Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 29, Number 6, 1 June 2012 — Page 2 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Everything that has life has Aloha. Kauila Clark

Kauila Clark brings the teaching of a Hawaiian kahuna to the world of modern medicine, and believes the Aloha spirit and island culture ean be the model for sustainable, successful, community-based heakh care around the world. Kauila's message is being heard at the highest levels, as Chairman of the Naīional Association of Community Heakh Centers in Washington, DC. He has also been recognized by Hawaii's legislature for his leadership in traditional healing and service as a longtime board member of the Waianae Coast Comprehensive Heakh Center. "In community heakh, patients are setting the policies, standards of care, cultural competencies, and the way care and services are delivered. Today's modern medicine controls doctors and patients with technology and rewards high volumes of service. In the community, we ean change volume to value. Value is established in care and quality, while bringing down costs." "A presence whieh can't be seen, touched or heard but is expressed from the center of one's being to all of creation."

Kauila's involvement with AlohaCare began with its formation by Hawaii's Community Health Centers in 1994. He served on AlohaCare's Board ofDirectors and sees AlohaCare as the model ofhow a non-profit, communitybased health plan ean help financially sustain the elinie network while exemplifying and perpetuating Hawaiian values in health care.