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 TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2010 11:16 pm |
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State hospitals making right-to-die policies OLYMPIA, Wash. -- Health officials, hospitals and hospices are facing a deadline to decide on policies for Washington's new right-to-die law.The Death with Dignity Act approved by voters in November takes effect March 5. The state Health Department is drafting rules to implement the law, and a public hearing is scheduled for Feb. 10 in Tumwater. Even Catholic health care systems that opt out still have to decide how to move patients who want to use the law. In Seattle, the University of Washington Medical Center and Harborview Medical Center are participating but still working out policies. The new law is modeled after the Oregon law that allows a lethal dose of medicine for terminally ill patients. On the Net https://fortress.wa.gov/doh/policyreview/Documents/0902068finaldwdaf orms102.pdf |
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(11) - A tidy lawn could be law in Lynnwood (10)
- State Senate votes to toss I-960's tax-raising hurdle (9)
- Lynnwood sets height limit on grass: 8 inches (8)
- Everett rethinks boutique wineries (5)
- Everett police officers cleared in 2008 shooting death (5)
- 1949 travel aid shows how few places blacks were welcome in Washington (4)
- I-5 bridge joint may give you a jolt, but it isn't damaged (4)
- A new bowling alley for Monroe? (3)
- Toyota has powerful D.C. friends (3)
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