Health Care Decision Making: Goals and - Maryland MOLST 2025

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  2. Begin with Section I, where you will identify situations requiring health care decision making. Use the provided prompts to clarify patient wishes and goals.
  3. Move to Section II, which focuses on choosing treatment options. Here, you can select preferences for life-sustaining treatments by checking the appropriate boxes.
  4. In Section III, implement treatment choices via the MOLST Order Form. Discuss these options with the patient or authorized decision maker before finalizing.
  5. Complete Sections IV and any appendices as necessary, ensuring all relevant information is documented accurately.
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The MOLST is completed after a thoughtful discussion with the patient, health care agent or surrogate based on the patients current health status, prognosis, and goals of care. This fulfills the ethical-legal requirements under New York Public Health Law.
Maryland MOLST is a portable and enduring medical order form covering options for cardiopulmonary resuscitation and other life-sustaining treatments. The medical orders are based on a patients wishes about medical treatments.
Using MOLST, with the informed consent of the patient, the patients doctor could issue medical orders for life-sustaining treatment, including any or all of the following medical orders: provide comfort measures (palliative care) only; do not attempt resuscitation (allow natural death); do not intubate; do not
These decisions should reflect your own values and priorities. A Maryland law called the Health Care Decisions Act says that you can do health care planning through advance directives. An advance directive can be used to name a health care agent. This is someone you trust to make health care decisions for you.
In contrast to a Health Care Proxy, the MOLST applies as soon as a patient consents to the orders in it and a physician, nurse practitioner, or physician assistant signs it. It is not conditional on a determination that a patient has lost medical decision-making capacity.
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The MOLST program is based on the belief that patients have the right to make their own healthcare decisions, including decisions about life-sustaining treatment, to describe these wishes to healthcare providers, and to receive comfort care while wisher are being honored.
Unlike an advance directive or living will, which are legal documents outlining general wishes, a MOLST form provides specific instructions to healthcare providers about the patients desired treatment.

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