POST records your wishes for medical treatment in your current state of health. Once initial medical treatment is begun and the risks and benefits of further therapy are clear, your treatment wishes may …
A copy, facsimile, or electronic version of a completed POST form is considered to be legal. The execution of a POST form is always voluntary and is for a person with an advanced illness. The …
POST must be signed by a physician or, at discharge or transfer from a hospital or long term care facility, by a nurse practitioner (NP), clinical nurse specialist (CNS), or physician assistant (PA).
A POST form is only for those already experiencing advanced disease that is life limiting or terminal. The POST does specifically outline treatments that a person would like to receive or not receive.
POST and advance directives work together in advance care planning to ensure the patient’s wishes are followed. The POST form is not intended to replace an advance directive, but can be used for …
The POST form documents patients’ preferences about a range of treatment options, including resuscitation, intubation, hospitalization, antibiotics, and feeding tubes.
The firm of McKim, Mead & White designed the New York General Post Office, which opened to the public on Labor Day in 1914. One of the firm's architects, William Mitchell Kendall, was the son of a …