Over the past several months, Ohioans have expressed concern over healthcare decision-making processes that have occurred in healthcare facilities across the state. The recent pandemic mandates have restricted family members access to loved ones in long-term care facilities or hospitals. This has led to instances of conflict regarding health care decisions. In some of these disputes, healthcare decisions were made by the healthcare facility before the dispute was resolved.
House Concurrent Resolution 26 reminds all Ohioans that a just society must err on the side of life, and maintain in the best interest of the patient, life-sustaining treatment, until such disputes or conflicts are resolved.
Additionally, a patient’s treatment plan should not be guided by subjective determinants such as “quality of life” which may put patients at risk of unjust and/or premature death.
Please ask your Representative to sign on to this life-affirming and life-protecting resolution.
House Concurrent Resolution 26 reminds all Ohioans that a just society must err on the side of life, and maintain in the best interest of the patient, life-sustaining treatment, until such disputes or conflicts are resolved.
Additionally, a patient’s treatment plan should not be guided by subjective determinants such as “quality of life” which may put patients at risk of unjust and/or premature death.
Please ask your Representative to sign on to this life-affirming and life-protecting resolution.
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First Message
Subject: Protect our health decision making rights
Message: There has been growing concern over the ability to maintain medical decision-making by individuals or their representatives, especially since the recent pandemic conditions which kept families from being able to be with loved ones hospitalized or in long term care, when medical treatment decisions needed to be made that could have profound effects, especially decisions regarding life-sustaining care. This has led in some instances to conflicts where such decisions are disputed, but the decisions are carried out in spite of the dispute.
The resolution would remind Ohioans that due process must be followed and the right to life upheld in such circumstances, and that it is in the public interest to maintain such life-sustaining care for a patient until due process has been followed and a definite decision made by an impartial decision-maker rendered in such disputes over the continuation or withdrawal of life-sustaining care. On behalf of Right to Life Action Coalition of Ohio and myself, please sign on to this Resolution to protect personal health care and especially life sustaining care decisions by patients and their representatives. |
Second Message
Subject: Protect our health decision making rights
Message: There has been growing concern over the ability to maintain medical decision-making by individuals or their representatives, especially since the recent pandemic conditions which kept families from being able to be with loved ones hospitalized or in long term care, when medical treatment decisions needed to be made that could have profound effects, especially decisions regarding life-sustaining care. This has led in some instances to conflicts where such decisions are disputed, but the decisions are carried out in spite of the dispute.
The resolution would remind Ohioans that due process must be followed and the right to life upheld in such circumstances, and that it is in the public interest to maintain such life-sustaining care for a patient until due process has been followed and a definite decision made by an impartial decision-maker rendered in such disputes over the continuation or withdrawal of life-sustaining care. On behalf of Right to Life Action Coalition and myself, please sign on to this Resolution to protect personal health care and especially life sustaining care decisions by patients and their representatives when it comes out of Committee. |