April 16 has been designated National Healthcare Decisions Day!  The National Healthcare Decisions Day Initiative is a collaborative effort of national, state and community organizations committed to ensuring that all adults with decision-making capacity in the United States have the information and opportunity to communicate and document their healthcare decisions.  The objectives of NHDD are to provide much-needed information to the public, 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 about advance healthcare planning to their patients.

The theme for this year’s NHDD is “It always seems too early, until it’s too late.”  Central Alabama HPNA encourages all healthcare workers to complete their own advance directive so that we may be better equipped to answer questions and assist patients in completing their advance directive.  

Advance directive information is available at:

https://www.nhdd.org/state-specific-resources/  

https://advancingexpertcare.org/acp