PCPRV Receives Grant to Implement POST
(Physician Orders for Scope of Treatment)
The Palliative Care Partnership of the Roanoke Valley has received a $22,000 Geriatric Training and Education (GTE) Initiative Grant from the Virginia Center for Aging for a pilot project to implement the Physicians’ Orders for Scope of Treatment (POST) form in the Roanoke Valley.
- A POST form is a set of physician-signed orders which communicates and implements patient preferences for end-of-life treatment.
- The form is transferable across treatment settings of participating health care agencies.
- A POST form may be appropriate for people who are either terminally ill or are seriously ill with chronic, progressive disease.
Agencies participating in this project include:
- Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital
- Friendship Health & Rehab Center
- Richfield Recovery and Care Center
- Carilion Clinics Hospice – Roanoke
- Good Samaritan Hospice -- Roanoke
- Amedisys Hospice
- Medi Home Health & Hospice
Ultimately, the PCPRV hopes this project will be a catalyst for adopting the POST form and process on a statewide level similar to other states, including West Virginia and Oregon.
POST FAQ's
For more information about the PCPRV project contact:
Laura Pole at lpchef@earthlink.net
Next Meeting:
Friday, January 13
at 7:30 a.m. at Friendship Manor
We will be meeting slightly longer than usual and the PCP-NRV group will be joining us to do some strategic planning. Our regular meeting will start at 7:30 for a treasurer's report and update on POST. The strategic planning portion of the meeting will start at 8:00a.m. and end no later than 11. If you can only attend for part of the meeting, please do so -- your participation is welcome for any length of time!
Please note the change in location:
Board Room, Friendship Health & Rehab Center -- 327 Hershberger Road NW, Roanoke, VA 24012. This is on the same campus as our usual meeting room in the Residents' Center, but is in the nursing home building. Enter the lobby in the front of the building, the Board Room is to the left across from the glass-enclosed conference room ("The Fishbowl").
To visit Friendship, take Exit 3E (Hershberger Road / Airport; Rt. 101 East) off of I-581.
Go 1.8 miles, passing through four stoplights:
At Wendy's / BB&T
Taco Bell / Wachovia
Walgreens / Shell (Williamson Road)
Light at the corner of the FRC campus (Florist Road)
Continue briefly down Hershberger until you see a sign on your left
that says Friendship Health and Rehab Center.
Take a left into the main parking lot here.
