title: ED targets end-of-life patients.
abstract: The new Life-Sustaining Management and Alternative (LSMA) services program in the ED at St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center in Paterson, NJ, is designed to offer patients with life-limiting disease greater control over their care choices and also help them contact services such as hospice if they are needed. Two ED physicians and one nurse are on call 24/7 for consulting referrals from ED physicians. The consultants meet with the patient and their family to review the case and present alternatives. The program shifts the traditional ED focus of curing to one of caring.
mesh_terms: D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital; D009515:New Jersey; D019982:Organizational Case Studies; D019452:Terminally Ill