Advance Care Planning
Advance care planning improves multiple outcomes for patients, family and health care systems
In partnership with Five Wishes, Bryan Health Connect is offering 100 copies of the Five Wishes document to members to distribute to their patients.
What is Five Wishes?
The Five Wishes Program for Healthcare offers a robust suite of tools and resources. From accessible clinical training to custom-built virtual solutions, Five Wishes provides a solid foundation for meaningful communication between providers, patients and families about what matters most.
Five Wishes Can Help Your Patients
The Five Wishes document gives patients a way to control something that is very important—how they are treated if they get seriously ill. It is an easy-to-complete form that lets patients say exactly what they want.
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Five Wishes Can Improve Quality of Care
Research consistently demonstrates that good advance care planning improves multiple outcomes for patients, families and health care systems, including:
- Higher patient and family satisfaction with care quality
- Reduced unnecessary and unwanted hospitalizations and intensive treatments at the end of life
- Reduced costs of end-of-life care without increasing mortality
- Increased timely enrollment in palliative care and hospice care
- Increased likelihood of the patient dying in the setting of their choice
- Lower risk of anxiety, depression, and stress for family members, as well as a reduced sense of burden and decisional conflict
- Reduces moral distress for clinicians
