Welcome to our website! I invite you to learn about us and our mission and consider joining us on our journey with the special families we hope to serve.

Many of us are blessed with the gift of children who are healthy and become more independent of us as they grow up. They take on some of the responsibilities of their daily care and we plan our lives according to their developmental stages. There are now many families who have children whom we describe as “medically fragile” because they depend on the assistance of a parent or skilled nursing care everyday of their lives. Their ability to become independent is limited by a chronic medical condition.

Our mission at O’Hana Heritage Foundation is to help families with medically fragile children by providing a home where nurses and volunteers share in the care of the children, while parents take short breaks for much-needed rest or the re-kindling of relationships with their spouses and other children. We hope to tell the stories of these busy, special people. We wish to be their extended family.

My work as a pediatric intensive care physician has given me the joy of caring for many families during times of critical illness or injury, the reward of witnessing miraculous recoveries, but also the heart-break of knowing how families disintegrate under the pressures on constant care-giving.

Contact us and tell us about the special families in your community. Join us in improving the quality of life for these exceptional families. May you be the answer to another person’s prayer.