puna community medical Center foundation
Our Board of Directors is 100% volunteer. The PCMCF is a 501c3tax exempt non-profit organization.
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mail: PCMC Foundation at P.O. Box 1082, Pahoa, HI 96778
email: [email protected]
mail: PCMC Foundation at P.O. Box 1082, Pahoa, HI 96778
Steve sparks
PCMCF PRESIDENT
Steve is retired from a 30 year career as President of a Construction Company. He moved to Hawaii Island in 1995 and has lived in Puna since 2000. Steve has been active in the Community and on the Puna Community Medical Center Board since 2008. Puna needs better medical services and we are trying to provide those.
Thank you for letting me be of service. HART MILLER MD
FAMILY MEDICINE PHYSICIAN
Hart Miller is a physician practicing medicine in Pahoa Hawaii since 2007. His current practice is in Urgent Care. He has had much experience and training in treating and working with patients who have suffered from Rat Lungworm Disease. He has interests in tropical medicine, wilderness medicine, the health benefits of working with plants, and in medical aid for the dying. He holds private consultations for individuals and family members who are searching for more thoroughness and individual care than medical insurance will allow.
He has traveled the globe, often to pursue surfing, time in the forest, and fitness of body, emotion and community. With roots in the Carolinas, he graduated from Clemson University and the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston. He spends any available time with loved ones, and improving the health the land. Living in lower Puna, he belongs to a piece of land managed by organic standards using permaculture and other regenerative and sustainable agricultural methods. ruth love RN, BSN
I started my career in 1985 as an Emergency Medical Technician in North Carolina. Riding the ambulance was exciting and part of the process of becoming an EMT required clinical hours in the Emergency Department. That's where I found a love of Emergency Care.
After nursing school, I went directly to the 16 bed Emergency Department at a local 200 bed hospital, Halifax Memorial Hospital. The hospital believed in "patient's first". Myself, I believed in treating patients and their families as I would want to be treated. The hospital was beside I-95, a major high speed highway and we treated many motor vehicle collision patients. Additionally, with a rural farming area we treated farming accidents, snake bites and gun shot wounds. Our ER grew to 32 beds and we saw approximately 43,000 patients a year. In addition to treating patients, I worked as charge nurse, trained new ER nurses, taught triage, wrote policy and created protocols for care of patients. During that time I taught CPR and ACLS as well. I was a strong advocate to start the new TPA medication to help minimize or eliminate stroke symptoms. In 2011, I transitioned to a Level 1 trauma center in Raleigh NC-WakeMed. While there, I additionally took classes in Decontamination, Radiation, Blast Injuries, and Biological Weapons. I continued precepting new nurses, teaching triage, stroke care and defibrillator/pacemaker use. In 2018, I moved to the Big Island after my husband passed, so I could be here with extended family. I worked briefly at Honoka'a Emergency Department before health concerns forced my retirement. I hope to assist PCMC in what ways I am able, so availability of excellent care is much easier for our Residents of Puna to obtain. I'd like to share my 35 years of Emergency Care knowledge to improve Healthcare for our people in Puna. |
Andrea Rosanoff
PCmcf treasurerAndrea Rosanoff is Independent Scholar and Director of the CMER Center for Magnesium Education & Research, a non-profit organization, in Pahoa, Hawaii, USA. Dr. Rosanoff earned a Ph.D. degree in Nutrition from the University of California at Berkeley in 1982, and soon after began her study of nutritional magnesium as it relates to health in the developed and developing world. She continues this work in Pahoa, HI. Her work as K-12 Science Teacher plus Sr. Chemical Specialist for Dialog Information Services and Information Analyst at Chevron Res & Tech. Corp. gave her early training of and access to the online scientific literature which she uses in her teaching about and research into all aspects of nutritional magnesium.
Andrea has lived in Pahoa since 2000 with her husband, Steve Sparks. Her main research interests include development of the nutritional magnesium paradigm of cardiovascular disease, the role of magnesium nutrition in hypertension, and global nutritional magnesium status. Her interest in health makes her an enthusiast for the Puna Community Medical Campus. Ariel Murphy
REAL ESTATE SPECIALIST
Ariel Murphy has been a resident of the Puna district, Hawaii County since 1999. She has two children and one grandchild. Ariel lives in Orchidland Estates in Pahoa, HI
Education • Post-graduate Certificate in Management, Free University of Brussels, Belgium • Master of Arts in Management, major in Public Administration minor in Business Management, Philippine Christian University • Bachelor of Arts in Mass Communication, University of the Philippines Work Experience • Real Estate Broker, Pineapple Homes LLC • Real Estate Broker, Savio Realty Ltd. • Director IV, Training and Information Service, Department of Budget and Management, Republic of the Philippines • Division Chief, Fiscal Planning Service, Department of Budget and Management • Training Officer, Farm Systems Development Corporation, Republic of the Philippines • Project Assistant, Rural Development Department, Development Academy of the Philippines Community Service • Board member, Puna Community Medical Center Foundation (PCMCF) • Founding member and VP, Kanaka Party • Member, HULI-PAC • Member, Pahoa Mainstreet Association • Member, Big Island Eagles Aerie# 3642 Kumu dane silva
Traditionally trained and internationally recognized for combining native Hawaiian medicine with scientific research, Dane Kaohelani Silva, 76, passed away at his home in Puna on November 27, 2022. He will be sorely missed by the community, and we will honor Dane's legacy by continuing his work at the Kipuka Garden. Read his full obituary at: https://www.dodomortuary.com/obituary/dane-silva
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David Bruce Leonard, MS, L.Ac.
PCMCF Secretary
Earth Medicine Academy
David is the founder of the Earth Medicine Institute and practitioner and teacher of all five branches of traditional Chinese medicine: Acupuncture, Herbal medicine, Massage, Food medicine, Martial arts. David has studied traditional medicines with healers in Asia, North and South America, and Hawai’i. With a Master’s Degree in traditional Chinese medicine, he has a working knowledge of more than 400 traditional Hawaiian, Chinese, and Western plants. A deep ecologist and Hawaiian plant specialist, he has been a student of Hawaiian medicine under Kahu Kawika Ka’alakea, Kaipo Kaneakua and Na Kupuna ‘O Hawai’i since 1992. Author of “Medicine at Your Feet: Healing Plants of the Hawaiian Kingdom” & “Wild Wisdom: Listening to Heart of Nature”, David is an expert on the medicinal plants of the tropics. He studies, lectures and teaches on cross-cultural uses of plant medicines, environmental concerns, traditional plant gathering practices, and pragmatic approaches to health care. He is a certified Wilderness First Responder. He travels the world making plant medicine videos and in recent years has focused his attention on Traditional and Western austere medicine skills and wild edibles. He is known for his off-beat sense of humor. He is often seen in Hawaiian rain forests wearing his favorite trash bag as a raincoat ralph boyer
Ralph Boyea retired from his position as Hawai’i Division Chief of the Hawai’i Government Employee’s Association [HGEA] in December 2007. In 2008 Mr. Boyea served as the Legislative Advocate at the State of Hawai’i Legislature for the Hawai’i County Council. From 2013 to 2015 he represented the State of Hawaii on the IRS Taxpayer’s Advocacy Board. He previously held offices, including President, on his Community Association and the Puna Community Medical center boards. Boyea has a BA in Bacteriology and Chemistry from UC Berkeley and an advance degree certificate in Medical Microbiology from UC San Francisco. He moved to Hawaii in 1974 and resided in Puna since 1976.
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