News

In this issue:

• A message from Anna
• New Workbook: What Matters to Me
• More than a Visit: Inclusion of Essential Care Partners in a time of COVID
• JPSM Call to Address Systemic Racism

In this issue:

• A new voice at the Coalition
• Thinking differently about Advance Care Planning
• Continuing the dialogue about e-MOLST

Guidelines for balancing safety, connection, and well-being during COVID

In this issue:

• Join us for a virtual discussion on Massachusetts' new e-MOLST portal
• We're offering 20% off the course Shifting Deathcare, from Going with Grace
• Welcome to three new members: Dignity Alliance Massachusetts, Our Odyssey, and NorthStar Health Navigation!

• Emolst portal now available
• Recent studies
• What's on our reading list

In this issue:

• Taking an equity-first lens to our work
• Communication creates connection and comfort during COVID-19

In this issue:

• Our 5th Annual Summit
• Let's Keep Talking
• Members are innovating around patient communication

Protests against police brutality are reinvigorating efforts to address racial disparities, top health care sector leaders say. At an online summit hosted by the Massachusetts Coalition for Serious Illness Care, prominent Brigham and Women’s surgeon and writer Atul Gawande, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts CEO Andrew Dreyfus, and the Institute for Health Care Improvement’s Kate DeBartolo said they’re committed to fixing racial disparities.

Massachusetts residents and Americans across the nation continue to flatten the curve, but health experts are preparing for more “curves” in mental health care that will be seen in a post-pandemic world.

Host Arun Rath interviewed several guests about how the COVID-19 pandemic is impacting hospitals, patients, and caregivers, including Anna Gosline on the importance of Advance Care Planning