Our Mission
We are Texas Talks, a statewide 501(c)3 charitable organization led by doctors, nurses, social workers, faith leaders, and patient advocates who are dedicated to patients and the unique needs of patients with serious, advancing illnesses. We advocate for and educate about meaningful conversations between patients, the people that matter to them and their caregivers that are documented by advance care plans and when appropriate, POLST, a portable medical order set.
Our Objectives
- Growing the use of conversational methods between patients, families and their doctors to improve care for the seriously ill.
- Serving as the clearinghouse for shared decision-making conversations and processes to ensure they happen for seriously ill patients.
- Promoting digital-based advance care planning, document creation, portability and retrieval.
- Advancing the use of a common POLST document in Texas as a best practice.
-Following the experience of other states through our membership and participation in the National POLST program.
We believe that when meaningful, shared decision-making conversations become a normal part of planning for our lives today and in the future, it is much more likely that the choices for care a patient does and does not want can be honored.
We are Texas Talks, a statewide 501(c)3 charitable organization led by doctors, nurses, social workers, faith leaders, and patient advocates who are dedicated to patients and the unique needs of patients with serious, advancing illnesses. We advocate for and educate about meaningful conversations between patients, the people that matter to them and their caregivers that are documented by advance care plans and when appropriate, POLST, a portable medical order set.
We work to increase the quality shared decision making conversations between patients and their care giving teams. This allows a portable medical order set to follow a patient thru all the sites of care.
Gifts will enable pilots with clinicians and organization to do this work.
Texas Talks is committed to promoting equality and improving the health and well-being of all persons living with serious illness or advanced frailty, their friends and loved ones, and the health care professionals caring for them, regardless of race, color, religion, national origin or citizenship status, geography, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, age or socioeconomic status.
Organization name
Texas Talks Coalition
Causes
Community Improvement, Health Care, Public Safety
Operating Budget
Less than $100,000
Counties Served
Wise, Tarrant, Somervell, Rockwall, Parker, Palo Pinto, Navarro, Montague, Kaufman, Johnson, Hunt, Hood, Grayson, Fannin, Erath, Ellis, Denton, Dallas, Cooke, Collin
Address
3101 Wild Plum Dr