Explore Advance Directives at Free Workshop January 3, 2025 Join this free, in-person workshop where you will explore your health care decisions and have the opportunity to complete your own advance directive. Topics include: Advance directives conversation starters. Appointing a health care representative. Documenting your desires in the matter of critical life support. Brief introduction to physician orders for life-sustaining treatment (POLST). The workshops are held from 3:30 to 5 p.m. on the third Tuesday of each month at the Samaritan Center for Health Education in Newport, 740 SW Ninth St., west of Samaritan Pacific Communities Hospital. Call Chaplain Pauline Morrison at 541-996-6100 for more information and to register for one of the following sessions: Tuesday, Jan. 21 Tuesday, Feb. 18 Tuesday, March 18 Tuesday, April 15 Tuesday, May 20 Tuesday, June 17 Tuesday, July 15 Tuesday, Aug. 19 Tuesday, Sept. 16 Tuesday, Oct. 21 Tuesday, Nov. 18 Tuesday, Dec. 16