Whitman Hospital to host session on health directives

Whitman Hospital will host a session on preparing advance directives and other papers that designate a person’s preferences in the event of a medical emergency. The session will be at the hospital’s administrative annex Saturday, April 16, from 1 to 2:30 p.m.

A Medstar helicopter and staff of the regional tissue and organ donation organization, Lifecenter, will be present. Tours of the helicopter will be available.

The event is in observance of National Healthcare Decisions Day.

“You need to start thinking about those decisions as you go through the decades of life,” said Denise Fowler, chief...