Kokua Kalihi Valley CFS

Overview

Kōkua Kalihi Valley Comprehensive Family Services (KKV) began in 1972 as a multi-denominational community effort to address the unmet health needs of Kalihi Valley’s residents, a population of more than 25,000.  Kalihi is often the first home for new immigrants and contains O‘ahu’s two largest public housing projects.  The Community Health Center maintains satellite clinics providing outreach and youth services in public housing projects at Kūhiō Park Terrace, Kalihi Valley Homes, and Hauiki Hale, and has plans for expansion at the old P&P supermarket directly across from its main clinic.

Services

KKV provides a wide range of services including dental, medical, family planning, perinatal, mental health, youth recreation, outreach and social services, health education, STD and HIV screenings, and transportation.  Translation services are available in 16 Asian and Pacific Island languages.  KKV provides nutrition counseling through the WIC program and participates in professional education and training programs with the University of Hawai‘i Schools of Medicine, Nursing, and Social Work.  KKV organized the first Dental Residency program in Hawai‘i through a partnership with Lutheran Medical Center and was chosen as one of 25 awardees nationwide to receive a 5-year Robert Wood Johnson Foundation – Active Living by Design Grant.

Special Populations/Health Issues

Immigrants (including migrants from the Freely Associated States).  KKV treats the health conditions often seen in a new immigrant population: critical lack of dental care, poor nutrition, hypertension, exposure to hepatitis B, heart disease, and asthma.  There are high rates of teenage pregnancy, drug and alcohol abuse, domestic violence and other mental health conditions, and inadequately immunized children.

Patient Profile for 2006

• Ethnic groups served (top 3):  Pacific Islander (48%), Asian (40%), Native Hawaiian (8%).
• Unduplicated Patients: 7,813
• Patient Visits: 46,979
  • 19 years of age and under: 51%
  • 65 years of age or older: 8%
• Female: 61%
• Uninsured: 26%
• Medicaid: 52%
• Medicare: 4%
• Patients best served in a language other than English: 51%
• Patients with an income less than 200% of Federal Poverty Level (FPL): 97%

Staffing

On KKV’s professional staff are physicians specializing in: pediatrics, obstetrics/ gynecology and family practice; medical assistants, nurse practitioners, nurses, an immunization coordinator, dentists and dental hygienists, social and outreach workers, nutritionists, case managers, psychiatrists, counselors, social workers and STD health educators. 

Federal Funding

Kōkua Kalihi Valley is a grantee or subcontractor for:

• 330(e) Community Health Center and 330(i) Public Housing Primary Care Grantee
• Family Planning
• WIC 
• Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening Program 
• Adult Mental Health Outreach and Services
• Other primary care 
• AHEC/Professional Health Education 
• HCFA Demonstration Grant

Federal Designations

• MUP
• Dental HPSA
• Mental Health HPSA
• Community Center of Excellence (CCOE) in Women’s Health