(A) developing and implementing programs 
and initiatives to train and educate individuals; 
(B) providing training and continuing edu-
cation to individuals who will provide advance 
care planning services or palliative care in the 
hospital, hospice, home, community, and long- 
term care settings; and 
(C) developing curricula or teaching mate-
rials related to advance care planning or pallia-
tive care in such settings. 
(b) ESTABLISHMENT AND MAINTENANCE OF WEB- 
AND TELEPHONE-BASED RESOURCES.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary may award 
grants to public or private entities (including States, 
political subdivisions of States, faith-based organiza-
tions, and religious educational institutions), or a 
consortium of any such entities, to establish and 
maintain an Internet website and telephone hotline 
to disseminate resources developed under subsection 
(a) and materials for faith communities designed by 
the Department of Health and Human Services Cen-
ter for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. 
(2) ABILITY TO SUSTAIN ACTIVITIES.—In deter-
mining whether to award a grant under paragraph 
(1), the Secretary shall take into account the ability 
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of an entity to sustain the activities described in 
paragraph (1) beyond the initial grant period. 
(c) NATIONAL PUBLIC EDUCATION CAMPAIGN.—The 
Secretary may award grants to public or private entities 
(including States, political subdivisions of States, faith- 
based organizations, and religious educational institu-
tions) to conduct a national public education campaign to 
raise public awareness of advance care planning and ad-
vanced illness care, including the availability of the re-
sources created under this section. 
(d) ORDERS FOR LIFE-SUSTAINING TREATMENT.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary may award 
grants to eligible entities for the purposes of car-
rying out the activities under paragraph (2). 
(2) AUTHORIZED ACTIVITIES.—Activities fund-
ed through a grant under this section for an area 
may include— 
(A) establishing and operating a National 
Resource Center on POLST Programs to pro-
vide— 
(i) technical assistance and profes-
sional training to programs for orders for 
life-sustaining treatment; 
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(ii) analysis and dissemination of best 
practices in implementing program for or-
ders for life-sustaining treatment; 
(iii) voluntary standards for the estab-
lishment and operation of program for or-
ders for life-sustaining treatment; and 
(iv) compilations and summaries of 
recently conducted research and other re-
sources relevant to program for orders for 
life-sustaining treatment; 
(B) developing such a program for the 
area that includes hospitals, home care, hospice, 
long-term care, community and assisted living 
residences, skilled nursing facilities, and emer-
gency medical services within a State; and 
(C) expanding an existing program for or-
ders regarding life-sustaining treatment to serve 
more patients or enhance the quality of serv-
ices, including educational services for patients 
and patients’ families, training of health care 
professionals, or establishing an orders for life- 
sustaining treatment registry. 
(3) DEFINITIONS.—In this subsection— 
(A) the term ‘‘eligible entity’’ means— 
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(i) an academic medical center, a 
medical school, a State health department, 
a State medical association, a multistate 
task force, a hospital, or a health system 
capable of administering a program for 
physician orders regarding life-sustaining 
treatment for a State; or 
(ii) any other health care agency or 
entity as the Secretary determines appro-
priate; and 
(B) the term ‘‘program for orders for life- 
sustaining treatment’’ means a program that, 
regardless of its name— 
(i) implements a clinical process de-
signed to facilitate shared, informed med-
ical decisionmaking and communication be-
tween health care professionals and pa-
tients with serious, progressive illness or 
frailty and results in a set of medical or-
ders that— 
(I) are consistent with the na-
tional standard as reflected by the 
National 
POLST 
Paradigm, 
rep-
resenting health care providers, orga-
nizations, and stakeholders; 
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(II) are portable and honored 
across care settings; and 
(III) address key medical deci-
sions consistent with the patient’s 
goals of care; and 
(ii) is guided by a coalition of stake-
holders, such as patient advocacy groups 
and representatives from across the con-
tinuum of health care services, disability 
rights advocates, senior advocates, emer-
gency medical services, long-term care, 
medical 
associations, 
hospitals, 
home 
health, hospice, palliative care, nursing as-
sociations, the State agency responsible for 
senior and disability services, faith-based 
groups, and the State department of 
health. 
(e) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—There are authorized to be 
appropriated to the Secretary, for purposes of 
awarding grants under this section, $50,000,000 for 
the period of fiscal years 2018 through 2022. 
(2) LIMITATION.—None of the funds appro-
priated under paragraph (1) shall be used to— 
(A) develop a model advance directive; 
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