Participating Organizations in 2009:

• 80 national organizations
• At least 700 state and local organizations
• Activities in all 50 states, Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia
• The US Army and Navy are conducting activities at bases around the world
• Click here to view the complete listing of organizations
• Several states and local jurisdictions established proclamations officially recognizing National Healthcare Decisions Day

• Survey results from less than half of participating organizations indicated over 600,000 facility/organization staff members received NHDD/AD information or training, over 130,000 members of the general public participated in NHDD events and/or were known to have received advance directive information, and roughly 10,000 advance directives were completed on NHDD alone!
• There was a variety of coverage in newspapers, TV, radio, and the internet.

• For the public
• For providers/organizations

• Title: National Healthcare Decisions Day 2008: The Law, the Talk and the Care
• 533 participating sites in 49 states
• More than 2106 registrants requesting professional continuing education credit
• Available for free downloading: http://www.mcguirewoods.com/media/default.asp (password: mwmedia)

• In 2008, both houses of Congress issued proclamations for the event (S.Con.Res.73 & H.Con.Res.323)