Offering and Honoring Choices

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​Offering and Honoring Choices™

In 2012, Partnership HealthPlan of California (PHC) began the Offering and Honoring Choices™ initiative to ensure that its members and their families are knowledgeable about health care treatment options, empowered to define their treatment goals, and able to make informed choices about the interventions they choose during the last years of life. 

The main Offering and ​Honoring Choices™ ​areas are:
    Advance Care Planning
    Palliative Care
    Policy and Public Education and Engagement

Advance Care Planning is doing what we can to ensure the health care treatment we may receive is consistent with our wishes and preferences should we be unable to make our own decisions or speak for ourselves.

Palliative Care is patient and family-centered care that optimizes quality of life by anticipating, preventing, and treating suffering. Palliative care throughout the continuum of illness involves addressing physical, intellectual, emotional, social, and spiritual needs and facilitating patient autonomy, access to information, and choice. 

Activities in fostering policy development and public engagement are geared toward supporting legislation related to and consumer engagement in advance care planning and palliative care. 

Click here for a summary of PHC's Partners in Palliative Care pilot Implementation Evaluation.
Click here for a summary of PHC's Partners in Palliative Care pilot Financial Evaluation.

 

​Advance Care Planning

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ACP Decisions - Click here for videos and other resources on advance care planning for providers, patients, and families.

Chinese American Coalition for Compassionate Care - Click here for information on an organization focused on advance care planning for the Chinese community.

Coalition for Compassionate Care of California (CCCC) - CCCC promotes high-quality, compassionate care for everyone who is seriously ill or nearing the end of life – click here to learn more. CCCC developed a train-the-trainer ACP curriculum and additional resources for providers in PHC’s network to train staff on ACP and its importance – click here to access the curriculum. 

The Conversation Project - Click here for information on how to get started with advance care planning.  

National Healthcare Decision Day - Click here for multiple resources on advance care planning. April 16 is the day designated to inspire, educate and empower the public and providers about the importance of advance care planning.

Advance Care Planning Forms

Information from PREPARE, a program to help you make medical decisions for yourself and others, can be viewed by clicking here and an Advance Health Care Directive form can be accessed by clicking here.

The Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment (POLST) form is available in multiple languages by clicking here. 

​​Palliative Care 
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ACP Decisions - Click here for videos and other resources on palliative care for providers, patients, and families.

The California State University (CSU) Institute for Palliative Care - Click here to view professional development in palliative care for multiple disciplines.

Coalition for Compassionate Care of California (CCCC) - Click here for training and resources on palliative care.  CCCC promotes high-quality, compassionate care for everyone who is seriously ill or nearing the end of life.