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Follow on Google News | TakeCHARGE Campaign Launches Step 1 - Understand and Complete Your Advance DirectivesSafe health care awareness campaign focuses first on ensuring your treatment choices are respected.
By: Pulse CPSEA Those who have prepared by naming a health care proxy or surrogate, or making a "living will" know that their wishes about their care will be respected. Those who haven't prepared? Well, their treatment decisions are entirely up to others. So, in April 2021, the TakeCHARGE Campaign focuses on #1 of its "5 Steps to Safer Health Care": Understand and Complete Your Advance Directives. What are "advance directives"? This is a catch-all term for several kinds of documents you can complete that define and protect your wishes about treatment, if you are unable to communicate. Some, like the "healthcare proxy" designate someone to make decisions on your behalf; others, such as a "living will", specify your wishes when it comes to, for example, life-support, or organ donation. Why does this matter? Take the example of Pat S., a 34-year-old father of two, who struggled with COVID-19 at home, but in the end found himself in the intensive care unit on a ventilator. Knowing that he was young and healthy, he had not prepared any advance directives, so here he was, unable to communicate about potentially life-and-death decisions. In a Time of Crisis Long-time patient advocate Ilene Corina, president of Pulse Center for Patient Safety, Education & Advocacy (http://pulsecenterforpatientsafety.org/
You can learn more about the TakeCHARGE Step 1 here (https://takecharge.care/ For interviews or more information, please call (516) 579-4711. End
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