Health Care Decisions. Under the 2023 UHCDA, health care means care or treatment or a service or procedure to maintain, monitor, diagnose, or otherwise affect an individual’s physical or mental ...

For me to not do her abortion, for me to refer her out of state, for me to tell a pregnant person to get in their car and ...

To make and effect health care decisions in accordance with a patient’s best interest, taking into consideration the patient’s personal values and wishes to the extent that these are known. To ...

Challenges health care decision-makers face. Most caregivers are women, and in many instances, they’re asked to take a forward-looking view on potential health care decisions that have an impact ...

Living wills, health care powers of attorney and other advance directives are written, legal instructions regarding your preferences for medical care if you are unable to make decisions for yourself.

A healthcare proxy takes effect when a doctor determines that the person cannot make their own healthcare decisions. At that point, the person’s healthcare representative steps in.

Started in 2008, National Healthcare Decisions Day was founded to emphasize the significance of advance care planning and to empower people to make informed decisions about their healthcare.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – National Healthcare Decisions Week kicks off on April 14, 2025, with a nationwide effort to raise awareness about the importance of advance healthcare decision-making.

A health care durable power of attorney has a broader scope than a living will, because it will cover health care decision-making in all situations when you cannot make or communicate your own ...

Mark your calendar for National Health Care Decisions Day—April 16, 2016—and plan to write out or update your personal wishes for your end of life care.

Many health care consumers face a similar dilemma: We want our doctors to make critical health care decisions and provide us with the best quality care, but we also increasingly want to be able to ...

When did our private health care decisions start to belong to the government? Amendment 4 hands us back the power to make our own reproductive decisions. Katie Rhodes. Fort Myers News-Press.