Community partner organization research and analysis

HK Cares
The author of this report has been asked to describe and detail a community partner that shall be the basis for further research and description. Several important facets and traits of the organization will be mentioned. Those items will include the name of the organization, a brief history of the organization, the mission statement of the organization, the vision statement of the organization, the populations that the organization serves, the public policy areas that the group focuses on, the geographic area that is served by the group and the role that volunteers play when it comes to the organization. While HK Cares is not the largest or best communication organization in Hong Kong, they are certainly a part of what helps the community and makes it feel and live better.
Analysis
As noted in the introduction, the name of the organization is HK Cares. HK is short for Hong Kong, which is the location of the organization in terms of geography. Hong Kong, of course, is an island that is part of the larger country of China. The group was founded by a man named Dr. Patrick Khoo. Dr. Khoo used to be a professor at Hong Kong University. However, he is now solely a professional doctor and he uses his resources and talents to help those that need it. The group serves the elderly in the different hospitals around the Hong Kong area. In the applicable hospitals, the group serves as caregivers for those elderly people in ways that the hospitals are unable to provide, for whatever reason. The author of this report will be on duty with the group a total of five days a week every week. Not only are the people served in the hospitals in Hong Kong, the foundation in question above is located there as well. In other words, the foundation, the service and operation of the foundation is entirely local and domestic in nature. Further, the service area is specifically in the Hong Kong area and in no other part of China, which is a rather large and populous nation. The efforts and giving of HK Cares focuses on both public and private hospitals in Hong Kong. The group is certainly not limited based on profit motive (or lack thereof) or the people or agency that has a controlling interest in the hospital and its operations.
The mission and vision statements for the foundation are fairly basic and easy to understand. As one might expect, they both center on the care that is to be furnished and provided. The mission statement, as is the norm, focuses on the present. By contrast, the vision statement is more about where the foundation wants to be in the future. Even with the difference between the two, the chords that are struck should obviously be related. The only main difference would be the time horizon in question. With that in mind, the mission statement of HK Cares is to “provide expedient and expansive care to the elderly within Hong Kong area hospitals in a way that is caring, empathetic, efficient and useful”. The vision statement for the group is to “lead by example when it comes to caring for our elderly citizens, inclusive of providing direct care and influencing public policy decisions and spending when it comes to their efforts regarding that same care”. In other words, HK Cares is very much filling in perceived gaps and issues with the care and respect paid to the elderly in their last years. The existing hospital structure is not completely neglectful or otherwise horrible. However, it is stretched a little thin and this leads to care not being as advanced and caring as it could or should be. The efforts of HK Cares allow the paid medical staff to focus on the most vital and life-altering matters while the HK Cares staff helps with things like comfort and minor medical care that does not require advance medical interjection or interaction. Just a few of the common examples of this would be entertaining them, looking after them when hospital personnel are not present, reading to them and helping them with whatever else they need.
As should be clear from the mission and vision discussion noted above, the root goal and motivation of the group is to raise the standard of care for elderly patients in Hong Kong. The existing staff and personnel in the mix certainly mean well. However, there is only so much that they can do given the money and other resources that they do or do not have (Lau). The expansion and improvement of care in these hospitals independent of what volunteers have been offering and continue to offer is going to take a change in public opinion, a change in government and a change in spending priorities. The work of HK Cares is primarily funded and operated by volunteers that are doing what they do for no remuneration. All of the money and services that are leveraged and rendered are being given by people that wish to improve the outcomes and mindsets of the patients that stand to be benefit and be served. It is true that the improvement of services and healthcare outcomes in a nation of more than a billion can be hard to pull off. However, it is possible to do so and it is something that all people should push towards, each in their own way.
Conclusion
The people of HK Cares are certainly not doing what they are doing to get plaudits or compliments. They are not doing it because they wish to guilt-trip anyone or otherwise meddle in a system that already does most of what it should be doing as it is. However, the elderly people of Hong Kong and China should absolutely be rewarded for their years of hard work, parenting or whatever way they served when they were younger. They should not be ditched into hospitals and long-term care facilities only to be forgotten and forsaken. Even if the people rendering care and love are not blood-related family members of the patients, it should be understood that friendship and family are sometimes malleable words and that the patients can feel love, respect and care in more than one way.
Works Cited
Lau, Christina. \\\\"Palliative Care In Hong Kong: Filling The Gaps In Services | News For Doctor,
Nurse, Pharmacist | Oncology | MIMS Hong Kong.\\\\" MIMS News. N.p., 2017. Web. 19
Feb. 2018.