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End of life care

Explore our resources on end of life care. Our brochure is available in multiple languages.
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Brochure (PDF format)

Know Your Choices: A Guide for Patients with Serious Advancing Illness - English, Open PDF file, 77.73 KB (English, PDF 77.73 KB)
Know Your Choices: A Guide for Patients with Serious Advancing Illness - Arabic, Open PDF file, 148.4 KB (Arabic, PDF 148.4 KB)
Know Your Choices: A Guide for Patients with Serious Advancing Illness - Cape Verdean, Open PDF file, 86.02 KB (Cape Verdean Creole, PDF 86.02 KB)
Know Your Choices: A Guide for Patients with Serious Advancing Illness - Traditional Chinese, Open PDF file, 280.96 KB (Chinese, Simplified, PDF 280.96 KB)
Know Your Choices: A Guide for Patients with Serious Advancing Illness - Haitian Creole, Open PDF file, 78.1 KB (Haitian Creole, PDF 78.1 KB)
Know Your Choices: A Guide for Patients with Serious Advancing Illness - Khmer, Open PDF file, 691 KB (Khmer, PDF 691 KB)
Know Your Choices: A Guide for Patients with Serious Advancing Illness - Portuguese, Open PDF file, 80.94 KB (Portuguese, Portugal, PDF 80.94 KB)
Know Your Choices: A Guide for Patients with Serious Advancing Illness - Russian, Open PDF file, 83.95 KB (Russian, PDF 83.95 KB)
Know Your Choices: A Guide for Patients with Serious Advancing Illness - Spanish, Open PDF file, 79.69 KB (Spanish, PDF 79.69 KB)
Know Your Choices: A Guide for Patients with Serious Advancing Illness - Vietnamese, Open PDF file, 96.49 KB (Vietnamese, PDF 96.49 KB)

Brochure (Word Document format)

Know Your Choices: A Guide for Patients with Serious Advancing Illness - English, Open DOCX file, 26.43 KB (English, DOCX 26.43 KB)
Know Your Choices: A Guide for Patients with Serious Advancing Illness - Arabic, Open DOC file, 56 KB (Arabic, DOC 56 KB)
Know Your Choices: A Guide for Patients with Serious Advancing Illness - Cape Verdean, Open DOC file, 68.5 KB (Cape Verdean Creole, DOC 68.5 KB)
Know Your Choices: A Guide for Patients with Serious Advancing Illness - Traditional Chinese, Open DOC file, 51 KB (Chinese, Simplified, DOC 51 KB)
Know Your Choices: A Guide for Patients with Serious Advancing Illness - Haitian Creole, Open DOCX file, 19 KB (Haitian Creole, DOCX 19 KB)
Know Your Choices: A Guide for Patients with Serious Advancing Illness - Khmer, Open DOCX file, 21.81 KB (Khmer, DOCX 21.81 KB)
Know Your Choices: A Guide for Patients with Serious Advancing Illness - Portuguese, Open DOCX file, 22.95 KB (Portuguese, Portugal, DOCX 22.95 KB)
Know Your Choices: A Guide for Patients with Serious Advancing Illness - Russian, Open DOC file, 66.5 KB (Russian, DOC 66.5 KB)
Know Your Choices: A Guide for Patients with Serious Advancing Illness - Spanish, Open DOCX file, 21.29 KB (Spanish, DOCX 21.29 KB)
Know Your Choices: A Guide for Patients with Serious Advancing Illness - Vietnamese, Open DOC file, 84.5 KB (Vietnamese, DOC 84.5 KB)

Circular letters

#14-12-623 New Regulations requiring distribution of information regarding patients with Serious Advancing Illness, Open PDF file, 775.22 KB (English, PDF 775.22 KB)
#14-12-623 New Regulations requiring distribution of information regarding patients with Serious Advancing Illness, Open DOC file, 54 KB (English, DOC 54 KB)

Regulations

Final amendments to 130 (Hospitals), 140 (Clinics), and 150 (Long-term Care Facilities), Open PDF file, 144.55 KB (English, PDF 144.55 KB)
Final amendments to 130 (Hospitals), 140 (Clinics), and 150 (Long-term Care Facilities), Open DOCX file, 18.08 KB (English, DOCX 18.08 KB)

More information

MOLST and Comfort Care DNR Verification

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