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Nice to meet you, POLST!

August 11, 2021

Thank you to the almost 150 individuals who joined our Meet & Greet the POLST Form virtual session. It was great to see so many stakeholders represented and your thoughts and suggestions made for an excellent discussion. Watch the recording and learn more about the MOLST to POLST Advisory Group.

Health care needs strong leaders, are you ready?

August 5, 2021

The Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation (BCBSMA Foundation) is now recruiting applicants for the eleventh cohort of emerging leaders for the Massachusetts Institute for Community Health Leadership (MICHL) program that begins this fall.

Have you met the POLST form yet?

July 15, 2021

In March 2021, Massachusetts officially began the important work of transitioning the current paper-based MOLST Program to the much improved POLST electronic form and statewide electronic registry. We want to hear your ideas on how to make this a successful transition. Please join us for our first session where we will introduce the POLST form and discuss the changes it introduces.

Got an idea to support family caregivers?

July 7, 2021

The Massachusetts eHealth Institute at MassTech is seeking digital health startups with solutions for unpaid family caregivers to compete in the Massachusetts Digital Health COVID-19 Recovery Challenge. The Challenge is focused on finding solutions for unpaid caregivers who provide support to loved ones outside of traditional child rearing. Applications are due July 30, 2021.

Sister to Sister: Empowering Black women as health care consumers

June 2, 2021

When it comes to getting the care that supports what matters most, there is a lot to talk about. Community Conversations: Sister to Sister in Cambridge, MA provides a forum for Black women to learn from experts -- also Black women -- on everything from allergies to elder care.

Facilities assess visitation policies as COVID-19 restrictions ease

May 27, 2021

From the Betsy Lehman Center for Patient Safety, a Coalition member: Health care facilities in Massachusetts are beginning to ease a series of unprecedented visitation restrictions in place since early 2020. They are now taking stock of lessons learned over the past 15 months about coronavirus transmission, infection risks and the consequences of sequestering patients and people who live in residential care settings away from family caregivers and friends.

C-TAC Policy Forum

April 23, 2021

Our Executive Director, Anna Gosline, is participating in the Coalition to Transform Advanced Care (C-TAC) Policy Forum on May 12, 2021. The forum offers changemakers an insider-view of federal serious illness care policies that they can leverage to drive change in their communities.

Black Women in Leadership from Diva Docs

March 29, 2021

Join Coalition working group member Rev. Gloria E. White-Hammond, MD, MDiv for what's sure to be an extraordinary conversation hosted by Diva Docs Boston, a professional organization of Black Women Physicians in Massachusetts led by Philomena Asante MD, MPH. It's on Wednesday, March 31st at 7pm Eastern.

Nursing Schools Endorse CARES Competencies

March 29, 2021

The Coalition is proud to be partnering with the Massachusetts Association of Colleges of Nursing (MACN) to help ensure nursing students receive the necessary educational foundation to provide compassionate, evidence-based palliative care over the course of serious illness and through the end-of-life. Through this unique partnership, MACN has endorsed the CARES and G-CARES competencies.

Massachusetts is building a state POLST registry

March 29, 2021

We’re excited to announce that Massachusetts is building a state electronic registry to allow clinicians timely and trusted access to the medical forms that document patients' preferences for care near the end of life. The registry will include forms called physician orders for life-sustaining treatment, or POLST.