WHO?
Nicole LaBombard, PCW Program Coordinator - Project Leader
Bill Helm, PCW Executive Committee Member - Project Champion & Facilitator
Jim Putnam, PCW Executive Committee Member - Project Champion
Ruth Bleyer, PCW Member - Community Champion & Facilitator
Karen Borgstrom, PCW Director - Project Champion & Facilitator
Jane Masters, PCW Member - Facilitator
Ellen Thompson, Lyme Parish Nurse - Facilitator
Lynn Smith, Lyme Parish Nurse - Facilitator
Janice Cundey, New London Parish Nurse - Community Champion
...and all of you!
We need your help and participation to make our pilot a success.
WHERE?
For the first six months of the pilot (July 1st - December 31st), we will be focusing our efforts in the Upper Valley and in the Lake Sunapee Region, where our trained facilitators are located.
As we continue to train more facilitators in different locations, we will be able scale up our work and bring the conversation to more NH and VT towns.
WHAT?
We will refine our workflow as we go along, but our goal is to invite individuals to have a conversation with a trained facilitator, help them fill out their Advance Directive, and ensure it is stored safely in their medical record (whether they are patients of Dartmouth-Hitchcock, or another health care system).
We will invite PCW members to sign-up for conversations through emails like this one, social media, direct mailing, and more.... starting now!
We have an easy sign-up form on our website. Once received, a facilitator will be in touch with you to schedule a time to begin your conversation.
We are lucky to be working with Parish Nurses in both Lyme and New London. For these towns, the Parish Nurses will have conversations with their community members, and PCW will support them in their outreach, execution, and secure storage of the document in Medical Records.