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Amy Gelineau

2022 MGA Annual Meeting Thursday, January 20th at 8:00 A.M.

January 11, 2022 By Amy Gelineau

Featuring Ellen M. DiPaola, JD, President and CEO of Honoring Choices Massachusetts

Ellen M. DiPaola, JD, is the President and CEO of Honoring Choices Massachusetts. She chairs the Guardianship-Serious Illness Advisory Group, co-sponsored by Massachusetts Health and Hospital Association. Ms. DiPaola is the co-chair of the MOLST to POLST Advisory Group, MA Coalition for Serious Illness Care. Ms. DiPaola is the state representative to National POLST, chairing their Patient-Consumer Education Workgroup.

Ms. DiPaola will review the significant challenges in our current MOLST program, and review the proposed MA adoption of the National POLST Program, which includes a new National POLST form and a MA ePOLST Registry. She will ask for your feedback on proposed recommendations to improve the legal-medical-court alignment to ensure due process protections and the delivery of timely, equitable care for all seriously ill adults under guardianship.

MGA End of Year Virtual Networking Event

November 10, 2020 By Amy Gelineau

Dec 2, 2020, 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM

Join the MGA for a night of virtual networking and to hear year-end financial planning tips for 2020.

Due to the signing of the CARES Act, Required Minimum Distributions have been suspended for the year. This has made some strategies more appealing. Tune in for some quick year-end planning tips and to connect with other members of the guardianship community.

Guest Speaker: Affinia Financial Group

Contest: The MGA will be giving away a free year MGA Membership to the participant with the most unique cocktail recipe!

To join our virtual event, email MassGuardianshipAssociation@gmail.com and we will send you the Zoom meeting information!


 We look forward to speaking with you in December!

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