{"id":24880,"date":"2020-03-06T15:48:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-06T23:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/?p=24880"},"modified":"2023-11-22T16:15:17","modified_gmt":"2023-11-23T00:15:17","slug":"learn-about-polst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/news\/learn-about-polst\/","title":{"rendered":"Learn About POLST"},"content":{"rendered":"<article class=\"article\">\n\t<header class=\"header\">\n\t\t<span class=\"type\"><\/span>\t\t<h1>Learn About POLST<\/h1>\t\t<time>March 6, 2020<\/time>\n\t<\/header>\n\t<div id=\"block_dd9e44a98abcd0a0b97de398772c1328\" class=\"shs-block block-news-article entry-content\">\n\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"acf-innerblocks-container\">\n\n<p>Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment &#8211; or POLST &#8211; have been around for 24 years in Oregon yet many of us do not know about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>POLST is a simple medical order that outlines the preferred treatment options of a patient with a progressive illness or condition who may be near the end of life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It provides simple medical orders that can immediately be put into effect by any first responder or clinician.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is a brightly colored, single-page standardized form that can be quickly identified by emergency responders throughout much of the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The POLST Registry maintains a secure and confidential electronic record of POLST orders that can be accessed by emergency medical professionals during a crisis, when a paper copy cannot be found.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orpolstregistry.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">orpolstregistry.org<\/a> to learn more.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<aside>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"360\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/graphic-polst-clipboard-002-CO.jpg\" class=\"attachment-cta size-cta wp-post-image\" alt=\"Graphic of a clipboard.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/graphic-polst-clipboard-002-CO.jpg 360w, https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/graphic-polst-clipboard-002-CO-300x250.jpg 300w, https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/graphic-polst-clipboard-002-CO-120x100.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/figure>\t\t<\/aside>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment &#8211; or POLST &#8211; have been around for 24 years in Oregon yet many of us do not know about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":13071,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":"","_shs_workflow_notes":"March 06, 2020","_shs_exclude_from_navigation":false,"_shs_promote_article_on_blogs":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"news-topics":[294,282],"news-types":[270],"services":[242],"specialty":[34],"class_list":["post-24880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","news-topics-womens-health","news-topics-mens-health","news-types-feature-article","services-hospice-palliative-care","specialty-hospice"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24880"},{"taxonomy":"news-topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-topics?post=24880"},{"taxonomy":"news-types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-types?post=24880"},{"taxonomy":"services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/services?post=24880"},{"taxonomy":"specialty","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/specialty?post=24880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}