March 26, 2021

National Healthcare Decisions Day is April 16

The WSMA is joining other national, state, and community organizations to help bring attention to National Healthcare Decisions Day on April 16. Make sure you and your care teams are up to date with all that the WSMA has to offer for your advance care planning and end-of-life care efforts.

Honoring Choices® Pacific Northwest

This year Honoring Choices® Pacific Northwest, jointly sponsored by the WSMA Foundation and the Washington State Hospital Association, is producing three virtual play performances about advance care planning (including a Spanish version), as well as hosting a game show to encourage people to discuss their choices. For more information on the events and the initiative, visit honoringchoicespnw.org. Honoring Choices PNW also offers a promotions toolkit for National Healthcare Decisions Day to help your practice or organization raise awareness of advance care planning. Explore the toolkit on their website.

POLST

Intended for individuals with serious illness, the Portable Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment represents a way of translating an individual's wishes - often expressed in their advance directive - into actual medical orders. Visit wsma.org/polst for more information on POLST and more.

For more information about National Healthcare Decisions Day, visit celebratehdd.online.