Planning for Emergency Hospitalizations

Planning for emergency hospitalizations is not something people like to think about, and different document types can cause confusion. What is the difference between health care powers of attorney, advance directives and DNR forms? Where should these documents be stored? Should you register you documents with the Arizona Health Care Directive Registry? What is “code status”? How should your medication lists be handled? Have you thought about who will care for your pets?

In this podcast, we discuss all of these points to provide some general advice for emergency planning from a case management setting. Planning for emergency hospitalizations can be daunting, but we hope you’ll consider doing so after listening in.