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‘You’re truly remarkable people. Your presence is a blessing.’ LIFE MATTERS MEDIA STAFF Former Vice President Joe Biden praised hospice nurses during an event celebrating the 70th anniversary of the Visiting Nurse Health System. “Simply put, you do God’s work,” Biden told a crowd of nurses in Atlanta, Ga., last week. Pleased to join @JoeBiden […]
LIFE MATTERS MEDIA STAFF Prince Harry and Meghan Markle gifted flowers from their Royal Wedding to St. Joseph’s Hospice in London. Flowers that adorned St. George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle on Saturday were a “very special delivery,” the health care facility posted on social media. Thank you @philippaflowers and Meghan and Harry for the #royalwedding flowers. […]
LIFE MATTERS MEDIA STAFF Maine residents could soon vote on a controversial physician-assisted suicide measure. A citizens group has launched a petition to get an assisted death law on a statewide ballot next fall. If proponents gather more than 61,000 valid signatures, Mainers could decide if terminally ill patients have the right to request life-ending […]
BY DANIEL GAITAN | daniel@lifemattersmedia.org California’s controversial physician-assisted suicide law has been ruled unconstitutional by a state judge. Judge Daniel A. Ottolia, of Riverside County Superior Court, on Tuesday overturned the law nearly two years after it took effect, ruling that the state Legislature improperly passed the measure during a special session on health care funding. […]
LIFE MATTERS MEDIA STAFF South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster signed into law this month a bill to evaluate the state’s health care resources for seriously and terminally ill patients. The new law establishes the state’s first Palliative Care and Quality of Life Study Committee, which is designed to offer insight about such care and provide […]