Covenant Hospice takes part in National Healthcare Decision

Covenant Hospice will be taking part in the inaugural National Healthcare Decision Day set for Wednesday, April 16. On this day, throughout the country, healthcare providers, professionals, chaplains, attorneys and others will participate in a massive effort to highlight the importance of advance healthcare decision-making.

To facilitate this process, initiative organizers will provide clear, concise and consistent information and tools for the public to complete written advance directives, commonly known as a living will.

Although several states have engaged in advance directive awareness events, only a small minority of Americans has their wishes in writing. National Healthcare Decision Day addresses this issue by focusing attention on advance healthcare planning from a variety of directions simultaneously. For more information about this initiative, please visit www.nationalhealthcaredecisionday.org or www.covenanthospice.org.

Celebrating 25 years of keeping the promise, Covenant Hospice is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to providing comprehensive, compassionate services to patients and loved ones during times of life-limiting illnesses. The focus of Covenant Hospice is to enable its patients to live as fully and comfortably as possible, to provide dignified palliative care, to assist patients’ loved ones in coping with end-of-life issues and the eventual death of the patient, and to improve care for all patients at the end of their lives by example and education.