In this year’s Wahine issue, Hawaii Business Magazine profiled 8 women who save lives.⁠ ⁠ As Clinical Director at the Institute of Human Services, Vinnesha Porter approaches her role with empathy and insight. ❤️‍🩹⁠ ⁠ Having experienced generational homelessness for the first 12 years of her life, Porter says she knows what it’s like to live in abandoned homes, on the beach or with random folks until her parents returned from their “drug trips.” ⁠ ⁠ “Because I knew what it was like to be in the

In this year’s Wahine issue, Hawaii Business Magazine profiled 8 women who save lives. ⁠ ⁠ Dr. Lois Chiu, chief of neonatology at Kaiser Permanente Moanalua Medical Center, cares for the state’s youngest patients. 🍼⁠ ⁠ According to Chiu, most of her patients are “preemies,” sometimes born as early as 22 weeks. The full gestation period is 40 weeks, so babies that premature are “barely halfway cooked when they’re born,” which makes their care needs very different from that of a full-term baby.⁠

In this year’s Wahine issue, Hawaii Business Magazine profiled 8 women who save lives.⁠ ⁠ Since performing the state’s first liver transplant in 1993 at St. Francis Medical Center, Dr. Linda Wong has performed more than 400 liver transplants and now heads Hawai‘i’s only liver transplant program, at The Queen’s Medical Center. 🏥⁠ ⁠ Wong says after taking the donated liver out of ice, “We basically have 45 to 60 minutes to sew it in, or the patient dies. So there’s a lot of tension, a lot of nerv

Legally, you can pay your child for legitimate work in your Hawaii business, like managing social media, helping with vacation rentals, cleaning properties, organizing files, or marketing tasks. ✅ Deduction for you, lowering your taxable income ✅ Tax-free for them under the standard deduction ✅ You can even invest part into a Roth IRA that grows tax-free That’s $31,500 a year for two kids. Over five years, that’s $150,000 shifted from your taxable income to your kids while teaching them real fin

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