Achieving Reciprocity, Advancing Health Equity Across New England

Q: If you are traveling in New Hampshire or Connecticut and suddenly require acute medical care- would your MA Health Care Proxy and MA MOLST form be honored?

A: Unfortunately, due to different state laws and different forms, MA documents are not always honored across borders.

The New England Healthy Living Collective (NE Collective), health care and age and dementia friendly leaders from Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Vermont and Maine, are working diligently to ensure access to timely, equitable care aligned with an individual’s care planning documents DOES NOT stop at the border.

Our collaborative goal is to create reciprocity on care planning documents across six states setting in motion a major health equity policy change that ensures timely person-centered care for 12 million New Englanders.

The NE Collective, convened by Honoring Choices MA, is delighted to welcome special guest Amy Vandenbroucke, JD, Executive Director National POLST, to our October 13, 2021, Noon-1pm meeting. Ms. Vandenbroucke will share her expertise on coordinating and creating state and national reciprocity on planning documents.
We’ve made great strides in advancing our goal, and welcome administrators, decision-makers, health care providers working in multiple states, and consumers living on our borders to join the meeting to share their experiences.

The NE Collective brings together health care and aging leaders in six states to synergize our missions and build an integrated cross-state care network to improve equity in healthy aging. One of our goals is to ensure every adult has access state-specific planning documents, that will be honored no matter where you live, receive care or travel in New England.

To join the meeting, email Ellen for the zoom information, edipaola@honoringchoicesmass.com
To download state specific planning documents from MA, NH, RI, CT, VT and ME, click here.