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Delegates' Resources

Reference Committee A

  1. Establishment of a Pilot Medically-Supervised Injection Facility in MA
  2. Improving Naloxone Access
  3. Access to Medication-Assisted Treatment for Prisoners with Opioid Use Disorders
  4. Needle/Syringe Disposal
  5. Streamlining Human Immunodeficiency Virus Testing of Source Patients Following an Occupational Exposure
  6. Perfluorochemical (PFC) Drinking Water Contamination
  7. Gasoline-Powered Leaf Blowers
  8. Protecting Public Health from Natural Gas Infrastructure in Massachusetts
  9. Service Needs of Frail Elders
  10. Non-Exercise Activity Thermogenesis (NEAT)
  11. Support of Reach Out And Read Literacy Program
  12. Educating Physicians about the Importance of Cervical Screening in Female-to-Male Transgender Patients
  13. Protection of Transgender Individuals’ Right to Use Restroom of Choice
  14. Improving Mental Health at Colleges and Universities for Student Populations
  15. Marketing of Smartphone-Integrated Infant Physiologic Monitors
  16. CPR as a Requirement to Graduate High School
  17. Supporting Repeal of Anti-Camping Ordinance in MA
  18. Maximizing function and Minimizing Disability

Reference Committee B

    1. Supporting Medicaid as a Federal Entitlement Program
    2. Health Care Is a Basic Human Right
    3. Effective Health Care Cost Control
    4. Health Insurance in which Copayments Vary with Clinical Utility, a Value-Based Insurance Design
    5. Nursing Facilities' Doctors and NPs and PAs Should Not Be Forced to Consult MassPAT
    6. Providing for Prescription Drug Donation
    7. Recognition of Out-of-State DNR/Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment (POLST) Forms in Massachusetts
    8. Improving Health Care Proxy Use
    9. Living Will as One of the Several Voices of the Patient
    10. Physician-Rating Websites 
    11. Scope of Practice
    12. Reimbursement for Physician Oversight in Incident to Billing
    13. Supporting an Appeals Process for Out-of-Network Patient Referrals
    14. Hospital Discharge Communications
    15. Stop the Bleed/Save a Life
    16. Telemedicine to Improve Access to Care and Reduce Health Care Disparitie 

Reference Committee C

  1. MMS Annual and Three-Year Strategic Plans
  2. Policy Sunset Process
    (Please indicate the item number from your delegate's handbook and include your comments)
  3. Bullying Policy
  4. Opioids and Substance Use Disorder Policy
  5. Impaired Drivers Policy
    (Policy Sunset Process: Reaffirmed for One Year at A-16 Pending Review)
  6. Advance Directives Policy
    (Policy Sunset Process: Reaffirmed for One Year at A-16 Pending Review)
  7. Physician Call Policy
    (Policy Sunset Process: Reaffirmed for One Year at A-16 Pending Review)
  8. Physician Payment/Capitation Policies
    (Policy Sunset Process: Reaffirmed for One Year at A-16 Pending Review)
  9. The Boston Medical Library is the Library of the Massachusetts Medical Society
  10. Reevaluation of the MMS Voucher Program
  11. MMS Leadership Promotion and Governance
  12. Bylaws Changes *Membership Dues for Calendar Year 2018
    (On speakers’ consent calendar; commenting not open)
    *Delegates-at-Large (on speakers’ consent calendar; commenting not open)
  13. *Membership Dues for Calendar Year 2018
    (On speakers’ consent calendar; commenting not open)
  14. *Delegates-at-Large
    (on speakers’ consent calendar; commenting not open)