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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.

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