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Making Your Healthcare Wishes and Medical Choices Known

WEBAfter engaging in advance care planning and completing your healthcare documents, you want to be sure that doctors, EMTs, and your inner circle know what …

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Patient Health Care Rights: Your Right to Make Choices

WEBAvailable in: Español. The Patient Self-Determination Act (PSDA) is a law that was passed in 1990. The PSDA reaffirms the common-law right of self-determination as guaranteed …

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Portable Medical Orders (POLSTs) vs Advance Directives

WEBPOLST is for people who are seriously ill or have advanced frailty. If you are healthy, an advance directive is for you. POLST forms and advance directives are both parts of …

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Skilled Nursing Facilities: What They Are & How to Pay for Care

WEBThere are a variety of other rules and regulations, so it helps to read the pamphlet carefully. Medicare only pays the entire cost of skilled nursing care for 20 days; thereafter, a …

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Choosing a Health Care Agent, Surrogate or Proxy

WEBChoosing a Healthcare Agent. A healthcare agent is also known as a surrogate or proxy and is someone you designate and empower to make medical decisions for you if, at …

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Types of Care: What is Curative or Therapeutic Care

WEBCurative or Therapeutic Care. Curative or therapeutic care refers in part to treatments and therapies provided to a patient with the goal of curing an illness or condition. The terms …

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Types of Care: What is Comfort Care

WEBComfort care is a part of hospice care, but hospice care is much more. Hospice care is an interdisciplinary team-oriented approach to expert medical care, pain management, and …

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Advance Directive Form for Florida

WEBAn advance directive is a legally binding document that gives instructions for your healthcare in the event that you are no longer able to make or communicate those …

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Types of Care: What is Hospice Care

WEBHospice is a type of health care that focuses on the relief of a terminally ill patient’s distress and symptoms and attending to their emotional and spiritual needs during the final …

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Advance Directive Form for Puerto Rico

WEBAn advance directive is a legally binding document that gives instructions for your healthcare in the event that you are no longer able to make or communicate those …

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DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

WEBThis packet contains a legal document, a District of Columbia Advance Health Care Directive, that protects your right to refuse medical treatment you do not want, or to …

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