Objective: Seeking gainful income in alignment with my stated and lived beliefs, to profit from over 25 years in health and healing services, and to build a strong network for entrepreneurial prosperity in and outside of Hawaii.
Bio: Yukie Yamada was born on March 18, 1961. In 1984, at the age of 23, she left the small, warm swampy pond of Hawaii to live, work and travel in the larger sea of reptiles where challenges from class and race based discrimination are pervasive and endemic.
Unlike most young adults of her generation and ethnicity from Maui, she rejected the mainstream mantra that she should follow a predictable course into a college-based white-collar professional life to support an eventual traditional family unit.
Classmates from her Maui Community College Nursing School will confirm that Yukie frequently fell asleep during lectures in the mini classroom building that had no air conditioning but always was the first to complete exams with no difficulty in maintaining an A grade point average.
After working as a Registered Nurse in Hawaii for two years, she decided to consider medical school and within a month moved to Dallas, Texas for a paid Critical Care Nursing course at Parkland Medical Center
She has told others that it was this experience of working with the indigent population in a County facility that most influenced her choice to not continue into medical training. In fact, it was in a Dallas bookstore in 1986 that she first found Ken Starr’s non-fiction book that documents how our health industry was shaped by intentional political mechanisms created by and for the American Medical Association.
The cultural isolation in Texas during these Regan years led to Yukie’s decision to make the cross-country drive to Northern California where she based her life for study and travel until 1999. In San Francisco, nurses were paid more that twice in salary than in Texas and were supported by a health professional sector that provided them with both the responsibility and the authority for much of the daily operations in their institutions.
It was an optimistic period for health professionals in the late 80’s and early 90’s in urban Northern California. Acute care institutional health culture was supported in the Bay Area by a vast network of community-based organizations, volunteers and educators who believed in providing basic services as an essential to human dignity.
While acute care hospitals that had traditionally served specific ethnic populations struggled to remain financially viable, opportunities for health professionals to participate with effective delivery of services continued to thrive. Integrated community-based models to preserve autonomy in culturally-appropriate ways became part of the mind-set for those at the
front -line of service delivery.
Between the late 80’s until the early 90’s, Yukie spent part of each year traveling the gringo trail in Europe, Mexico, South America and India. Her health-related volunteer experience includes work in Creel, Mexico with Chihuahua’s indigenous Tarahumara group and in Madras, India with Don Bosco de Beatitudes social services.
In 1989, she co-developed Espanol Intensivo for Health Professionals, a Workshop series taught in Sonoma County hospitals until 1993 with a Spanish instructor from Sonoma State University.
Her understanding of health and social services has been supported by extensive volunteer work for over 20 years. These include AIDS Hospice, HIV Prevention Education, Women’s Health, body-based wellness training with short-term addiction rehabilitation clients, service providers, female juvenile sex workers and incarcerated women in San Francisco’s County Jail, at-risk youth, Variety School for learning disabilities, Easter Seals.
In addition to acute care nursing in Critical Care Units and Emergency Room services, she has worked as an Independent Contractor for long-term insurance functional assessments, and as a Case Manager for integrated Pain Management Programs and Foster Elder Care Programs. Her front-line service with other federally subsidized programs through Consumer Directed Personal Assistant Programs with Hawaii’s Department of Health, Department of Education and Department of Human Services resulted in her comprehensive complaint to the Government Accountability Fraud Office and DHHS Fraud Waste and Abuse Office since 2007.
For three months in 2001, she worked as the RN site manager at a federally funded partial incarceration site on Oahu for male juvenile sex offenders who had multiple risk factors including addiction, learning disabilities and psychiatric behavior disorders.
Since 2007, Yukie has refused to license herself as a Registered Nurse to complete her complaint process with Republicans in the House Appropriations Committee. She has reported a pattern of criminal neglect, negligence and intentional malice/discrimination in a significant percentage
of health and social services.
The risks and threats for health professionals who fulfill their legal obligation to report any suspected or verified Fraud Waste and Abuse is part of a corrupt for-profit economic sector that increases funds for increased incidents of abuse through non-transparent litigation and legal tactics.
Fraud Waste and Abuse against and by clients, service providers, and state intermediaries are frequently bilateral. This is compounded by pervasive wire fraud and failures to protect privacy and confidentiality. Severe and hostile conditions exist for any person who responsibly participates in documenting prosecutable incidents that often includes patterns of drug use, abuse and addiction.
Yukie’s own Verizon cell phone account has been proven to be an example of wire terror in information systems. Front-line sales reps have contacted Republicans in the House Appropriation Committee to confirm that my account has on at least two occasions been listed under that wrong name in their data system. In addition, my phone number was found on the credit and auto insurance records of a known drug felon from Paia who claimed to be a medical marijuana dispensary after he went bankrupt in 2008.
While our country is attempting to deliver a trillion-dollar National Health Care Reform package passed through legislation this past year, most of the public dialogue and debate since 2009 was shaped by primary profit stakeholders of our health and research industry.
Much of the specific policy talking points involve providing small payment perks to voting blocs and for restructuring of payment schedules rather than setting a tone for the moral imperative of providing access to basic health services as essential to human dignity.
Health industry stakeholders are aware of the economic abyss, yet health consumers are primarily concerned about delivery of services. Delivery of services is the point of contact where consumers are impacted. Reform cannot be entirely legislated. The moral imperative is to address the need to create a professional culture committed to protecting the sanctity of human dignity and health choices during illness for Americans.
Yukie’s choice to remain at the front-line in the Critical Care Unit and in home-care settings as an advocate for the profession of nursing, for health institutions and for the patient has value in identifying vulnerable points where intentional and unintentional Fraud Waste Abuse can occur.
In her practice, advocacy does not impose beliefs that are outside the realm of the client, nor does it guarantee that information provided will be implemented, nor does it presume that advice is the only source. Even within an agreement to receive institutionalized health care services, each individual is unique in their experience and approach in defining health, illness and even the dying process. As an advocate, factors such as culture, religious belief, life experience and age influence treatment and delivery of services.
Our reliance on information technology for information storage and data collection within our health care industry has increased risks for Fraud Waste and Abuse. Yukie is on record with Congress about her complaint of wire fraud security breaches on the paperless clinical data system at the San Francisco VA Medical Center in the Critical Care Unit in 2004. This computer system allowed Las Vegas neon ads to pop up on patient flow charts. Her concern is for her own rights to privacy as a health provider well as for the patients and veterans at this facility.
After nearly 10 years since Yukie’s return to live in Hawaii, she is committed to addressing the corrupt policies and practices that create profit motives for malicious abuse of power in government and health care. She can prove a pattern of bribes, suspicious contracting offers and abuse to coerce her into activities that are criminal, unethical and outside the boundaries of her conscience. She can also prove an intent to create false association between
her proprietary intellectual property to address workplace power inequities with partisan and commercial agendas that do no represent her beliefs and interests.
Most notably, there is false reference to her legal and political writings with interests/groups with whom she has no affiliation in the Native Hawaiian Sovereignty movement, with Bishop Estate investors, with illegal drug networks and with liberal civil liberties organizations. Her transparent process for a legal and political model to protect her life from exploitation, wire fraud/stalking and wire identity theft is found on the internet since December 2009 in raw, unedited newsletters blog sites under her legal name.
Her newsletters, written from her perspective as a victim of a corrupt and criminalized economy, were acknowledged by FLARE NETWORK, an online newsletter based in Italy. FLARE NETWORK is the first European network of news companies and civil organizations, mostly from Eastern Europe, seeking to build a culture of legality and to dismantle their mafia-based enterprises by reporting on transnational white-collar crimes and drug trafficking. Their website includes policy directives for regional development by exposing transnational information underground systems that link organized crime with corruption in industry and commerce.
Yukie’s effort to eliminate corrupt influences and drug crimes from her daily life has been through email “characters” who wrote to the news media since 2006 and who now have their own internet newsletters and blogs. These “character” newsletters are separate for-profit enterprise sites that provide a mechanism for legal, political and accountability.
Taking a statement of conscience has resulted in severe financial hardship for many years.
To demonstrate her status as a civilian seeking self-sovereignty she has refused any corrupt monies and for the first time applied for general assistance food stamps since April 2010.
Even in this process, she found Fraud Waste and Abuse as it took almost 6 months to receive this assistance after contact with DHS in Wailuku.
Her phone message updates include facts, incidents and news items that are relevant in destroying corruption in our systems and has proposed a radio program concept with the social marketing campaign of a local news company. Her message is reflected by many others who live in Hawaii. The frustration and impotence to create prosperity, health and dignity given
what natural resources exist in perilous economic times is obviously linked to my own experience with this endemic corruption and a policy of Fraud Waste and Abuse.
She is currently posting her id on bulletin boards and making person-to-person contact with merchant groups, small business owners, property owners as a Safe Neighborhood Advocate. As a Safe Neighborhood Advocate she is creating an informal network of contacts, stakeholders and residents who recognize a need to protect our communities and advocate for our own interests against the interests of attorneys, corrupt officials and other vulture-type entities.
The past three years living and working on small, private agricultural properties has been the source of her inner strength. She has documented her experiences living in rural areas of Maui as an ongoing experiment for sustained dignity and a daily practice to build intrinsic value. Meeting those who live and work in these areas provided insight about County-level planning failures to build micro-enterprises for rural economic stability. It has also provided insight into the ongoing risks to Maui’s well-being from international and local drug terror and violence.
Yukie passed her California Real Estate exam many years ago but has never worked in the field. She is planning to obtain land/property as part of her litigation and complaint process with Maui County and the State of Hawaii for having repeatedly violated her rights as a victim and for having given preferential treatment to criminal drug defendants and to her former personal contacts who are corrupt Democrat Party insiders and profit stakeholders.
Honoring her own life needs and choices as a health services professional was supported by the flexibility of work schedules in the Bay Area at all acute care facilities. Her two 12-hour shift weekly work schedule allowed her the ability to cultivate an entire way of life outside an industry that deals with illness and disease.
It was in 1993, after returning from her work in India that Yukie began serious study in movement-based applications for healing. She took her initial workshop in “life-art process” with an instructor from Anna Halprin’s Improvisational work. The life-art process training involves learning to apply functional movement ritual and practice as a means to access an integrated response through imagery, language and emotion. This culminates into a personal “performance” piece which is shared with others who are in the same process.
Yukie had the opportunity to perform with a group of mixed dancers and artists in Anna Halprin’s Retrospective in 1995. This ritual performance in a public venue included performers who had life-threatening illness as a testimony to their experience with loss, death and dying.
In the following year, Yukie participated in Anna’s 9-month improvisation performance workshop that explored the application of developmental and functional movement as form for the evolution of human life from the depth and material foundation of inanimate life through through the instinct of animal and creature.
Study of movement for somatic practice eventually took Yukie into Contact Improvisation and modern dance techniques with other instructors in the Bay Area. In her first two years of Contact Improvisation, she had over a dozen teachers, all of whom found their own language and intent with this dance form. The strongest influence came from anarchist dancers and peformance artists who applied this highly athletic physical form into a way of embodying the natural politics of power and control into our everyday “dance” in everyday life.
With her commitment to movement studies, along with the lumps and bumps that accompany living in a deep kinesthetic awareness, Yukie wanted to find her own conceptual application of movement’s flow into the material world where information systems create and control whole collective structures of human activity, of madness, prosperity and survival. Her study of Laban’s Movement Theory brought into being an understanding that she had already known: that all of life’s intention is found in movement, both internal and expressed.
After her return to Hawaii in 1999, she found no companionship to continue her studies in movement and dance. It was like a dimly-lit desolate scene: a large abandoned parking lot with partially dismantled vehicles and dried debris blowing through the rusted metal dangling at seams.
Yukie started to teach Beginning Contact Improvisation at the UH Manoa Extension College and at the Mid-Pacific Theatre Arts Program in 2000. There were other failed improv efforts that are now barely remembered and will never be remembered by anyone in Honolulu.
She also co-taught Contact Improv at the Studio Maui in the Fall of 2004. At this time, she tries to find the daily “dance” while navigating the course to permanently eliminate from her life the corrupt influences that permeate our Information Age society.
