Your Care, Your Choice - Liberty at the End of Life: DMOST

"Your Care, Your Choice - Liberty at the End of Life" is an education forum presented by a broad legal, medical, social service, and faith-based leadership group who has come together to implement a new Delaware Medical Orders for Scope of Treatment (DMOST) plan for Delawareans to use at the end of life.



10:30 -10:50 am

Welcome, Program Overview

• Susan DelPesco, JD (Superior Court Judge (retired), Wilmington, DE)

10:50 am - 11:45 am

Developing a Successful State MOST Program:  Advice from the Field

• David Barile, MD (Executive Director of New Jersey goals of Care, and Medical Director of Acute Care for the Elderly and of Palliative Medicine Services at the University of Princeton Princeton, NJ)

11:45 am- 12:30 pm

Evolution of Advance Directives up to POLST (Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment, and the Need for DMOST

• Charles Sabatino, JD (Director, ABA Commission on Law and Aging, Washington, DC)

12:30 -1:15 pm

LUNCH (provided)



1:15 - 2:00 pm

Ethical Considerations, the Key Elements of an End-of-Life Medical Order, Explaining the need for DMOST in Delaware, including stories from Christiana Care and SNF's.

• John Goodill, MD (Chief of Christiana Care Health System's Pain and Palliative Care Section, Newark, DE)

2:00 -2:10 pm

BREAK



2:15 -3:00 pm

The Progress of POLST Programs Across the Nation, Litigation Arising From Failure to Respect Patients' Rights

• Thaddeus Pope, JD, PhD (Director of the Health Law Institute at Hamline University Minneapolis, MN)

3:00—4:00 pm

DMOST - the Proposed Statute

• Susan DelPesco, JD, (Superior Court Judge (retired), Wilmington, DE)