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Healthcare Decisions Day - Information for Providers

Healthcare Decisions Day 2010

Further Information for Providers

Please confirm your participation in this year's Healthcare Decisions Day. (This link will take you off of the VSB site to SurveyMonkey.com.)

Thank you for participating in Advance Directives Day. Below you will find a collection of documents for your own use and as handouts for your patients/residents.

Understanding and Implementing Virginia’s Revised Health Care Decisions Act on the Institute on Aging website

Watch the 2009 video cast:

 

Educational presentation on Advance Directives by Nathan Kottkamp, with McGuireWoods, LLC, Chair, Committee to Establish Virginia Advance Directives Day. Click here for the 2006 presentation. (MP3)

Virginia Advance Directive Form (pdf)*

Virginia Advance Directive Form (Large Print) (pdf)*

Advance Directives Primer (pdf)*

Advance Directives Checklist (pdf)*

Advance Directives Day Handout (pdf)*

Health Care Decisions Act Summary (pdf)*

Your Right to Decide (pdf)*

Advance Directive Tool Kit (pdf)*

Participant Survey (pdf)*

View the October 2006 issue of the ABA Health Law Section's The Health Lawyer featuring an article on Virginia's 2006 Advance Directives Day (pdf)*

View the June 2009 article published in Virginia Lawyers Weekly entitled "Law Revised to Enhance Health Care Decision-Making Rights"

 

Virginia Healthcare Decisions Day is being organized by the Health Law Section of the Virginia State Bar in conjunction with the Virginia Hospital & Healthcare Association, Virginia Health Care Association, Virginia Association of Nonprofit Homes for the Aging, Virginia Association for Hospices, Health Law Section of the Virginia Bar Association, Senior Lawyers Conference of the Virginia State Bar, Medical Society of Virginia, Richmond Academy of Medicine, Virginia Department for the Aging, Virginia Nurses Association, Virginia Association of Free Clinics, the Trusts and Estates Section of the Virginia State Bar and Virginia Adult Day Services Association.

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Updated: December 9, 2009