Saint Alphonsus offers advance directive guidance on National Healthcare Decisions Day
April 12, 2016Tags: Year 2016
Saint Alphonsus offers advance directive
guidance on National Healthcare Decisions Day
WHAT: National Healthcare Decisions Day is devoted to ensuring that all adults with decision-making capacity have the information and opportunity to communicate and document their healthcare decisions. Saint Alphonsus will host an event to provide much-needed information to the public regarding advance directives and advance care planning. The informational sessions aim to reduce the number of tragedies that occur when a person’s wishes are unknown, and improve the ability of healthcare facilities and providers to offer informed and thoughtful guidance to their patients.
WHO: Media, Saint Alphonsus staff, and the public are invited to attend a free informational session on advance directives and healthcare decisions, including guidance through completing Idaho state forms and personal advance directives. Interviews with an advance directive and advance care planning expert will be available upon request. Please contact in advance to confirm interviews.
WHEN: April 15th and 16th, 2016 from 11:00a – 2:30p each day.
WHERE: Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center
Coughlin Conference Room #1
1055 N. Curtis Rd.
Boise, Idaho 83706
About Saint Alphonsus Health System
As a faith-based Catholic ministry and not-for-profit health system, Saint Alphonsus Health System reinvests in the communities we serve, through charity care and other benefits. Our goal is to improve the health and well-being of people by emphasizing care that is patient-centered, physician-led, innovative and community-based. Saint Alphonsus Health System serves the people of southwestern Idaho, eastern Oregon and northern Nevada through these facilities: Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center - Boise, ID; Saint Alphonsus Medical Center – Nampa, ID; Saint Alphonsus Medical Center – Ontario, OR; Saint Alphonsus Medical Center – Baker City, OR; and, Saint Alphonsus Medical Group with primary and specialty care providers at over 60 clinic locations, all of which are members of the Saint Alphonsus Health Alliance, a network of over 1900 employed and independent providers. Saint Alphonsus is a proud affiliate of Trinity Health, one of the largest multi-institutional Catholic health care delivery systems in the nation. Trinity Health serves people and communities in 21 states from coast to coast with 88 hospitals and 126 continuing care facilities, home health and hospice programs, and PACE center locations that provide more than 2.5 million visits annually. To find out more go to: www.saintalphonsus.org