Archive for November 2015

The Conversation Project, an Honoring Choices Collaborating Partner, is helping congregations this week to celebrate their readiness to talk about their end of life care wishes. Starting November 6 and continuing through to November 15, dozens of congregations in the Greater Boston area, regardless of religious denomination, are coming together for “Conversation Sabbath”.  Clergy leaders…

CMS Makes Advance Care Planning Discussions Reimbursable  On October 30, 2015, The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services issued a change in the regulations allowing reimbursements to  physicians and other qualified professionals for engaging in advance care planning discussions with patients and families, Health Care Agents and Guardians. This long hoped-for change is now official.…

Last Wednesday,  over 50 South Shore care providers and community groups, from Quincy to Plymouth and the Cape, came together to learn about health care planning information and tools, and to plan their next steps in building a strong community network of person-centered care. The October 28 workshop, “Honoring Choices: Health care Planning through Conversations…