St. Mary's Medical Center Hosts Free Forum on ''Planning Your Advance Directives''; Americans Care About End-of-Life Planning, But Avoid Doing Anything About It.St. Mary's Medical Center St. Mary's Medical Center may refer to:
Who & What: St. Mary's Medical Center will host its second annual free forum "Planning Your Advance Directives Advance Directive A document expressing a person's wishes about critical care when he or she is unable to decide for him or herself. However, it does not authorize anyone to act on a person's behalf or make decisions the way a power of attorney would. ," which will educate attendees on planning for end-of-life care, including procedures for declining life-sustaining treatment in any situation, not just when terminally ill Terminally Ill When a person is not expected to live more than 12 months. Notes: Any gifts given out by the afflicted person at this time may be considered as a dispersion of the estate rather than a gift. . As seen in the national news over the past few years, end-of-life decisions can pull families apart if the patient hasn't made their wishes clear beforehand. Although Americans have strong opinions on end-of-life care only 20% have selected someone to speak for them if they are unable to communicate and expressed their wishes in an advance directive. Sister Mary Kilgariff, from St. Mary's, will provide a primer on advance health care directives A living will, also called will to live, is one type of advance health directive, or advance health care directive. It is often accompanied by a specific type of power of attorney or health care proxy. , including documents such as Living Wills and Do-Not-Resuscitate (DNR See dynamic noise reduction and domain name resolver. ) Orders. During the second hour a panel, including an attorney, priest, doctor, palliative care palliative care (paˑ·lē·ā·tiv kerˑ), n an approach to health care that is concerned primarily with attending to physical and emotional comfort rather specialist, and ethics and justice expert, will provide their unique perspective on this issue and answer questions from the audience. "Our goal is to help individuals understand their options and rights to make medical treatment decisions about their end-of-life care," said Kilgariff. "People often lack the skills to start this conversation and lack knowledge about what choices they can make. Our goal with this forum is to teach the skills and provide the knowledge that can make a difference in how a person and family deal with end-of-life decisions." For nearly 150 years, St. Mary's Medical Center has provided the Bay Area with compassionate, personalized per·son·al·ize tr.v. per·son·al·ized, per·son·al·iz·ing, per·son·al·iz·es 1. To take (a general remark or characterization) in a personal manner. 2. To attribute human or personal qualities to; personify. care combined with the latest advances in medical care and cutting-edge technology. St. Mary's is a full-service acute care facility with more than 575 physicians and 1500 employees who provide high-quality and affordable health care services to the Bay Area community and patients from around the world. As one of San Francisco's leading hospitals, St. Mary's offers a full range of outpatient and inpatient services inpatient service Managed care A service provided to a hospitalized Pt. Cf Outpatient service. delivered with the human touch. When & Where: Thursday, April 27, 2006, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. at St. Mary's in Morrissey Hall located on level C of the Medical Office Building, 2250 Hayes St., San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden . Public transportation is available via Muni Lines (5 Fulton, 33 Stanyan, or 21 Hayes). Limited parking is available in the Medical Professional Building at 450 Stanyan St. or the West Parking Lot at Hayes & Stanyan.
Interview(s): Sister Mary Kilgariff, RN, Community Health Liaison,
SMMC
Mary Rotunno, Attorney, CHW San Francisco
Carole Bayley, VP for Ethics and Justice, CHW San
Francisco
Father Edward Murray, Spiritual Care, SMMC
Connie Borden, RN, Palliative Care Coordinator, SMMC
Bruce McCall, M.D., Chief of Anesthesia, SMMC
Contact: Erin Bartlett, Director of Marketing and Communications
Office: (415) 750-5787 Cellular: (415) 254-3379
erin.bartlett@chw.edu www.stmarysmedicalcenter.org
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