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Advance care planning: community partners

Welcome to the Spectrum Health Advance Care Planning (ACP) page for community health professionals.

If you are employed outside of Spectrum Heath, we have developed educational videos, tip sheets, standard work documents and FAQs to support your efforts to help others complete Advance Care Planning information.

This information can be shared digitally with patients and their families, and others who are supporting them through this process.

We appreciate your help in documenting these goals and values so we can partner with you and them for health care decisions.

Videos, documents and frequently asked questions

Educational videos

1. Demonstration of the Spectrum Health digital Advance Care Planning (ACP) tool.

2. How to create a Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care or Treatment Preferences form using the Digital Advance Care Planning (ACP) Tool

3. How to execute an Out of Hospital Do Not Resuscitate order using the Digital Advance Care Planning (ACP) Tool

4. How to void or remove an Advance Care Planning document in the Digital Advance Care Planning (ACP) Tool

Tip sheets

ACP Tool – Provider

ACP Tool – Clinical

ACP Tool – Clerical

Standard Work Documents

How to execute an out of hospital do not resuscitate order using the digital ACP tool

How to complete an advocate acceptance form using the digital ACP tool

How to void or remove a document in the digital ACP tool

How can I gain access to the Spectrum Health ACP tool?

Go to our advance care planning request form to request access to the tool. Your organization will need to appoint an Organization Administrator to manage the users at the organization. If your organization already has an Organization Administrator, request that they add you as a new user. If you don’t know who your Organization Administrator is, email the Spectrum Health Advance Care Planning department.

Who should I focus on for ACP?

All patients over the age of 18 should complete ACP, however, to begin, you may want to focus on certain high risk patient populations.

Does everyone have the same functionality in the Spectrum Health ACP tool?

No, there are 4 distinct roles within the tool. Your Organization Administrator will determine your role. All roles have the ability to void documents due to changes in patient's wishes.

Signer - This role is for physicians only. As a signer, you have the ability to create, resume and complete medical orders and documents.

Preparer - As a preparer, you have the ability to create and resume documents, however, you do not have the ability to complete the medical orders. The form will need to be passed to a user with Signing privileges to complete.

Uploader – This role is for the Spectrum Health Health Information Management (HIM) team only. In other words, no Community Portal user should be given this access. As an uploader, they have the ability to upload paper scanned documents into the Spectrum Health ACP tool. If you have a paper ACP document you would like scanned into the Spectrum Health ACP tool, please fax it to 616.391.8965 The HIM team will perform a quality check on the document and if it passes, the document will be uploaded into the tool and can be viewed as a PDF.

Viewer - As a viewer, you have access to view current and historical documents.

What if I accidentally lock myself out of my account?

The organization administrator who manages the users at your organization can reset your password for you.

Who will have access to the information in the Spectrum Health ACP tool?

Anyone who has log in access to the Spectrum Health ACP tool can view the information. This information is also available to any user through the use of Epic Care Everywhere.

How can individuals access their information in the Spectrum Health ACP tool?

Individuals can log in at any time to view and share the information created in the Spectrum Health ACP tool.

How can individuals share the information in the Spectrum Health ACP tool with their family/loved ones?

Individuals can log in at any time to create their ‘My Shared Circle.’ This will allow those in their Circle to view their advance care planning information.

Who do I contact if I need support?

Spectrum Health Advance Care Planning
665 Seward Ave. NW
Grand Rapids, MI 49504
Phone 616.774.7615 advancecareplanning@corewellhealth.org

I really like using this tool for my patients. How can I use this tool for myself and my loved ones?

Go to our advance care planning request form to request access to the tool for individual use.

Advance Care Planning

Community Partners: Log in to your Advance Care Planning Account