End-of-Life Care

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Congratulations to our 2024 Bree Collaborative award winner for Best Practices in End-of-life Planning:

UW Medicine and UW Physicians
MultiCare
United Healthcare

Read our Report and Recommendations

(Adopted November 2014)

Patients often do not receive the care they and their families want at the end of life. This workgroup met from January to November 2014 to develop the following focus areas, increasing:

Awareness of advance care planning, advance directives, and POLST in Washington State
The number of people who participate in advance care planning in the clinical and community settings
The number of people who record their wishes and goals for end-of-life care using documents that: accurately represent their values; are easily understandable by all readers including family members, friends, and health care providers; and can be acted upon in the health care setting
The accessibility of completed advance directives and POLST for health systems and providers
The likelihood that a patient’s end-of-life care choices are honored

Supporting Materials

Letter from Health Care Authority Accepting End-of-Life Care Report and Recommendations
End-of-Life
Care Public Comment Summary
Workgroup Charter
The Washington State Medical Association’s Know Your Choices Campaign

Workgroup Members

Member	Title	Organization
Anna Ahrens	Director of Patient and Family Support Services	MultiCare Health System
J. Randall Curtis, MD, MPH	Professor of Medicine, Director	University of Washington Palliative Care Center of Excellence
Trudy James	Chaplain	Heartwork
Bree Johnston, MD	Medical Director, Palliative Care	PeaceHealth
Abbi Kaplan	Principal	Abbi Kaplan Company
Timothy Melhorn, MD	Internist	Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital (YVMH) and the Memorial Foundation
Joanne Roberts, MD	Chief Medical Officer, NMR Administration	Providence Everett Regional Medical Center
John Robinson, MD (Chair)	Chief Medical Officer	First Choice Health
Bruce Smith, MD (Vice Chair)	Associate Medical Director, Strategy Deployment	Group Health Physicians
Richard Stuart, DSW	Clinical Professor Emeritus, Psychiatry	University of Washington