Honoring Choices Minnesota offers a free, downloadable health care directive that allows you to share your treatment choices and personal preferences if you cannot communicate your wishes. It also allows you to appoint another person (called a health care agent) to make health care decisions if you are unable to do so.

Download the Honoring Choices Minnesota health care directive here.
Download the Psychiatric Advance directive here.

• Download the Spanish version
• Download the Hmong version
• Download the Somali version
• Download the Russian version

Honoring Choices Minnesota is a collaborative approach to advance care planning by hospitals and medical societies across the Twin Cities. It uses the internationally-recognized Respecting Choices® program as a model and guide. Go to the MetroDoctors web site to find out more about Honoring Choices Minnesota.

Organ and tissue donation

LifeSource is an organization dedicated to saving lives through organ and tissue donation. They serve communities in Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota and portions of western Wisconsin. To learn more, visit the LifeSource web site or see FAQs about organ and tissue donation.

Estate planning

When you are planning for your treatment choices, take the opportunity to makes plans for your assets as well. Click here for valuable information and tools about how to make those plans, including ways to include HealthEast and other charitable organizations in your estate.