Policies
Below you’ll find links to PeaceHealth St. Joseph Medical Center policies of public interest. They are also posted on the Washington State Department of Health website. Policy documents are presented in PDF format.
Admission
Advance Directives
Contraception
Do Not Resuscitate / Allow Natural Death
Definition of Death
Embryonic Stem Cell Research
Euthanasia
Medically Non-Beneficial Treatment
Nondiscrimination
Physician Assisted Suicide - Governance
Physician Assisted Suicide - Hospital Inpatient
Physician Order for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST)
Withholding and Withdrawing Life-Sustaining Treatment
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