Glossary

ACP - Advance Care Planning

AD - Advance Directive

ALF - Assisted Living Facility

CMO - Comfort Measures Only

CPR - Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation

DND - Do Not Disturb

DNH - Do Not Hospitalize

DNI - Do Not Intubate

DNR - Do Not Resuscitate

DPOA - Durable Power of Attorney

ED - Emergency Department

EMS - Emergency Medical Services

EOL - End-of-Life

EOLC - End-of-Life Care

GIP - General Inpatient Care

HCP - Health Care Proxy

HPC - Hospice and Palliative Care

LTC - Long-Term Care

LOS - Length of Stay

MOLST - Medical Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment

NH - Nursing Home

OPO - Organ Procurement Organization

PEG - Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy

PPE - Personal Protective Equipment

POC - Plan of Care

POLST - Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment

SNF - Skilled Nursing Facility

SOC - Start of Care

TPN - Total Parenteral Nutrition

VSED - Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking