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United Health Foundation and Aging with Dignity Win National Healthcare Consumer Advocacy Award for 500,000 Wishes Campaign
Published in Law and Health Weekly, April 26th, 2008
The Society for Healthcare Consumer Advocacy (SHCA) will honor the United Health Foundation and Aging with Dignity today for the 500,000 Wishes Campaign - a grassroots effort to distribute half a million copies of the Five Wishes living will document in 20 foreign languages. The 2008 National Healthcare Consumer Advocacy Award, to be presented today in St. Louis, Missouri, recognizes an outstanding community or national leader or group that has made a significant impact on the quality of care for the health care consumer.
Five Wishes is an advance directive, or living will, which helps people make important decisions that address their medical, personal, emotional and...
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