CENTER for ETHICS in HEALTH CARE
3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Road UHN-86, Portland, OR 97230  (503) 494-4466  fax: (503) 494-1260  www.ohsu.edu/ethics  ethics@ohsu.edu
POLST Program Innovation
Dear Friends,
Excellent stewardship of the time
and funds that are generously
entrusted to the Center is a very
high priority. Our goal is to be the
very best investment you can
make when donating your time or
your dollars to the Center. In
addition to making the best use of
our resources, we are creating a
forum for statewide health care
ethics leaders to address this
issue at the 22nd Annual Kinsman
Ethics Conference. “Stewardship
in the Age of Automony: Can we
ever say no?” will be held in
Portland, April 19 & 20, 2012.
We are national leaders in-endof-life care and we are well
positioned to lead the way to
further improvements in health
care. To do so we need your
support to build a more stable
financial base for the Ethics
Fellowship and to raise additional
funds to support further the
innovation and development of
the interprofessional curriculum.
Ann Barden (barden@ohsu.edu)
and I welcome the opportunity to
talk with you in more detail about
your specific interests.
We value your unwavering
support of the Center. With all
best wishes and deep thanks.
Susan W. Tolle, MD
Cornelia Hayes Stevens Chair
Director, Center for Ethics in Health
Care
November 2011
Thanks to a generous gift from the Alyce R. Cheatham Family Fund of the
Oregon Community Foundation, Oregon continues to provide leadership and
innovation in the POLST Program. Filming is scheduled next week at
Mirabella and Mary’s Woods for a new video to provide better answers
to such questions as "Who should have a POLST form?" Submission rates to
the Oregon POLST Registry remain consistently high with over 80,000 forms
submitted thus far. As Oregon leads the way, POLST use continues to roll out
across the country. Montana became the 14th endorsed state and another 20
states are in development. Intensive mentorship of five states (Maine,
Louisana, Tennessee, New Hampshire and Idaho) has been launched with
funding from The Retirement Research Foundation. To mentor developing
states, we are partnering with POLST leaders in California, serving as faculty
and co-sponsoring the first National POLST Paradigm Conference in
February, 2012.
Advisory Council—The Next Chapter
As the Center’s programs continue to flourish, and have become an integral
part of OHSU’s expanding interprofessional educational mission, the Advisory
Council is turning its focus to the sustainability and long-term funding needs of
the Center. In order to meet this new development challenge, the Council has
established a Steering Committee charged with developing a 5-year plan to
meet the future financial needs of the Center. Steering Committee members
include Bill Whitsell, Bill Early, Mary Oldshue, Lisa Andrus-Rivera, Barbara
Durkheimer, Susan Tolle, Robert Shook, and Ann Barden. We look forward to
their recommendations.
Madeline Brill Nelson Speaker to Advance Interprofessional Education
Phyllis Beemsterboer and Lynn Jansen co-chair the Teaching
Interprofessional Ethics (TIE) team whose focus is to advance collaborative
educational programs in ethics and professionalism across the undergraduate
clinical schools at OHSU. TIE has invited Judith Buchanan, PhD, DMD, from
the University of Minnesota to spend May 17th consulting with us as the 2012
Madeline Brill Nelson Speaker. She will be speaking on “Interprofessional
Education: Why do it, how to do it, and what role can ethics play?”
Ethics Fellowship Builds Teaching Capacity
OHSU’s new Provost, Jeanette Mladenovic, MD, MBA, is passionate about
enhancing interprofessional education. She views ethics and professionalism
as ideal content for shared curriculum. We need to train more faculty to meet
the rapidly growing demand for interprofessional education. The two year
Fellowship in Interprofessional Health Care Ethics is designed to do exactly
that. The 2011 graduates, Mariann Hyland, JD, MSW, Jennifer S. Needle,
MD, MPH, Catherine A. Salveson, RN, PhD, Lynn F. Shaker, MPH, RN, Mary
Spiering, RN, MN, CNS, and Amy C. Vandenbroucke, JD, bring expertise in
professionalism from the disciplines of medicine, nursing, social work
and law.