Hospice at Home Highlights National Healthcare Decisions Day

Hospice at Home, along with other national, state and community organizations, are leading a massive effort to highlight the importance of advance healthcare decision-making.
 
March 24, 2011 - PRLog -- Hospice at Home, along with other national, state and community organizations, are leading a massive effort to highlight the importance of advance healthcare decision-making—an effort that has culminated in the formal designation of April 16, 2011 as National Healthcare Decisions Day (NHDD). As a participating organization, Hospice at Home is providing information and tools for the public to talk about their wishes with family, friends and healthcare providers, and execute written advance directives in accordance with Michigan state laws.

During the month of April, Hospice at Home is welcoming the public to any of its locations in Southwest Michigan for free information about advance care planning and advance directive forms. The Hospice at Home locations are: 4025 Health Park Lane, St. Joseph; 05055 Blue Star Highway, South Haven; 4017 Chamberlain Road, Buchanan; and Lory’s Place, 445 Upton Drive, St. Joseph.

“As a result of National Healthcare Decisions Day, many more people in our community can be expected to have thoughtful conversations about their healthcare decisions and complete reliable advance directives to make their wishes known,” said Terri Dotson, Community Relations Representative, Hospice at Home.  “Fewer families and healthcare providers will have to struggle with making difficult healthcare decisions in the absence of guidance from the patient, and healthcare providers and facilities will be better equipped to address advance healthcare planning issues before a crisis and be better able to honor patient wishes when the time comes to do so.”

Hospice at Home is the non-profit community hospice focusing on the patient and family regardless of the patients' diagnosis, treatment choices, or ability to pay. It provides quality care to those adjusting to living with a serious illness, facing death, anticipating the death of a loved one, or healing their grief after the death of a loved one. Hospice at Home places an emphasis on the emotional, social, and spiritual needs of those who need care and those receiving support services. Serving Berrien, Cass, Van Buren, and Allegan Counties, the care is coordinated by a team of physicians, nurses, hospice aides, social workers, spiritual care counselors, bereavement coordinators, and trained volunteers. Extending this care, Lory’s Place, a bereavement and education center that builds hope and strength for every grieving family, is available to anyone in Southwest Michigan or Northern Indiana.

For more information about National Healthcare Decision Day, please visit www.hospiceathomecares.org  or call Hospice at Home, at (800) HOSPICE.

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Hospice at Home is your non-profit hospice provider for SW Michigan. Offering comfort, dignity, and compassion to the terminally ill through a holistic, non-curative, approach to care, focused on enhancing the lives of patients for their remaining days.
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