Your CarePlan™ (YCP)
POLST Completion Tool
Your CarePlan was created to help patients make informed choices about treatment decisions. But it was also created for you, to help script the conversation around end-of-life (EOL) decisions, improve health literacy and ensure informed consent when completing the POLST form.
Helps reduce hospital readmissions
Enables you to deliver care that is better aligned with your patient’s wishes
Web-based with guided scripts, gentle prompts and short, straight-forward informational videos
Automatically populate a POLST form with completion of each section
POLST form can be printed for the patient and authorized HCP to sign
Healthcare providers with eligible patients in:
long-term care facilities
hospitals
community practices
Using Your CarePlan to complete a POLST form:
Makes it easy to have these often uncomfortable conversations
Improves patient health literacy
Ensures informed consent
Reduces unnecessary hospital readmissions
Increases referrals and earlier access to palliative and hospice care
Reduces the burdens of serious illness on patients and caregivers
Helps HCPs deliver care aligned to a patient’s values and goals
Free
Learn how to effectively use Your CarePlan, a video-guided program that helps health care providers (HCPs) complete POLST forms with eligible patients in long-term care facilities, hospitals, and outpatient practices.