, diagnose, treat and call in prescriptions. An estimated 80 to 90 percent of medical care can be done online, from the comfort of a home, office or any smartphone, the clinic said.
"This is a great chance for us to take care of patients quickly and efficiently without their having to come out of their home and into a doctors office or clinic waiting room," said Dr. Norman Estin, co-founder and medical director of Doctors On Call.
Specific and easy-to-follow instructions for any patient regardless of their insurance plan can be found at DocMaui.com. All local insurances cover the telemedicine video-visits, and the self-pay cost is only $49.