Helping You Help Our Patients

Ascertaining and understanding a patient’s wishes is an important component of high-quality care. Clinicians should always ensure patients receive care that aligns with their values and goals. With the new reality of the COVID-19 pandemic, the importance of providing goal-concordant care has become heightened. Now more than ever, it is crucial for people to have these personal and difficult conversations with their clinicians and families and to make decisions prior to the possible development of serious acute illness.

As medical providers, the types of conversation you may have with your patient about health care goals and wishes will vary based on your patients’ current condition and location of care. 

The palliative and geriatric teams along with medicine leadership at Inova have compiled this list of resources which can help you guide your patients in expressing their wishes and putting them in writing in every medical setting.