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• 'Advance Directive' Workshop Thursday

MONTEBELLO -- Beverly Hospital is offering "Advance Directive" from 10:30 a.m. to noon Thursday in the hospital's basement rooms, 309 W. Beverly Blvd. Learn about Advance Directives, the legal document that allows individuals to express healthcare concerns.

• Whittier Daily News
• March 28, 2012

• An 'Advance Directive' for Patient Privacy

TUCSON, Ariz., Dec. 7, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- If you go to a hospital, you will probably be asked, aggressively, about your advance directive to withhold or withdraw treatment. But you will not be asked--or probably allowed--to sign a statement to protect your confidentiality. While you are in the hospital, your record will probably be scrutinized by a variety of "reviewers" you will never know about. Their job is not to protect you, but to watch out for the hospital's bottom line.

• U.S. Newswire
• December 07, 2010

• Advance Directive Registry Starts Health

By Elizabeth Simpson The Virginian-Pilot

• The Virginian-Pilot and The Ledger-Star, Norfolk, VA
• December 08, 2011

• The Advance Health Care Directive

Under California law, as long as you are able to give informed consent concerning your health care decisions, you may of course make your own decisions. The problem arises when you lack the capacity to understand the nature and consequences of a particular decision or are unable to communicate your decision. If you lack capacity to make decisions for yourself, decision-making authority is given in the following order of priority: (1) an agent you verbally designated during a hospitalization; (2) an agent you designated in an Advance Health Care Directive; (3) a court-appointed conservator; or (4) a close family member. In most circumstances, the decisionmaking authority rests with a close family member because advance planning has not been done and the circumstances do not warrant court...

• Sentinel; Los Angeles, Calif.
• October 15, 2009

• The current state of advance directive law in Ohio: more protective of provider liability than patient rights.

I. INTRODUCTION II. THE GROWING NEED FOR ADVANCE DIRECTIVES A. The Misuse and Fear of Futile Medical Treatments Have Increased the Need for Written Ad...

• Journal of Law and Health
• Vol. 19 Nbr. 2, June 2004

• Local Ethicist: Advance Directives Keep Patients in Charge of Their Care

Hammes said the provision simply required the federal government to reasonably reimburse physicians for having discussions about advance directives, living wills and other ways for patients to stipulate what medical care they want at the end of life. HOW TO GET AN ADVANCE DIRECTIVE People need to discuss end-of-life issues with family members and prepare an advance directive to make sure their voice is heard and understood, says Nickijo Hager, Franciscan Skemp vice president of mission and organizational development.

• La Crosse Tribune
• October 15, 2009

• Advance Care Directive Topic of Vna Program in Claremont

CLAREMONT - No one likes talking about dying, but it really should be a part of living. Having the conversation with family members, no matter how difficult, can make all the difference in the world.

• Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
• April 13, 2013

• 32 CFR Appendix D to Part 153 - Military Advance Medical Directive

• Code of Federal Regulations - Title 32: National Defense

• The Advance Health Care Directive - Part Ii

One of the most distressing situations a family has to face is that of making medical decisions concerning whether to withhold or withdraw life support for a loved one. I know of a situation in which brothers and sisters, holding vigil outside their mother's intensive care hospital room, spent hours heatedly arguing about what medical course of action to take rather than comforting one another. Since their mother had not expressed her wishes before she had a massive heart attack, the family was left to make the decision without the benefit of her input. Those voting to keep their mother on life support stated that they couldn't bear the guilt associated with "pulling the plug." Those voting to let their mother "pass on in peace" by disconnecting the life support felt it was the only hum...

• Sentinel; Los Angeles, Calif.
• October 15, 2009

• Was patient's advance directive 'concealed' and ignored?

PASCENTIA MCDONALD, AGE 73, WAS A PATIENT AT USC UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL. Her attending physicians were Drs. Douglas Hood, Michael Leke, and Fred Weaver (...

• Medical Law's Regan Report
• Vol. 41 Nbr. 8, August 2008