Tuesday 14 June 2016

Donna Ching Fang Kao - Fostering Community for Recent Immigrants

If you ask Donna Ching Fang Kao what the most important aspect of a professional career is, she is definitely not going to say money. Ms. Kao is an established professional who has built a career on the needs and challenges facing her local community. Rather than selfishly pursuing a career that is self-serving, Ms. Kao has used the personal challenges in her life to motivate her career path in order to help the people around her. As the daughter of a medical physician and registered nurse, Ms. Kao initially started her career in the healthcare industry. After receiving a Nursing Education Scholarship, she decided to pursue her Bachelor’s of Science at the University of Public Health Nursing School in Taipei, Taiwan.

While her foundational medical expertise is an important aspect of her career, another title was important to Donna Kao –a respectedbusinesswoman. After forming relationships with two major real estate developers in Taiwan who were building hospitals, clinics, physical therapy centers, and other medical facilities, Ms. Kao realized that real estate could be a means of bringing healthcare to more people than just her patients. After moving to the United States, she obtained her real estate license from the State of California. Now, armed with a medical degree and a real estate license, Ms. Kao established a free clinic for the Chinese community in Southern California.

She also received a Spa Hospitality Management Certificate and used this credential to open the Beverly Hills Anti-Aging Group clinic. Within her local community of Asian immigrants, she wanted to bring accessible healthcare to a percent of the population that otherwise not receive it. For the last two years, Donna Kao has been working as the Professional Elderly Care Consultant for the Qiao Garden Group, formerly the Watanabe Group. The Qiao Garden Group, established in 1989, engages in commercial real estate investment and development. This includes real estate in the chain vacation health industry, chain office industry, high-end dining industry, and the cultural media industry.

For Donna Kao – diversity and real estate go hand in hand. Her personal experiences as an immigrant give her an intimate understanding of the challenges that face people trying to work and live in the United States. Understanding these bureaucratic challenges led Ms. Kao to establish an Asian specific marketing and consulting office for the Monterey Park Hospital. This service helps immigrants deal with the bureaucratic challenges of immigrating to the United States. Her ultimate goal is to improve the quality of life for immigrants in the United States, as well as improving the relations between the United States and China.

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