Compassion & Choices

Description

Across the nation, we work to ensure that healthcare providers honor and enable patients’ decisions about their care. To make this vision a reality, Compassion & Choices works nationwide in communities, state legislatures, Congress, courts and medical settings to:

• Educate the public about the importance of documenting end-of-life values and priorities and about the full range of available options.
• Empower every individual with achievable options, authoritative information and constructive advice for guiding their care and engaging with their providers.
• Advocate for expanded choices, secure and ready access to them and improved medical practice that puts patients first and values quality of life in treatment plans for terminal illness.
• Defend existing end-of-life options from efforts to restrict access.

It’s our belief - and our experience for the past 30 years - that the path to change starts with the individual, which is why patient-centered care stands at the core of all we do.