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In the 600 Catholic hospitals and hundreds of Catholic nursing homes around the country, such issues may grow more contentious in the wake of a new directive adopted by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.
As Harris Meyer recently reported in Kaiser Health News, the directive establishes “an obligation to provide patients with food and water, including medically assisted nutrition and hydration” for those who can’t eat or drink, and it specifically includes patients in “chronic and presumably irreversible conditions.”
Patients whose advance directives prohibit feeding tubes if they have terminal illnesses or have entered a persistent vegetative state (as mine does) would either have to accept such treatment or transfer to another facility.
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