Walmart gives isle nonprofits $238,000

Six Hawaii-based nonprofits have received grants totaling $238,000 from the Walmart Foundation.

The grants support a variety of initiatives including hunger relief, healthy eating and career opportunity and job training for women. Other Hawaii nonprofits are encouraged to apply for the final cycle of the 2016 Hawaii State Giving Council’s grants, which ends Friday. Minimum grant amounts are $25,000.

The 2016 grant recipients to date are Aloha Harvest, $25,000; Hawaii Foodbank, $60,000; Maui Food Bank, $45,000; The Kohala Center, $28,000; The Salvation Army Hawaiian & Pacific Islands Division (TSA), $50,000; and YWCA of Hawaii Islands, $30,000.

The Walmart Foundation’s Hawaii State Giving Council, comprised of local Walmart associates, reviews applications and determines the local grants. To be considered for support, prospective grantee organizations must submit applications through the Walmart Foundation State Giving Program’s online grant application. Applicants must have current 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status to meet the program’s minimum eligibility criteria. Additional information about the program’s funding guidelines and application process is available online at giving.walmart.com.

Mobile massage service opens on Oahu

Mobile Massage in Paradise debuted its on-demand service Tuesday on Oahu.

The local startup provides the ability to choose the gender of the therapist, the length of massage and style (lomilomi, Swedish, deep tissue, prenatal, sports, couples, private events and chair massages). Clients can book online at www.MassageInParadise.com or call 626-5222. Massages can be scheduled from two hours in advance to as long as three months ahead of time.

Therapists are available every day from 8 a.m. to 10:30 pm. Gifts, discount packages and recurring corporate massage programs are available. The pricing per therapist is $99 (60 minutes), $139 (90 minutes) and $169 (120 minutes).

Hawaii’s home health care costs rise 3.1 percent

The annual median cost of home health care in Hawaii rose 3.1 percent to $57,772 in 2015 over the previous year, according to Genworth’s 13th annual Cost of Care Survey released Tuesday. That compares with the national annual median of $46,332.

Long-term care costs across the state, including adult day services, grew 1.9 percent to $17,550, while assisted living and nursing home care increased 3.1 percent to $49,500 and 3.8 percent to $129,575, respectively. Private-room nursing home care rose 4.6 percent to $141,310.

The survey identified key metro area costs in Hawaii:

>> Assisted-living costs are 36.4 percent less expensive in the Kahului metro area than the state average at $2,625 per month.

>> Homemaker services costs are 32.5 percent more expensive in the Kahului metro area than the national average at $5,053 per month.

>> The cost of private nursing home care in urban Honolulu is 38.3 percent more expensive than the national average at $10,646 per month.

Roughly 70 percent of Americans will require long-term care by the time they reach age 70, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

On the move

Bank of Hawaii has announced the following new senior vice presidents:

>> Christopher “Chris” Otto has been promoted to president of Bankoh Investment Services Inc. and to senior vice president from vice president at Bank of Hawaii. Since 2000 Otto has worked for the bank in various positions, including as a senior sales assistant in BISI, a trust officer in the Retirement Plan Services and a sales and financial planning manager in BISI in 2014.

>> Thanh Tran has been promoted to senior vice president from vice president in the Employee and Client Experience Department. Tran joined the Bank of Hawaii’s Treasury Department in 2010, then moved to the Card Products Department as a product manager in 2011. Prior to becoming an employee at Bank of Hawaii, Tran worked for BlackRock and Procter & Gamble.