POLST Supporters

Sponsorship Opportunities

2020 Annual POLST National Governance Meeting

Join us as a sponsor at our Annual POLST National Governance Meeting. Originally scheduled for April, this is now planned as a virtual conference in October 2020.
Learn more and download application form

Resolutions Supporting POLST

The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine (AMDA)
- Adoption of National POLST Resolution A20 (2020).
- POLST Policy D-14 (2014).
American Medical Association
- Recognition of POLST Forms D-85.992 (2018).
American College of Emergency Physicians:
- Guidelines for Emergency Physicians on POLST (PDF, 2017).
American Bar Association
- Recommendation regarding POLST (PDF, 2008).
American Association of Family Physicians
- Support of Medical Orders for End-of-Life Care (2008, 2015).

Other Support for POLST

The Pew Charitable Trusts
- Improving End-of-Life Care (2015)
National Association of Social Workers
- Recommendations for the 2015 White House Conference on Aging (PDF, 2015)
Institute of Medicine (now the National Academy of Medicine)
- Dying in America report (PDF, 2014)
AARP
- Public Policy Institute report (PDF, 2011)
Catholic Health Association
- Ethical Currents publication (PDF, 2010)

National POLST Conflict of Interest Policy

This Conflict of Interest (COI) Policy governs National POLST only, not any of the state POLST Programs. National POLST encourages each state POLST Program to have its own COI policy, reflecting their own values and philosophies. If you have any questions, please contact us or the applicable state POLST Program for more information.

Thank You to our Funders (past and present)!

Naveon®
Naveon® supports patient, their loved ones and care teams navigating serious illness together. Thank you, NAVEON®, for permitting National POLST to use select videos.
Naveon® is a registered trademark of Care+ Ventures LLC. None of the videos may be duplicated or used in any format without the expressed written consent of Care+ Ventures, LLC.

Cabot Cheese
The dairy farm families who own Cabot Creamery Co-operative support National POLST to assure that the individual end-of-life care voices are heard among all medical support teams in the communities in which we farm and where we sell our cheddar.

Cambia Health Solutions Fund of the Oregon Community Foundation
Special thanks to Bruce Smith for choosing to donate his leadership support funding to National POLST.