Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 26, Number 3, 1 April 2009 — Asam named Lunalilo Home interim director [ARTICLE]

Asam named Lunalilo Home interim director

Dr. J. Kuhio Asam was named interim executive director of Lunalilo Home, an elder care home in Hawai'i Kai, O'ahu, on March 23. Asam was the medical director of APS Healthcare Hawai'i from 2002 to 2008, and before that medical director of Kahi Mohala. He is a graduate of Kamehameha Schools, Yale University and the John A. Burns School of Medicine at UH Mānoa. He serves as trustee for the University of Hawai'i Foundation and Hanahau'oli School and on the boards of Kahi Mohala, 'Ahahui O Nā Kauka and the Mental Heahh Association.

Lunalilo Home was established in 1883 under ali'i William Charles Lunalilo's will to care for elderly Hawaiians. The home moved to its current site in Hawai'i Kai in 1927.