New England Healthy Living Collective
New England health care leaders are working together to improve integrated cross state care to ensure every adult's care preferences are known and honored.
The New England Healthy Living Collective includes leaders and organizations from six states: Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Vermont, Maine, and Connecticut. Our collaborative mission is to improve access to state specific planning documents and help ensure no matter where you live, receive care, or travel in New England, your planning documents will be honored to receive timely, equitable care that aligns with your care choices.
Make Your Own Personal Health Care Plan!
Find Your State. Download Free Care Planning Documents
Each state has its own laws and planning documents which protect your right to get the care you want.
Click on the state where you live below to view your state's planning documents & information. You can download free advance directives or legal and personal documents, to choose an Agent/legal surrogate and write down your care choices. Please note the MOLST/POLST/ COLST and DRN forms are medical orders and must be completed by your clinicians.
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We can tailor the process to include your state documents and tools!
Massachusetts Health Care Planning Process
Start with a simple conversation and take the next step to make a personal plan!
The Honoring Choices MA Health Care Planning Process is an easy-to-use structured approach to care planning. The planning process graphic, pictured above, helps consumers and care professionals engage in important Conversations to make care choices (on the left side) and use the accompanying MA Planning Tools to write down care choices (on the right side) to make a personal care plan. The process uses the Honoring Choices MA structured approach to care planning, MA planning tools, and Ariadne Labs Serious Illness Conversation Guide for seamless conversations from simple to serious illness care.
The MA Health Care Planning Process is easily adapted for individual states (see New Hampshire Planning Process below), and can be offered as a comprehensive training to interprofessional care team members. The training provides documents, strategies, and conversation guides to engage adults in early and on-going planning conversations, and deliver the best possible care that honors each person's values, priorities and care choices.
View the Video Here in English with captions in Spanish, Portuguese, and Chinese.
Download the Health Care Planning Process Handout here.
Contact Ellen DiPaola, President & CEO, to learn more.
New Hampshire Health Care Planning Process
New Hampshire (NH) adopts the Honoring Choices MA Health Care Planning Process and Adds NH Planning Tools and Documents
Many thanks to Honoring Choices Partner Janice McDermott, Health Care Decisions Coalition, Foundation for Healthy Communities and her committee who adopted the Honoring Choices Massachusetts Planning Process to help ensure every adult in New Hampshire can start a simple conversation to appoint a Health Care Agent and take the next steps to make their own personal care plan.
The planning process graphic (pictured above) offers important Conversations to make care choices (on the left side), and NH Planning Tools to write down care choices (on the right side). Using the same structured approach to planning helps strengthen the Massachusetts and New Hampshire cross state collaboration to ensure all care providers can understand and honor a person's care preferences.
Download the New Hampshire Planning Graphic with Additional Tools & Information
With the guidance from our RI Partners, we put together a simple health care planning tool kit for RI residents.
Starting at 18 years old, adults can make their own health care decisions and write down their decisions in a health care plan. This tool kit includes Rhode Island care planning information, documents, and links to local resources.
Download the RI Care Planning Tool Kit here.
Download a free RI Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care document to get started! View Here!
Rhode Island
- Kelly Baxter, DNP, FNP-BC, ACHPN, Baxter Palliative Consulting, LLC, National POLST State representative
- Patricia A Chace MD, CMD, Medical Director, OPTUM Complex Care Management;
Vermont
Maine
- Advance Care Planning, Maine Health
- Kandyce Powell, Maine Hospice Council, National POLST State Representative
