National Healthcare Decisions Day will be April 16, 2008

The National Healthcare Decisions Day (NHDD) Initiative is acollaborative effort of national, state and community organizationscommitted to ensuring that all adults with decision-making capacity inthe United States have the infomation and opportunity to communicateand document their healthcare decisions.  For more information, visit http://www.nationalhealthcaredecisionsday.org/

The following organizations have already signed on to the April 16 event: 

• AARP
• Administration on Aging
• Aging with Dignity
• American Association of Critical-Care Nurses
• American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging
• American Healthcare Association
• American Health Decisions
• American Health Lawyers Association
• American Hospital Association
• American Medical Directors Association
• American Nurses Association
• Association of Professional Chaplains
• American Society of Directors of Volunteer Services
• Catholic Health Association of the United States
• Center for Elder Justice and Policy at William Mitchell College of Law
• Center for Medicare Advocacy
• Center for Practical Bioethics
• Center for Social Gerontology
• Central Virginia Palliative Care Initiative
• Compassionate Decisions
• Duke Institute on Care at the End of Life
• Federation of American Hospitals
• Financial Planning Association
• Friends of Hospice
• Hospital and Health System Association of Pennsylvania
• Illinois Hospital Association
• Lakeland Regional Medical Center
• Martha Jefferson Hospital
• Montgomery County (MD) Coalition on End-of-Life Care
• McGuire Woods, LLP
• University of Missouri Center for Health Ethics
• National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys
• National Association of Social Workers
• National Association of Directors of Nursing Administration in Long Term Care
• National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization
• National POLST Paradigm Initiative Task Force
• New York Citizens’ Committee on Health Care Decisions
• Online-registries.com
• Oregon Health Decisions
• Palliative Care Partnership of the Roanoke Valley
• Supportive Care Coalition
• The Hastings Center
• The National Association of Catholic Chaplains
• UVA Health System
• Virginia Association for Hospices
• Virginia Association of Nonprofit Homes for the Aging
• Virginia Health Care Association
• Virginia Hospital and Health Care Association

April 15:  Taking care of taxes   April 16:  Taking care of that other inevitable thing….