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.