New England Healthy Living Collective
New England health care leaders working togther to build an integrated cross state care network to ensure every adult's care preferences are known and honored.
Our collaborative mission is to bring together our six states to ensure no matter where you live, receive care, or travel in New England, your care planning documents will be honored in order to receive timely, equitable care that aligns with your choices.
The NE Collective members from Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Maine, Connecticut and Vermont are working together to:
- Provide each state's free planning documents to make a personal health care plan;
- Train Interprofessional Care Team members with a collaborative Health Care Planning Process to engage adults in important conversations and provide state specific planning tools.
Make Your Own Personal Health Care Plan!
Find Your State. Download Free Documents
All Adults, Families and Care Providers
Each state has its own laws and planning documents which protect your right to get the care you want. Click on the state where you live to view your state's planning documents & information. You can download free advance directives or legal & personal documents, to choose an Agent/legal surrogate and write down your care choices. Please note the MOLST/POLST/ COLST and DRN forms are medical orders and must be completed by your clinicians.
Train Interprofessional Care Teams Members using the Honoring Choices Health Care Planning Process tailored to your state documents
Massachusetts Health Care Planning Process
Start with a simple conversation and take the next step to make a personal plan!
The Honoring Choices MA Health Care Planning Process is an easy-to-use structured approach to care planning. The planning process graphic, pictured above, helps consumers and care professionals engage in important Conversations to make care choices (on the left side) and use the accompanying MA Planning Tools to write down care choices (on the right side) to make a personal care plan. The process uses the Honoring Choices MA structured approach to care planning, MA planning tools, and Ariadne Labs Serious Illness Conversation Guide for seamless conversations from simple to serious illness care.
The MA Health Care Planning Process is easily adapted for individual states (see New Hampshire Planning Process below), and can be offered as a comprehensive training to interprofessional care team members. The training provides documents, strategies, and conversation guides to engage adults in early and on-going planning conversations, and deliver the best possible care that honors each person's values, priorities and care choices.
View the Video Here in English with captions in Spanish, Portuguese, and Chinese.
Download the Health Care Planning Process Handout here.
Contact Ellen DiPaola, President & CEO, to learn more.
New Hampshire Health Care Planning Process
New Hampshire (NH) adopts the Massachusetts Health Care Planning Process and Adds NH Planning Tools.
Many thanks to Honoring Choices Partner Janice McDermott, Health Care Decisions Coalition, Foundation for Healthy Communities and her committee who adopted the Honoring Choices Massachusetts Planning Process to help ensure every adult in New Hampshire can start a simple conversation to appoint a Health Care Agent and take the next steps to make their own personal care plan.
The planning process graphic (pictured above) offers important Conversations to make care choices (on the left side), and NH Planning Tools to write down care choices (on the right side). Using the same structured approach to planning helps strengthen the Massachusetts and New Hampshire cross state collaboration to ensure all care providers can understand and honor a person's care preferences.
Download the New Hampshire Planning Graphic with Additional Tools & Information
Rhode Island Care Planning Tool Kit 
With the guidance of our RI Partners, we put together a simple health care planning tool kit for RI residents.
Starting at 18 years old, adults can make their own health care decisions and write down their decisions in a health care plan. This tool kit includes Rhode Island care planning information, documents, and links to local resources.
Download the RI Care Planning Tool Kit here.
Download a free RI Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care document to get started! View Here!
New Hampshire
Rhode Island
- Therese Rochon, MS, MA, FNP-C, ACHPN, VNA Care New England, National POLST State Representative
- Kelly Baxter, DNP, FNP-BC, ACHPN, Baxter Palliative Consulting, LLC, National POLST State representative
- Patricia A Chace MD, CMD, Medical Director, OPTUM Complex Care Management;
Vermont
Maine
- Advance Care Planning, Maine Health
- Kandyce Powell, Maine Hospice Council, National POLST State Representative