THE MASSACHUSETTS MOLST PROJECT AS A COLLABORATING MEMBER

Today Honoring Choices is pleased to introduce the Massachusetts MOLST Project as a Collaborating Member. In joining the Honoring Choices platform, Christine McCluskey, MOLST Director, announced that “The MOLST Project welcomes a collaborative partnership with Honoring Choices Massachusetts.

Distinguishing the MOLST Project as a primary spoke in the wheel of health care planning, Ms. McCluskey points to the connection in which “our complementary missions speak to the need to plan in advance for serious illness, beginning with encouraging all Massachusetts residents 18 years and older to have a health care proxy, to considering the appropriateness of a MOLST conversation with a clinician for a person with serious advanced illness.” The MOLST website has a wealth of information including explanations for patients and families, health care professionals, and lawyers, as well as sample forms with instructions, and a comprehensive listing of definitions in the MOLST Glossary.

In our first steps of collaboration, Honoring Choices Massachusetts has adopted the MOLST Glossary to help standardize health care planning terms and definitions in Massachusetts.

MOLST, which began with the Acts of 2008 in which the Legislature required the establishment of a Massachusetts MOLST demonstration program, has since grown towards achieving statewide use of the MOLST process and form. Through the Project, all clinical care institutions are encouraged to learn about MOLST and MOLST implementation, including at such events as the upcoming MOLST Regional Meeting on Monday, November 18, 8-12pm, at Lahey Health in Burlington, and Friday, December 6, 8-12:15pm at Newton Wellesley Hospital, Newton.

Through this collaborative effort, “We look forward to working together to ensure that patient preferences and treatment decisions are communicated and honored across care settings in Massachusetts.”

Read more about MOLST as part of your personal Health Care Plan on the Plan page.