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attendees, including
Audrey and DeVante
Johnson. The couple
already has a Living Will
and wanted a Health Care
Power of Attorney. Audrey
Johnson said as the parents
of three children, they felt
it was an important issue
for them to deal with:
"You just have a
respon
sibility
and you
don't
want to
put an
unneces
s a r y
stress on
your
spouse
Johnson
or oiner
family members to make
decisions on your behalf
when you can kind of plan
that out in advance, and
that makes it easier for your
loved ones should there
ever be an accident or
something occur and those
decisions have to be
made " she said.
Hospices have long
Photo? by Todd Luck
Organizers show an opening presentation at the workshop sponsored by Rowan
Hospice & Palliative Care on Friday, April 17 at St. Peter's Church & World
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advocated for people to
make advance directives
for end of life care. Rowan
Hospice has already
addressed the congregation
at St. Peter's on the subject
and goes to many places
around the community to
give presentations and hold
workshops.
"As much as possible
we want people to be able
to die on their own terms,"
said Ann Gauthreaux,
Hospice regional director
of public relations.
She said death rarely
happens quickly and quiet
ly. It usually requires med
ical care and sometimes
difficult decisions.
Currently there are 400
people under Rowan
Hospice's care. Those with
six months or less to live
qualify for hospice care,
the vast majority of which
takes place outside of a
hospice facility, such as in
the patient's homes or
long-term care facility. She
said the care is holistic for
the patient and family, and
is intended to help them
live their last days as fully
and comfortably as possi
ble. Attorney Melissa
Phipps said she's seen first
hand how not having
advance directives can be
difficult on families.
"I've worked for almost
Pkipps
17 years
as an
attorney
working
for a
health
care sys
tem in
house and
I've seen
what hap
p e n s
when
these con
versations
don't hap
pen - the
conflicts
that fami
lies have
because
Gaulhreaux
one per
son's way of loving
momma best is to do every
thing, another persons way
of loving momma best is to
let momma die, let momma
have a death with dignity,"
said Phipps, Novant
Health's VP of Patients
Services and chair of the
North Carolina Bar
Association's Health Law
Council End of Life
Subcommittee.
She said the N.C. Bar
association also will be
holding sessions across the
state on advance directives.
She said it's important to
make advance directives *
before serious illness or
injury happens. She said
that state law puts extra
burdens on advance direc
tives, requiring both a
notary and two qualified
witnesses who aren't fami
ly members or healthcare
workers, making it some
times challenging to do in a
hospital setting even when
the patient can communi
cate. A state House of
Representatives bill (HB
146), which had Forsyth
County Reps. Donny
Lambeth and Debra
Conrad among its spon
sors, would've reduced the
requirements to either a
notary or two witnesses
was voted down in April.
"It's more about
empowerment and choice
than it is about death," said
Phipps.
For more information
about advance directives
and a schedule of "Got
Plans?" workshops, visit
gotplans!23 .org.
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consider the case. Within
hours of the ruling, they
presented proposed sched
ules to the state Supreme
Court with the goal of set
tling the litigation before
the 2016 election cycle.
Candidate filing begins
next February.
"The redistricting plans
which the General
Assembly created were
illegal because they were
racially gerrymandered,"
said the Rev. William
Barber, president of the
North Carolina NAACP
chapter. "They were
intended to violate the
political presence and the
participation of racial
minorities." New bound
aries will have to be drawn,
Rarhe.r nredicted.
A pair of legal chal
lenges focused on 27 state
House and Senate districts
and three congressional
districts. In many districts,
Democratic-leaning black
voters were placed within
boundaries that ultimately
benefited Republicans else
where in the state. A three
judge panel of state trial
judges unanimously upheld
the maps in 2013. A major
ity of state justices deter
mined the districts with
stood legal scrutiny
whether or not race had
been the predominant fac
tor in drawing them.
Republicans who led
the 2011 mapmaking com
mittees said Monday's
decision was procedural"
and not unanticipated.
They believe the maps are
lawful and designed to pro
tect the state from legal
claims under the federal
Voting Rights Act.
"We are confident that
our state Supreme Court
will once again arrive at the
same result and the U.S.
Supreme Court will affirm
its decision," Rep. David
Lewis, R-Harnett, and Sen.
Bob Rucho, R
Mecklenburg, said in a
written statement.
In the Alabama case.
Justice Stephen Breyer said
lawmakers and a lower
court relied too much on a
mechanically numerical"
view of whether the new
plan reduced minority vot
ing strength. Breyer wrote
that the court should have
asked what percentages
were necessary for minori
ties to elect their candidate
of choice.
In earlier N.C. redis
tricting, Democrats in
charge of maps adopted a
similar strategy that result
ed in cutting back the per
centages of black voters in
majority-black districts.
They kept more black vot
ers in districts with white
Democrats where com
bined they could influence
election outcomes. N.C.
legislative Republicans
contend the two cases are
different because their legal
defense is based on a dif
ferent portion of the Voting
Rights Act than the
Alabama case. The number
of minority legislators has
reached record numbers in
the N.C. General Assembly
since the latest round of
redistricting. In the 2009
legislative session, when
Democrats were in charge,
there were 30 black legisla
tors. There are 34 black
lawmakers today.
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President Dr. Jimmy
Jenkins, Bennett College
Interim Provost Dr.
Michelle Linster, Winston
Salem State University
Government Relations
Director Cornelius Graves,
and North Carolina
Agricultural and Technical
State University's
Chancellor Dr. Harold
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U.S. Rep. Alma Adams,
12th District, meets with
presidents and represen
tatives from four
HBCUs in North
Carolina's 12th
Congressional District
on Monday, April 20, to
talk about HBCUs.
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forming a Strategic
Alliance that will collabo
ratively reach the greater
Triad.
On July 1, Partnership
for Community Care
(P4CC) and Northwest
Community Care Network
(NCCN) intend to com
plete a strategic alliance
that will serve the 10 coun
ties of Davidson, Davie,
Forsyth, Guilford,
Randolph, Rockingham,
Stokes, Surry, Wilkes and
Yadkin.
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