LIVE WEBINAR: Palliative Care: Aligning the Team Around the Patient
On Tuesday, June 19, 2018, Honoring Choices is co-sponsoring a unique workshop for all clinicians and care providers along with Honoring Choices Partners the Massachusetts Medical Society, American Cancer Society, Hospice & Palliative Care Federation of MA and Lahey Health. Many physicians and clinical care teams have not received formal training in palliative medicine yet…
Read MoreTake the Portal Challenge- 1 Minute Survey
As many good ideas do, it began, with a simple question at a recent membership meeting of the MA Coalition for the Prevention of Medical Errors (MA Coalition). The MA Coalition’s members, quality and safety professionals from health care, community organizations and state agencies, were having a thoughtful exchange with Ellen DiPaola, President, Honoring Choices…
Read MoreLet’s Get Ready: April Health Care Decisions Month
Our 4th Annual April National Health Care Decisions Month celebration is underway. The Honoring Choices Partners & Friends will shortly receive a “April Celebration Packet” of fun event ideas, MA planning documents and flyers to plan your own activities & events. Our popular “April Calendar of Events” will be posted on the Honoring Choices website by March 15…
Read More2017 YEAR-IN-REVIEW: Thank you Honoring Choices Partners & Friends!
What a year! Our wholehearted thanks to the thousands of Honoring Choices Partners and Friends using our proven programs and planning tools to help adults in their community. Your collaborative work is making a significant impact to improve health outcomes and person-directed care for all adults in the Commonwealth. Honoring Choices Massachusetts (HCM) is a…
Read MoreWorcester Elder Affairs/Senior Center Helps Launch MY VOICE, MY CHOICE
We were delighted to collaborate with Amy Waters, Executive Director, Worcester Elder Affairs/Senior Center, an Honoring Choices Community Partner, to bring you the diverse voices of Massachusetts adults sharing their personal stories as they navigate their own health care planning journeys. Last August, the Worcester Senior Center’s Multi-Cultural Committee invited adults in their community to…
Read MoreFallon Health “Pays it Forward” to Sponsor a Translated Document
Fallon Heath, an Honoring Choices Community Partner, has awarded Honoring Choices a generous contribution from their “Pay It Forward” Program. The funds will directly support our newly launched “Everyone, Everyday”campaign, to ensure all adults 18 years old and older, can access health care planning information within their own language, culture and ability. Fallon Health is…
Read MoreCake Partners with Honoring Choices
We are delighted to partner with Cake (joincake.com) to bring online health care planning and end-of-life care planning to the Honoring Choices’ Partner network. Cake makes it easy to create your Honoring Choices Health Care Proxy and Personal Directive documents and end of life care preferences on-line, then store and share with loved ones and other…
Read MoreUMass Memorial Health Care partners with Honoring Choices Massachusetts
We are thrilled to welcome UMass Memorial Health Care to the statewide Honoring Choices Community Partner Network. UMass Memorial Health Care is the largest health care system in Central Massachusetts and includes 4 hospitals: UMass Memorial Medical Center (Worcester); HealthAlliance-Clinton Hospital (Clinton, Burbank and Leominster), and Marlborough Hospital. UMass Memorial Health Care is the clinical partner of UMass…
Read MoreNEW Ambassador Program: Powerful peer-to-peer discussions to improve healthy living
Together with our Community Partners, we are delighted to start our 4th year by launching the new Honoring Choices MA Ambassador Program. The Ambassador Program taps into the power of community volunteers to offer peer-to-peer health care planning information to adults & families anywhere they live, work and gather. Ambassadors are volunteers of all ages…
Read MoreCommunity Partners Join Forces to Launch the First Ambassador Program
“I think people don’t realize that doing a simple Health Care Proxy and Personal Directive can take the burden off your family in knowing how to care for you,” says Brenda Coss, an Honoring Choices Ambassador. When a medical crisis happens, the decisions are already made and in your documents. All your family has to do…
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