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Respecting Choices services under the partnership, as well as realizing additional benefits from other opportunities, C-TAC and Gundersen officials said. Almost all of Respecting Choices staffers and certain key leaders will move from offices on Gundersen's La Crosse campus to another location in the city, although staffers will be C-TAC employees. "The mission and the content will be moving, but the program will remain the same", says Bud Hammes, director of Medical Humanities and Respecting Choices at Gundersen Health System and one of the inventors of the advance-care planning program.
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Lessons learned from the project have been developed into a comprehensive curriculum that has become known as
Gundersen Health System's Respecting Choices Organization & Community Advance Care Planning Course. Today, it uses an evidence-based model to communicate patient's wishes for care,
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Gundersen Health System has locations in 19 counties throughout western
Wisconsin, northeastern Iowa and southeastern Minnesota. The network's sprawling flagship campus is located on the south side of La Crosse, Wisconsin. On June 1, 2022, Gundersen announced its intention to merge with the
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was funding an $ 8.5 million study, which will take place over five years using
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treatment, or services before and at the end of life. Respecting Choices is internationally recognized and provides training and consultation to organizations and communities around the world. In 2014, it was announced the
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Gundersen Health's flagship hospital, Gundersen Lutheran Medical Center, is located in La Crosse and is a teaching hospital with 325 beds and a Level II Trauma and Emergency Center. The hospital received
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