Advance Care Planning Ensure your Healthcare Wishes are Honored
Saturday, April 17, 2010   The Five Wishes Advance Healthcare Directive booklet helps facilitate public and family discussion about written advance directives power of attorney for health care and communication of individual wishes in regard to end-of-life care.   This document lets your family and doctors know: The person you want to make healthcare decisions for you when you can’t make them. The kind of medical treatment you want or don’t want. How comfortable you want to be. How you want people to treat you. What you want your loved ones to know.		Advance Planning Seminar April 17, 8:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. (registration at 8:30) Burtness Auditorium Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Pueblo at Bath Street (See map >> )   Register at http://sbcc.augusoft.net
In collaboration with Visiting Nurse and Hospice Care and SBCC Adult Education, CHS is offering two free seminars:   Morning Program:  9:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Afternoon Program:  1:15–3:00 p.m. Conversations Before the Crisis     •   Talking about end-of-life care is not easy   •   Learn from professionals about your choices and how to share them:      • Michael Bordofsky, MD  • Sharon Kennedy, Attorney at Law  • Eileen Bunning, RN, MA   Put it in Writing     •   Receive free copy of Five Wishes   •   View Five Wishes video   •   A panel of professionals will answer your questions and provide general legal and spiritual information:      • Deborah Boswell, Attorney at Law  • Sharon Kennedy, Attorney at Law  • The Reverend Pam Washburn
Participants may attend either morning or afternoon session, or both.   No host lunch available in Cottage Cafeteria. Parking available in Pueblo Street Parking Structure. Co sponsored by Visiting Nurse & Hospice Care and SBCC. To register go to http://sbcc.augusoft.net/   For information contact Marion Schoneberger at mschoneberger@vnhcsb.org or 690-6295     You are also invited to visit one of our Open House events on April 16 to get your copy of Five Wishes. A Cottage representative will be on hand to answer general information about advance care planning.  More information >>
		April 12, 2010