The U.S. Living Will Registry
provides an easy, cost-effective way for your facility
to manage its advance directives while satisfying
federal and state regulations. The Registry
electronically stores advance directives and organ
donor information, and makes them available to health
care providers across the country 24 hours a day by
telephone and secure Internet through an automated
system.
Health care providers face
significant challenges in storing and retrieving
advance directives:
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How does the provider know
that the advance directive on file is the most
recent?
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Which of the multiple charts
on a particular patient contains the most current
advance directive?
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Who has the time to search
through the medical records to find the old advance
directive each time the patient is re-admitted?
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What does a provider do with
the advance directive when they convert their charts
to electronic form, or microfiche?
Designed in collaboration with
health care providers, administrators, attorneys and
doctors, our solution is a manageable, efficient
solution to these problems.
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A single location
to store and retrieve advance directives at your
facility.
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Annual letters
sent to registrants to assure the documents stored
in the Registry are up to date and reflect current
information.
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Secure online or
fax access to documents among all of your various
facilities.
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Frees staff from
the administrative burdens associated with filing,
updating and retrieving directive documents.
The Registry offers a comprehensive program that
allows storage and retrieval of ALL advance directives
at your facility...even those already on file in your
record room.
Federal
law requires health care providers (hospitals,
doctors, skilled nursing facilities, nursing
facilities, home health agencies, providers of home
health care, ambulatory surgery centers, and hospices)
to determine whether any patient being admitted has an
advance directive and, if so, to place a copy into the
medical record.
We help you comply with federal
regulations that require your facility to provide
community education about advance directives with our
"Living Will Fair Guide", available only to members of
the Registry.
