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STEUBENVILLE -- Valley Hospice will be offering free community events for National Healthcare Decisions Day.
Helping to lead Valley Hospice in the effort to highlight the importance of advanced health care decision-making -- an effort that has culminated in the formal designation of April 16 as National Healthcare Decisions Day -- are national, state and community organizations.
As a participating organization since the start of the program, Valley Hospice is providing information and tools for the public to talk about their wishes with family, friends and health care providers, and execute written advance directives in accordance with Ohio and West Virginia state laws.
"As a result of National Healthcare Decisions Day, many more people in our community can be expected to have thoughtful conversations about their health care decisions and complete reliable advance directives to make their wishes known," said Robert Kolb, Valley Hospice social worker.
"Fewer families and health care providers will have to struggle with making difficult health care decisions in the absence of guidance from the patient, and health care providers and facilities will be better equipped to address advance health care planning issues before a crisis and be better able to honor wishes when the time comes to do so."
Valley Hospice will hold a series of events to answer questions and provide guidelines for advance health care decision making.
Events and co-sponsors will include: WVU Medicine Barnesville Hospital, 8 a.m. to 10 a.m., today; WVU Medicine Harrison Community Hospital, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., Monday; Millsop Community Center in Weirton, 9 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., April 9; Marshall County Senior Center, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., April 10; Trinity Medical Center West, 8 a.m. to 10 a.m., April 14; WVU Medicine Wheeling Hospital, 8 a.m. to 10 a.m., April 16; Steubenville YMCA, 9 a.m. to 11 a.m., April 21; and WVU Medicine Reynolds Memorial Hospital, 8 a.m. to 10 a.m., April 22.