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Making Your Wishes Known
The Federal Patient Self-Determination Act requires hospitals to ask all admitted patients if they have an Advance Directive, such as a Living Will or Durable Power of Attorney that would affect decisions regarding their medical treatment. If you would like more information about this federal law or the Virginia Natural Death Act, please ask your nurse for a free booklet that answers most commonly asked questions about Advance Directives.
No one knows what the future holds. Sometimes you can become so ill, so quickly that it is not possible to communicate your healthcare and treatment choices. That's why clarifying your health and treatment choices through an "Advance Directive" document is so important.
Advance Directives are written documents such as Living Wills, Durable Power of Attorney for healthcare and organ donation requests that outline your healthcare wishes if you are no longer capable of making those wishes known.
Your Advance Directives can be changed whenever you like, as long as you are capable of doing so. At Chesapeake Regional, we understand that preparing an Advance Directive can be confusing. Our highly trained in-house Advance Directive professionals are here to help.
Find out more about Advance Directives
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