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 Terri
Schiavo case highlights the importance of having accessible
healthcare documents.
While the Terri Schiavo case has brought
much attention to the need to the need for planning for lifetime
health acre decisions, the sad fact is that in three out of
four cases health care documents are not available when needed
(based on a study by the Journal of the American Medical Association).
Many people believe that completion of health
care documents and putting them in their safe deposit box,
home safe, filing cabinet or even leaving it with the attorney
that prepared them will assure that their health care wishes
will be followed. In fact, the truth is that even when the
health care documents have been shared with the primary care
physician, fewer than half of these documents make it to the
hospital in a health emergency situation.
Decisions regarding life prolonging care
may arise unexpectedly and suddenly – this makes it
essential for your Advance Health Care Directive and HIPAA
Authorization Form to be available whenever and wherever they
are needed. What is really critical to assuring that your
wishes are honored is to get the documents quickly into the
hands of the treating doctors and other hospital staff.
To assure this easy access, Dennis M. Sandoval,
A Professional Law Corporation provides all its clients that
have purchased a comprehensive estate plan with a complimentary
three year membership to DocuBank, one of the nation’s
oldest and largest emergency health care information access
service companies.
DocuBank provides the clients of Dennis M.
Sandoval, A Professional Law Corporation, with a wallet sized
plastic information card with critical health care information
on it. The card has a twenty-four hour toll free number that
the hospital can dial, and within minutes of supplying information,
a copy of all of the client’s health care documents
are being faxed to the hospital’s fax number.
For more information on DocuBank, click
here. For more information on California Advance Health
Care Directives and HIPAA Authorization Forms, request our
FREE brochure entitled “It’s Your Life, You Should
Have The Final Say,” which can be obtained by clicking
here or calling us at 951-787-7711.
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