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MOLST advisory council approves minutes, discusses survey, policy review, slide wording and website updates
Summary
The Department of Public Health’s MOLST advisory council approved minutes for four meetings and spent the session reviewing a member survey, the status of policy and training review, suggested wording changes to training slides (feeding tube/TPN language and disability wording), and updates to a public-facing website and FAQs.
Barbara Cass, senior adviser to the commissioner for the Department of Public Health for long-term care, called the MOLST (Medical Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment) Advisory Council to order at 9:33 a.m. and led the meeting’s business. The council approved minutes for meetings in May, June, July and August by voice vote after a motion to approve was made by Dr. Sussman and seconded by Jim (voice and affiliation not specified). The council then focused on implementation tasks: a membership survey, the status of policy and procedure review and training, suggested wording changes to training slides, and website and FAQ updates.
The council is re-surveying members to determine who will continue on the advisory council, the frequency of meetings after the group finishes its current work, and priorities going forward. “I did send a survey out about two weeks ago… it was three or four questions,” Cass said, and she told members…
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