Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment

State: WASHINGTON
California POLST: Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment

Washington POLST: Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment

New Jersey POLST: Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment

Texas MOST: Medical Orders for Scope of Treatment

Georgia POLST: Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment

Oregon POLST: Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment

Colorado MOST: Medical Orders for Scope of Treatment

Idaho POST: Physician Orders for Scope of Treatment

Nevada POLST: Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment

Delaware DMOST: Delaware Medical Orders for Scope of Treatment

Florida POLST: Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment

New York MOLST: Medical Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment

Hawaii POLST: Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment

Illinois POLST: Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment

Indiana POST: Physician Orders for Scope of Treatment

Iowa IPOST: Iowa Physician Orders for Scope of Treatment

Kansas TPOPP: Transportable Physician Orders for Patient Preferences

Kentucky MOST: Medical Orders for Scope of Treatment

Alaska MOST: Medical Orders for Scope of Treatment

Montana POLST: Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment

Utah POLST: Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment

Virginia POST: Physician Orders for Scope of Treatment

West Virginia POST: Physician Orders for Scope of Treatment

Minnesota POLST: Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment

Wisconsin POLST: Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment

New Mexico MOST: Medical Orders for Scope of Treatment

Pennsylvania POLST: Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment

North Carolina MOST: Medical Orders for Scope of Treatment

Vermont COLST: Clinician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment

Tennessee POST: Physician Orders for Scope of Treatment

Maine POLST: Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment

New Hampshire POLST: Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment

Ohio MOLST: Medical Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment

Narth Dakota MOLST: Medical Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment

Missouri TPOPP: Transportable Physician Orders for Patient Preferences

Alabama doesn’t currently have a POLST program
Mississippi doesn’t currently have a POLST program
Arizona doesn’t currently have a POLST program

Wyo POLST: Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment

Louisiana LaPOST: Louisiana Physician Orders for Scope of Treatment

South Dakota doesn’t currently have a POLST program
Nebraska doesn’t currently have a POLST program
Oklahoma POLST: Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment

Arkansas doesn’t currently have a POLST program
Michigan doesn’t currently have a POLST program
South Carolina POLST: Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment

POLST Form

The POLST form is designed to transfer across treatment settings, so it is readily available to medical personal, including EMTs, emergency physicians and nursing staff.The POLST form accomplishes two major purposes:

  • •It is portable from one care setting to another.
  • •It translates wishes of an individual into actual physician orders.

POLST Screening

POLST Overview

POLST is an approach to improving end-of-life care in the United States, encouraging providers to speak with patients and create specific medical orders to be honored by health care workers during a medical crisis. ! POLST Screening

POLST stands for Physician's Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment. In some states it is called by a different name such as POST, MOLST, MOST, etc.In this discussion all such forms are referred to as POLST. The POLST is generally a one page, two-sided uniquely identifiable form.

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