Honoring Choices® Tennessee has been in existence for 4 years, sponsored by 12 organizations including the Tennessee Medical Association,Tennessee Hospital Association and the Tennessee Nurses Association. It has developed a public education website and sponsored Healthcare Decisions Day events at several large medical centers in Tennessee.
Advance Directives at Work in Tennessee Program (AD@WorkTN) is an initiative led by Honoring Choices® Tennessee (HCTN) to encourage Tennesseans within the workforce, particularly those ages 30 to 65, to create an advance directive. The overarching goal of the AD@WorkTN program is to create a large-scale cultural shift across Tennessee whereby employers integrate Advance Care Planning into their employee benefits programs. The Advance Directives at Work in Tennessee Program brings a multi-generational focus on Advance Directives resulting in a cultural shift that positively impacts the future of health care for Geriatric and other patients across Tennessee.
The (AD@WorkTN) Program has the following objectives:
- To implement a public engagement, communications, and educational outreach about advance directives to human resources and benefits professionals at businesses, healthcare systems and higher educational institutions across Tennessee
- To disseminate educational materials and web tools that enable employers to institutionalize advance directives as part of their employee orientation and workplace benefits enrollment process
- To increase the numbers within the Tennessee workforce that complete advance directives.