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Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) - www.ahrq.gov
AHRQ's mission includes translating research findings into better patient care and providing policymakers and other health care leaders with information needed to make critical health care decisions.

Nevada PricePoint - www.nvpricepoint.net
Publishes Nevada hospital-specific information about services and charges.

Regional Health Improvement Collaboratives:
Essential Elements for Successful Healthcare Reform -
Describes the work Collaboratives across the country are doing in performance measurement, payment and delivery system reform, training and assistance for providers to help improve performance, and patient education and engagement. It also provides detailed profiles on eleven Collaboratives and their leaders.

Value-Driven Health Care Home - www.hhs.gov/valuedriven
Provides an overview of the national value-driven health care initiative.

POLST, Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment
POLST is a physician order that is recognized throughout the medical system that allows a patient’s wishes to be known and health care providers to honor wishes for end-of-life care. POLST is a brightly colored document that is signed by both the physician and the patient and transfers with the patient from care setting to care setting. There are Initiatives underway to implement POLST in Nevada and Utah. If you are interested in being part of this effort, please contact your HealthInsight liaison.

Five Wishes - Five Wishes Online - http://www.agingwithdignity.org/five-wishes.php
Five Wishes helps to bridge the medical and the legal worlds of advance care planning in a document that is easy for most people to use and understand. It speaks to all of the person’s concerns, not just the medical and legal ones. Matters of comfort, dignity, pain management, personal and spiritual issues, family reconciliation and memorial matters are all addressed. It meets the legal requirements and has been called the closest thing available to a national advance directive.

Living Will Lock Box - www.livingwilllockbox.com
The Nevada Living Will Lockbox ensures that Nevadans voices areheard when end of life issues arise.A declaration governing the withholding or withdrawal of life sustaining care, A Durable Power of Attorney of Healthcare Decision, and Do-not- Resuscitate (DNR) order can be stored via the web.