Community Resources

Within Kupuna Kokua:

We are providing free face masks to kupuna in Hawaii. Additional masks will be distributed as available.
If you are willing to help us make face masks out of donated fabric and material please let us know!

Links to databases and other sources of information or services:

From Resilient Hawaii
If this is an emergency, please call 9-1-1.
A compilation of resources and information for healthcare providers.

Food Support:

Additional Links and Resources Below:

COVID-19 Resources for Hawaii via resilienthawaii.org.

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Introduction

This is a crowdsourced resource of trusted, curated + editorial links specific to Hawaii concerning the novel coronavirus global pandemic (COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2). To neighbor island folk, we really need your help filling in the gaps; our networks are primarily on Oahu. Here are examples that we are modeling this document after: , , . Let’s do our best to not recreate the wheel. We encourage you to . If you would like to help translate this document into Illocano, Tagalog, Japanese, Chinese, Spanish, Hawaiian, Korean, Samoan, Vietnamese or your language of choice, please email us .

We are doing our best to maintain this page, but like everything else you read on the internet, please check the source to make sure it’s up to date!

Contact

A group of volunteers are working on this project. If you are working on a similar effort, let’s join forces! If you have any questions,comments, information or resources for this document, or would like to help with this effort, please email us at . 

Hawaii COVID-19 Resources in Non-English Languages

Immediate Needs

Symptoms/When should you get screened?

To help manage available healthcare resources for the public statewide, the Hawaii Department of Health (DOH) advises everyone to take the following steps:

  1. Stay home if you are not well or experiencing mild to moderate flu-like symptoms.
  2. To prevent the potential spread of the virus, call ahead to your healthcare provider BEFORE going to a medical facility.
  3. If your doctor would like you to come in for a screening, bring a photo ID and insurance card.
  4. If your doctor decides that you meet the criteria for COVID-19 testing, he or she will provide a lab order for the test and take the swab for testing. If your doctor is unavailable when you call, they should follow CDC protocol and ask questions to help determine a diagnosis and whether you need to go to an urgent-care provider for tests for COVID19, Influenza A, and/or Influenza B.
  5. The specimen will be sent to a private or state lab for the results.
  6. During this time, you are expected to self-quarantine at home until the test results are available, which could be up to 3-4 days, maybe longer.  

Please note that conditions are changing rapidly and screening options may change. Thank you for your kokua and understanding. 

Find Help

  • (posted on March 13 in State of HI, Office of Language Access)
  • (Hawaii State Commission on the Status of Women): A crowdsourced guide focused on women’s needs, community resources for women, and urgent concerns and questions.
  • If you’re concerned about being quarantined in an unsafe home situation, please see domesticshelters.org for more resources. National Domestic Violence Hotline is available 24/7 at (SAFE) or (TTY) or chat with their advocates or text LOVEIS to 22522. List of Local and National Domestic Violence Resources via the State of HI Dept. of Human Services
  • Anti-Violence Project offers a 24-hour English/Spanish hotline for LGBTQ+ experiencing abuse or hate-based violence: call

Contact Tracing

Financial 

Applying for Unemployment 

Applying for Loans

  • Chamber of Commerce Hawaii: Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans
    • Brain Gain Pro Bono PPP Resources Live Updates:
  • Chamber of Commerce Hawaii COVID-19 Response: Information and resources for small businesses

Loan/Mortgage Suspension

Rent

Taxes

  • Federal income tax filings and payments postponed until July 15, 2020 [Source]
  • Hawaii state income tax filings and payments postponed until July 20, 2020 []

Federal Stimulus Package

Sick Leave

Resources Based on Type of Employment

Disability Insurance

Childcare

Senior “Kupuna” Resources

  • Offices on Aging
    • Oahu “EAD” – Elderly Affairs Division – Phone:
    • Kauai Phone:
    • Phone:
    • Phone:
    • Phone:
  • Meals on Wheels Services (Oahu)
    • Arcadia Day Health:
    • Hawaii Meals on Wheels: (requires EAD assessment)
    • Lanakila Meals on Wheels:
    • Palolo Chinese Homes Meals on Wheels:
    • St. Francis – Show Aloha Challenge 
      • March 30 – April 8, 2020
        Free Meals – Home Delivered by Local Businesses and the City & County of of Honolulu
        1) 60 years and older
        2) Must have an underlying health condition
        3) Have limited resources and limited family support for meals
        4) Not receiving any subsidized meals – including meal delivery

Phone: 
Website:

Food & Food Insecurity

Donations

  • Blood Bank of Hawaii – Donate blood at various donation centers: Young Street, Dillingham, Kailua Town Center, Kaneohe Bay Shopping Center, Waikele Center, and KROC Center Hawaii. Please check the site for hours.
  • Rainbow Family 808 – Food donations
  • Hawaii Food Bank

Preparedness

*We encourage you to shop responsibly so that everyone in our communities (from your parents to your aunty’s best friend’s niece) have access to the supplies they need.

  • Prepare a Family Emergency Kit:
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Veterans

Behavioral Health and Homelessness

Telehealth

*Do NOT use telehealth if you’re having a health emergency. Call 9-1-1 or go to an emergency room.

During the outbreak, it may be easier to talk with a doctor online. Here’s a list of telehealth services in Hawaii:

 

Depending on your health insurance, some of these platforms can be used for free. Others may require payment. Please find out if there’s a charge before using a telehealth service. 

Pets

State Level Closures and Orders

State Orders

  • : All persons entering the state  to self-quarantine for 14 days or for their duration of their stay, whichever is shorter

(effective March 26, 2020) (Hawaii News Now, updated March 22) 

  • UPDATE: As of April 1, 2020 at 12:01AM all inter island travel is subject to 14 day quarantine. (Hawaii News Now, updated April 1)

Schools / Department of Education

Events

Local Media Coverage

General Information on COVID-19

Hawaii-Specific

Worldwide

Mental Well-being 

COVID-19 Screening

*If anyone knows of a government organization keeping track of the screening sites, could you please leave a suggestion here. Ideally, we would like to move the chart below out of this document (or into its own document). 

Locations as of 3/16/2020

Statewide Map

Hawaiʻi COVID-19 Resources – Screening Sites Statewide – Click “Screening Sites”

Commercial Services

WePrescribe: Virtual medical consultations and prescriptions with a Hawai’i board-certified doctor, including COVID-19 screening and testing. $49.99 per consultation.

Oahu

Call ahead for Walk-In Screening
Facility Address Phone Hours Days
Adventist Health Castle 24 hours Every day
Island Urgent Care 8 am – 8 pm Everyday
Island Urgent Care 8 am – 8 pm Everyday
Kahuku Medical Center 24 Hours Everyday
Kaiser Permanente Moanalua Medical Center 24 Hours Everyday
Kalihi-Palama Health Center 8 am – 4:30 pm Mon – Sat
Kalihi-Palama Health Center 8 am – 5 pm Mon – Fri
Kapiolani Medical Center for Women & Children 24 Hours Everyday
Kuakini Medical Center 24 Hours Everyday
Pali Momi Medical Center 24 Hours Everyday
Straub Medical Center 24 Hours Everyday
The Queens Medical Center 24 Hours Everyday
The Queens Medical Center – West Oahu 24 Hours Everyday
The Queens Health Care Center 8 am – 5 pm Mon – Fri
The Queens Health Care Center 8 am – 5 pm Mon – Fri
Tripler Army Medical Center (Military only) 24 Hours Every day
Wahiawa General Hospital 24 Hours Every day
Windward Urgent Care 8 am – 9 pm Every day
Call ahead for Drive-Thru/Drive-Up Screening
Adventist Health Castle [] Physical order required and a Castle Associate will contact you. M-F: 8:30 am-12 pm;
Saturday 10 am – 2pm		 Mon – Fri, Saturday
The Queens Medical Center – West Oahu 5 pm – 9 pm Mon – Fri
Kapiolani Medical Center for Women & Children 8 am – 5 pm Mon – Fri
Pali Momi Medical Center 8 am – 5 pm Mon – Fri
Straub Medical Center 8 am – 5 pm Mon – Fri
Windward Urgent Care (Drive-up access with MD referral) 8 am – 9 pm Mon – Sun
Waianae Coast Comprehensive Health Center 86-260 Farrington Hwy. Waianae Call COVID Hotline for Covid Testing 2 pm – 6 pm Mon – Fri
Walk-in Screening
The Queen’s Medical Center 8 am – 8 pm Mon – Fri

Kauai

Call ahead for Walk-In Screening
Facility Address Phone # Hours Days
Kauai Veterans Memorial Hospital 24 Hours Every day
Samuel Mahelona Memorial Hospital 24 Hours Every day
Wilcox Memorial Hospital 24 Hours Every day
Call ahead for Drive-Thru/Drive-Up Screening
Wilcox Memorial Hospital 11 am – 3 pm Mon – Fri

Maui

Call ahead for Walk-In Screening
Facility Address Phone # Hours Days
Kula Hospital 24 Hours Every day
Lanai Community Hospital (Pending) 8 am – 5 pm Mon – Fri
Maui Memorial Medical Center 24 Hours Every day
Maui Memorial Medical Center (Pending) 8 am – 5 pm Mon – Fri
Molokai General Hospital 24 Hours Every day
Call ahead for Drive-Thru/Drive-Up Screening
Molokai Community Clinic 8 am – 5 pm Mon – Fri

Big Island

Call ahead for Walk-In Screening
Facility Address Phone # Hours Days
Hilo Medical Center 24 Hours Every day
Kona Community Hospital North 24 Hours Every day
Queen’s North Hawaii Community Hospital 10 am – 2 pm Mon – Sat.
Call ahead for Drive-Thru/Drive-Up Screening
Hilo Medical Center (Pending) 10 am – 2 pm Mon – Fri

Stay at Home Resources (Self isolation)

Exercise and Workout

Learning & Self Improvement

Keiki at Home

Activities with Young Children

Remote Working/Learning from Home

Working From Home

For Employees

For Employers

Studying from Home

Free Internet/Wifi/Data for Students

  • 60-day access for households with K-12 and/or college students who do not already have Spectrum broadband. Call: .

Distance Learning Resources for Students, Teachers and Parents

Get Involved / How can I help?

Volunteering

Medical

Housing

  • Airbnb Open Homes for COVID-19: Airbnb is partnering with its hosts to connect 100,000 healthcare providers, relief workers, and first responders with clean, convenient places to stay.
  •  
  • Institute for Human Services – shelter for the houseless
  • Honolulu Tenants Union

Virtual Challenges

Island Specific

Big Island

  • – includes testing sites

Food & Food Insecurity

Childcare

  • has extended Day Camp, 630am-5:30pm. Two one-week sessions last two weeks in March, $125 each. Call

Maui / Lanaʻi / Molokaʻi

Shelter-in-Place Emergency Order ()

  • From March 25 to April 30
  • Mayor Victorino ordered residents to stay at home unless working at an essential business or getting essential supplies
    • Residents allowed to leave homes to get groceries, work at essential businesses, get medical supplies or treatment for themselves, family members or pets 
    • Solo exercise is allowed (e.g. walking, hiking running)
    • Allowed to leave to provide care for family member or pet in another household 
    • See pages 2 and 3 in to get list of essential business

Food & Food Insecurity

Other Information

Oahu

(/)

  • Mayor Caldwell ordered residents to stay at home unless working at an essential business or getting essential supplies
    • Residents allowed to leave homes to get groceries, work at essential businesses, get medical supplies or treatment for themselves, family members or pets 
    • Solo exercise is allowed (e.g. walking, hiking running)
    • Allowed to leave to provide care for family member or pet in another household 
    • See page 4 and later in to get list of essential business 
    • Hawaii News Now list of essential activities, services, and workers

Food & Food Insecurity

Public Transportation

Regional Information

Kauaʻi

Food and Food Insecurity

Medical

  • Department of Human Services Med-QUEST: Assistance in paying for health insurance, call [apply online]

Workforce

Public Transportation

  • The Kaua‘i Bus: The Kaua‘i Bus has the same bus service on weekdays and weekends.  See website for route times.

Volunteering

Other Information and Resources

Fact-checking and Stopping misinformation

Arts & Culture

Misc / Unsorted

Questions from the community

  • I think I or my family member has contracted COVID-19, but I don’t have health insurance, what should we do?

  • Hospitals in Hawaii do not turn away emergency cases, regardless of insurance coverage.
 However, anyone who has lost their health insurance due to job loss or other circumstances is encouraged to contact federal and Hawaii state resources to obtain free or subsidized health insurance:
    • The federal government’s healthcare marketplace at healthcare.gov. or 1-. TTY users call
    • The state of Hawaii’s Med-Quest program at mybenefits.hawaii.gov/applying-for-benefits or 
    •  1-. TTY users call []
  • From Todd B concerning safety for home health care workers: Question: I change scrubs between each client site. Every night I wash my scrubs. What is the best way to decontaminate them?

Acknowledgements

This document is a curated, crowd-sourced effort by people all over the world to help Hawaii residents become better informed about local and global resources pertaining to Covid-19. Mahalo to .

License

This document and its contents are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.

Hawaii Department of Health Information: https://hawaiicovid19.com/

Stay-At-Home, Work-From-Home: www.oneoahu.org/ or call the Hotline: 

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)  or Apple App Checker

The Queen’s Health Systems COVID-19 Hotline:  www.queens.org/covid19/

Hawaii Pacific Health Info Page: www.hawaiipacifichealth.org/coronavirus

Food-A-Go-Go: Find restaurants offering Take-Out, Delivery or Curbside Pick-up: https://foodagogo.org/

Malama Kaua‘i – Local food resources on Kaua‘i : http://www.malamakauai.org/

Alzheimer’s Association – Aloha Chapter: Tips for Dementia Caregivers https://alz.org/hawaii

Kupuna Needs Project – Delivering necessities to high-risk individuals: www.kupunaneedsproject.com

Touch a Heart – 5-meal dinner pack pickup service: www.touchahearthawaii.org

City and County of Honolulu Customer Services – Drivers Licensing and State ID updates: www.honolulu.gov/csd

Hawaii Department of Human Services, including statewide SNAP (Food Stamps), Med-QUEST (Medical Assistance) and Child Welfare and Adult Protective Services: https://humanservices.hawaii.gov/

AARP Community Connections for helping Hawaii’s kupuna with social isolation: https://aarpcommunityconnections.org/

Kama`aina Kids – Limited special programs for children of essential employees: 

YMCA of Honolulu – Essential workers child care program: 

Show Aloha Challenge – St. Francis Healthcare System free kupuna meal delivery