Story sounds fishy to me....no “POLST’s” are done in New York area hospitals? When you arrive at a hospital in serious condition and have an advance medical directive the medical staff/physician fill-in a POLST while talking with the spouse/relatives about the plan of care and they sign it. Usually results in “comfort care” only...made comfortable with pain meds and basic care...(no monitors/CPR/trachea tubes/resuscitation, etc.). Just went thru this with my Dad over the Christmas season here in a CA rural hospital. Small hospital didn’t have a “palliative care team”, but did have a “comfort care” room for family to stay with the patient overnight (shower/bathroom/kitchenette/fold out sleeping couch available). The POLST is “physician’s orders” which the hospital staff follows.