Supporting Family Health Care Decisions
New York is one of the only states to exclude families from making critical medical decisions for patients who lack the capacity to decide for themselves. Tragically, this fact is often not discovered until it is too late. As a result, incapacitated patients with no Health Care Proxy are subject to medical decisions made by those with far less knowledge of the patient. Read on, and find out more, and find out what you can do to help.

The Assembly version of the FHCDA, A.7729 was passed on January 20, 2010.

The Senate version, S.3164 is moving through committees and will hopefully be voted on by the full Senate soon.

Find out how you can help.

Public Hearing

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Flyers, distributed to legislators and staff
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What's new on the Family Decisions Web?

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There is a growing list of organizations supporting the FHCDA at this time. This website and companion listserv are maintained by an Ad Hoc Coalition representing a number of these organizations. Let us know if your group should be included in the list of bill supporters or if you personally want to become more involved in coalition activities.
For more information, E-mail Family Decision Coalition
For questions about website, E-mail Jack Freer
website design by Ben Freer