Tuesday is National Healthcare Decisions Day, a day to educate and empower you about advanced care planning. But what are advance directives and are they really necessary? Advanced Directives are a ...

Do you have an advance medical directive? Saturday was the 6th annual Virginia Healthcare Decisions Day is designed to raise public awareness of the need to plan ahead for healthcare decisions related ...

GRAND FORKS -- When someone is hospitalized with a terminal illness, arguments about the right course can spark discontent among family members. Surely, patients would not want their relatives ...

In early October, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued draft revised guidance to surveyors on the responsibility of SNFs to have policies and procedures, and to properly ...

FARGO — Deb Pender always thought that having an advance directive, also known as a living will, was a good idea, but she had never gotten around to it. That is until this past January, when Pender, ...

Over the past few years, I’ve been taking care of future planning documentation to help make things easier for my adult children when I am no longer able. I have completed a will, financial and legal ...

When it comes to health care, everyone deserves to make decisions that align with their wishes and values. However, sometimes circumstances take that opportunity away before someone has a chance to ...

BRATTLEBORO — Brattleboro Area Hospice's Taking Steps Brattleboro (TSB) program will host a Zoom Advance Care Planning/Advance Directive Question and Answer Information session on Wednesday, Aug. 26, ...

Saturday was the 6th annual Virginia Healthcare Decisions Day is designed to raise public awareness of the need to plan ahead for healthcare decisions related to end of life care and medical ...