{"id":2408,"date":"2017-04-16T08:02:09","date_gmt":"2017-04-16T12:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=2408"},"modified":"2017-04-14T13:30:54","modified_gmt":"2017-04-14T17:30:54","slug":"today-is-advance-care-planning-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2017\/04\/16\/today-is-advance-care-planning-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Today is Advance Care Planning Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Apr 16, 2017 @ 08:02<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The North East Local Health Integration Network (NE LHIN) works to improve a patient\u2019s experience with the health care system across the entire continuum \u2013 from birth to death. Expanding access to palliative care services and hospice beds in Northeastern Ontario is just one of the ways the LHIN is responding to Northerners\u2019 needs for compassionate end-of-life care.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The NE LHIN held a Death Caf\u00e9 at this time last year to help begin conversations about death and normalizing the conversation about end-of-life.\u00a0 With Advance Care Planning Day on April 16, the NE LHIN encourages Northerners to focus on making end-of-life wishes known to loved ones while they are able to.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Louise Paquette, CEO of the NE LHIN, is shown above with the NE LHIN\u2019s Palliative Care Lead, Lianne Valiquette, reflecting on communicating wishes for end-of-life care. \u201cPutting a plan in place ensures my family understands my values and wishes, and helps them with decisions that I may not be able to communicate in my final stages of life,\u201d said Paquette.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The NE LHIN provides more than $5 million each year for hospice palliative care across Northeastern Ontario. This includes\u00a0two hospices in Sudbury and Sault Ste. Marie, hospice volunteer visiting delivered by nine agencies, and six education programs. See the NE LHIN\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nelhin.on.ca\/palliativecare.aspx\">website<\/a>for information on hospice palliative care across the region.<\/p>\n<p>Advance Care Planning workbooks and guides can be found at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.advancecareplanning.ca\/\">www.advancecareplanning.ca<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div><div class=\"divider\"><\/div>\n<strong>About The North East Local Health Integration Network (North East LHIN) -\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0The North East LHIN is one of the largest of 14 LHINs in Ontario, responsible for planning, integrating and funding health care services for more than 565,000 people across an estimated 400,000 square kilometers. From offices in North Bay, Sault Ste. Marie, Sudbury and Timmins, this are a provincial crown corporation that ensures the local health care system works when people need it. The North East LHIN brings close to 150 of our region\u2019s health care partners together \u2013 hospitals, community support services, mental health and addictions, community health centres, long-term care homes, and the Community Care Access Centre.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apr 16, 2017 @ 08:02 The North East Local Health Integration Network (NE LHIN) works to improve a patient\u2019s experience with the health care system across the entire continuum \u2013 from birth to death. Expanding access to palliative care services and hospice beds in Northeastern Ontario is just one of the ways the LHIN is &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,40],"tags":[326],"class_list":["post-2408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-local","tag-advance-care-planning-day"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-07 08:10:31","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2408"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2410,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2408\/revisions\/2410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}