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Planning in advance
can guide your future medical treatment and give those who are caring
for you the opportunity to respect your choices. |
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Respecting Patient Choices |
| An Advance Care Planning Program | |
| "Respecting Patient Choices
(RPC) is an advance care planning program that assists individuals,
families and health professionals in making decisions about future
medical treatment. It focuses on developing a system of training,
practices, and policies so that effective advance care planning and
end-of-life decision making becomes the routine - the expected care
- throughout the Eastern Health community.
Based on the successful Respecting Choices Program originating at the Gunderson Lutheran Medical Centre in La Crosse, Wisconsin, the Respecting Patient Choices program commenced in Eastern Health in June 2003." 1 Strathdon is now part of the pilot program run by Eastern Health.
Selected staff at Strathdon are trained RPC Consultants and are
able to assist people to consider and discuss end-of-life issues.
An RPC Consultant assists the individual and family in making choices
about future medical treatment by discussing options and completing
an Advance Care Plan. An Advance Care Plan is a way of recording
and communicating the individual’s wishes about their future health
care. |
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Further Information |
| For more information contact Strathdon
Community, phone 9877 5144 and ask to speak to one of our RPC Consultants: Kerry Bounds, Linda Barr or Sue Wood. |
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Links |
| Eastern Health Respecting Patient Choices | |
| 1 http://www.easternhealth.org.au/eastern/respect-choice.html |
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