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Healthcare Decisions Day - Information for Providers

Healthcare Decisions Day 2011

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 Healthcare Decisions 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 Healthcare 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)

2010 Virginia Advance Directive Form (pdf posted 04/12/2010)*

2010 Virginia Advance Directive Form, Large Print (pdf posted 04/12/2010)*

2010 Virginia Advance Directive Form with Special Provisions for Mental Health Conditions (pdf posted 04/12/2010)*

2010 Virginia Advance Directive Form with Special Provisions for Mental Health Conditions, Large Print (pdf posted 04/12/2010)*

2010 Virginia Advance Directive Supplement for Mental Health Conditions (pdf posted 04/12/2010)*

2010 Virginia Advance Directive Supplement for Mental Health Conditions, Large Print (pdf posted 04/12/2010)*

Advance Directives Primer (pdf)*

Advance Directives Checklist (pdf)*

Advance Directives Day Handout (pdf)*

Healthcare Decisions Act Summary (pdf)*

Your Right to Decide (pdf)*

Advance Directive Tool Kit (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 Healthcare Decision-Making Rights"

 

National and Virginia Healthcare Decisions Day are 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: July 20, 2010