Swedish Covenant Hospital is a member of the Planetree
Alliance of healthcare facilities, putting our patients first.

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iMedConsent can function as a
stand -alone application or seamlessly interface with an institution's
EMR system. The
company's iMedConsent (TM) application is currently used by more than
10,000 physicians and in more than 100 hospitals nationwide . More
information is available at http://www. And, the ACLJ
said it will file an amicus brief with the Supreme Court in support of
the government's position.

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Since December 1991, the Patient Self Determination Act has
required hospitals to inform patients about their right to participate
in healthcare decisions, including their right to have advance
directives. After opening the module in the
iMedConsent application, hospital staff can assist a patient with
assigning durable power of attorney, document the patient's wishes
relative to life-sustaining procedures under certain circumstances and
allow a patient to enter information about his or her additional
wishes.

Swedish Covenant Hospital is a comprehensive healthcare facility providing
health and wellness services to the communities of Chicago's North Side.C. The government's position is sound and
constitutional ."
In a directive issued by then-Attorney General John Ashcroft in
2001, the government said that assisting in suicide is not a
"legitimate medical purpose" and stated that physicians who prescribed
life-ending drugs would lose their licenses to prescribe federally
controlled drugs under the Controlled Substances Act.

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Dialog Medical Announces Availability of Advance Directives Module; New Module Gives Hospitals the Tools They Need to Provide Patients with Advance Directives

When signed
by a competent patient, advance directives give direction to
healthcare providers about treatment choices in certain circumstances,
like when a patient is permanently unconscious.SwedishCovenant.
"The federal government must have the opportunity to legally
prohibit physicians from prescribing life -ending medication to assist
patients commit suicide," said Jay Sekulow, Chief Counsel of the ACLJ ,
which has filed briefs in support of the government's position in this
case.
A federal district court and an appeals court blocked the
Department of Justice from implementing that directive.

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On Wednesday,
April 5, 2006, Swedish Covenant Hospital will help to spark some discussion of
these issues by sponsoring Living with Grief: Pain Management at the End of
Life, Bridging the Gap between Knowledge and Practice, the thirteenth annual
Hospice Foundation of America teleconference.

ACLJ: Supreme Court Has Important Opportunity to Halt Physician-Assisted Suicide

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The
application quickly produces procedure and treatment consent forms,
tailored to an individual patient's underlying diagnosis, that are
drawn from a comprehensive library of consent documents . to 4:30 p.

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Instructive directives allow for preferences
regarding the provision of particular therapies or classes of
therapies. Hospital staff can also capture the patient's signature using
a digital signature pad, save the final advance directive in a
document imaging system and automatically add a progress note
indicating the presence of advance directives to the patient's chart
in an existing electronic medical record (EMR) system.com

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Dialog Medical's iMedConsent application is a comprehensive
informed consent and patient education solution that is used by
hospitals, surgery centers and physician practices to inform patients
about the clinical details, risks, benefits and alternatives
associated with thousands of medical treatments and procedures. The panel will
discuss the current and possible future strategies for the management of pain
in the terminally ill, as well as discuss the ethical issues involved in such
decisions.

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The iMedConsent advance directives module enables hospitals to
meet the requirements of this Act.

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Physicians can modify documents to reflect specific treatment
protocols, the literacy level of patients and the regulations specific
to the state in which they practice. For more
information on Dialog Medical and its products, visit
www.

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Registration is
required.C. The ACLJ is online at www.org

'Euthanasia' is often used to refer to all of the forms of hastened death:
*Physician assisted dying - a physician provides a competent, terminally ill patient with a prescription for a lethal dose of medication
*Mercy killing - an individual, usually a close relative or friend, ends the life of another who is suffering
*'Self deliverance' - a terminally ill individual ends his or her own life without the prescription of a lethal dose of medication
*Voluntary euthanasia - a physician responds to a terminally ill patient's request for a hasten death by ADMINISTERING a lethal dose of medication to the patient
*Involuntary euthanasia - a physician administers a lethal dose of medication to a patient, without an explicit request from the patient
*Passive euthanasia - a patient's death is hastened by the removal or withholding of treatments or life support
*Active euthanasia - a patient's death is hastened by treatments given or administered to the patient

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Through the use of the
iMedConsent advance directives module, hospitals can ensure that
patients who do not check-in with these documents have the ability to
create them prior to undergoing a major treatment or procedure. A panel of nationally
recognized experts will examine the issues regarding the existing gap between
our knowledge and the application of effective pain control in the terminally
ill, including pharmaceutical, psychosocial, spiritual and complementary
practices, highlighting cutting-edge knowledge and methodology.
Led by Chief Counsel Jay Sekulow , the American Center for Law and
Justice specializes in constitutional law and is based in Washington ,
D.

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As
one of the few independent, nonprofit hospitals in the area, Swedish Covenant
Hospital remains focused on its mission of compassionate care. Supreme Court to take an appeal by
the Bush administration concerning the legality of Oregon's
assisted-suicide law is an important opportunity for the court to give
federal drug agents the power to take action against doctors who
assist terminally ill patients commit suicide. "The Attorney General clearly has the authority to use a federal
statute to prevent physicians from assisting in ending the lives of
terminally ill patients. And , we are hopeful the high court will ultimately
determine that federal drug laws must take precedence over the state's
control of medicine.

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The teleconference, to be moderated by CNN special correspondent Frank
Sesno, professor of Public Policy and Communication at George Mason
University, will run from 11:45 a.
The Supreme Court said today it would hear the case.

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This
surrogate makes care decisions for the patient in the event he or she
is incapacitated.

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More than
500 physicians join the hospital 's nurses and professional staff to strengthen
a foundation of excellence established nearly 120 years ago into a tradition
that will endure.

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ATLANTA----Dialog Medical, the
leading provider of informed consent and patient education systems for
hospitals and physician practices, today announced the addition of an
advance directives module to its iMedConsent application . Anyone coping
with this difficult issue is encouraged to attend; healthcare and other
professionals may earn CEU credit.org .

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The proxy directive, generally a Durable Power of
Attorney for Health Care (DPAHC), allows for the designation of a
surrogate medical decision maker of the patient's choosing . CHICAGO, The ethical questions faced at end of
life have compounded in light of the issues raised over the past year, with
much media attention focused on when and how to make the many difficult
decisions involved with caring for a terminally ill loved one.
The national teleconference will be followed by a local panel discussion
and question and answer period at Swedish Covenant Hospital . For information on free registration and
optional fees, call (773) 878-6888, register online
agonzale@schosp .S.

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Advance directives fall into two categories: proxy and
instructive.

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About Dialog Medical

Dialog Medical is a leading provider of informed consent and
patient education systems for hospitals and physician practices.

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"We are always looking for ways to help providers meet the
pressing needs of their patients," said Michael Burke, president of
Dialog Medical.org .aclj.

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"Supplying our hospital customers with access to an
advance directives module was a natural step, especially in light of
national efforts to better educate patients on the importance of
advance directives. iMedConsent
also includes patient education documents for thousands of diagnoses
and treatments, as well as an extensive image gallery that allows the
physician to annotate images and simplify complex topics for the
patient.

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