{"id":9169,"date":"2018-12-16T22:24:49","date_gmt":"2018-12-17T06:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=9169"},"modified":"2019-04-18T22:35:02","modified_gmt":"2019-04-19T05:35:02","slug":"hospital-care-home-policies-must-change-so-more-people-can-access-medical-assistance-in-dying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=9169","title":{"rendered":"Hospital, care-home policies must change so more people can access medical assistance in dying"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>The Province<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"author\">Alex Muir<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> . . . an individual who is suffering intolerably and whose death is reasonably  foreseeable has a constitutional right to medical assistance in dying  (MAiD) if certain other criteria are met. . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> . . . most people in Vancouver\u2019s West End will end up at St. Paul\u2019s, a  hospital run by Catholic-based Providence Health, which doesn\u2019t allow  MAiD to be performed in any of its facilities.   Anyone wanting to access MAiD once at St. Paul\u2019s must be transferred to Vancouver General Hospital or another willing facility.  .  .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>. . . end the practice of forced transfers by insisting that all  taxpayer-funded facilities, including Providence facilities, provide  MAiD on site. . .[<a href=\"https:\/\/theprovince.com\/opinion\/op-ed\/alex-muir-hospital-care-home-policies-must-change-so-more-people-can-access-medical-assistance-in-dying\">Full text<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Province Alex Muir . . . an individual who is suffering intolerably and whose death is reasonably foreseeable has a constitutional right to medical assistance in dying (MAiD) if certain other criteria are met. . . . . . most people in Vancouver\u2019s West End will end up at St. Paul\u2019s, a hospital run &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=9169\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hospital, care-home policies must change so more people can access medical assistance in dying&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5432,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77,32,643,4,162,7,295],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-9169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assisted-suicide","category-canada","category-christianity-catholicism","category-commentary","category-euthanasia","category-law","category-religious-freedom"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>Hospital, care-home policies must change so more people can access medical assistance in dying - 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