Advanced Care Planning is all about YOU!
Advanced Care Planning is all about YOU!
Make choices now so your friends and family can support and understand your future needs based upon you as an individual.
Forks Community Hospital is here to
help you with planning, facilitating
the conversation, and providing
resources you may need now or in the
future.
We cannot know what tomorrow holds, and we may be faced with a healthcare situation that does not allow us to communicate our needs.
In partnership with Honoring Choices, the linked workbook is designed to facilitate a conversation between loved ones and those over 18 years old and older. Forks Community Hospital is prepared to partner in this conversation, answer questions, and help you flesh out your healthcare goals, values, and preferences. Advance Directives change with your individual healthcare situation and are recommended to all adults no matter their current healthcare standing.
When you cannot make a healthcare decision on your own, a durable power of attorney allows a trusted person such as a friend or family to make legal healthcare decisions on your behalf.
This does not have to be a permanent arrangement and can change as each situation dictates. A Durable Power of Attorney is a legal document and must be signed in front of a notary.
POLST forms are between patients and their providers to determine which life-sustaining treatments if any, a patient wishes to have performed.
Forks Community Hospital can provide you with an advocate to help you understand each portion of the form and how it applies to your individual health situation. POLST forms can change as your individual medical situation changes.
Advanced Healthcare Planning can feel overwhelming. Forks Community Hospital can help simplify the process and identify what is best for you as an individual.
For more information please email sharp@forkshospital.org.