New Jersey palliative, hospice, and POLST guidance
New Jersey Department of Health publishes official guidance on palliative care, hospice care, and POLST orders for life-sustaining treatment.
New Jersey · Active · Implementation Jan 21, 2025
What it is
- What changed
- NJDOH's palliative and hospice page describes palliative care as patient- and family-centered care across the continuum of illness and hospice as comfort-focused support for terminal illness, usually at home, with family caregiver support. NJDOH's POLST page explains that the form records life-sustaining-treatment preferences and follows the patient across settings.
- Why it matters
- Caregivers often need to distinguish palliative care, hospice, POLST, and advance directives before a crisis admission or discharge. This row gives the corpus an official New Jersey guidance anchor without turning it into medical or legal advice.
- Who it touches
- Family caregivers, Care providers and plans, People receiving carepeople with serious illness, terminally ill people, family caregivers, patient surrogates, clinicians
- What it does
- Plans, studies, registries or guidance
Sources
Last reviewed Jul 4, 2026. This is information, not legal advice; check the source for the current text.