DPH reviewers tighten MOLST slide deck language, flag pediatric eligibility and legal review

Connecticut Department of Public Health staff and clinical advisers met to finalize a MOLST (Medical Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment) slide deck for training and public-facing education, agreeing to send an edited master for production and to request legal review of pediatric eligibility language.

The meeting matters because the slide deck will be used statewide to train eligible clinicians and to explain how MOLST forms function differently from living wills and advance directives, including that MOLSTs are portable medical orders and that a recent statutory change removed the universal witness-signature requirement.

Attendees spent most of the hour simplifying slide text, aligning terminology to statute, and flagging three items for immediate follow-up: (1) refine provider-eligibility language to match the statute and DPH-prescribed training requirements; (2) send the deck to the production studio so Rich Cayman can build the EMS-facing materials; and (3) have DPH counsel review proposed pediatric eligibility language before those slides are…