The 24/7 National Crisis Lifeline extends the mission of the Terri Schiavo Life & Hope Network by providing critical support to at-risk patients and their families.
24/7 National Crisis Lifeline Questionnaire
Complete our Questionnaire if you or a loved one is in need of help.
24/7 National Crisis Lifeline Questionnaire
Every day, patients and their families face heartbreaking situations where their basic human dignity is at risk — not because of their own choices, but because a physician, hospital, or insurance company holds a different view about the care they deserve. In the most tragic cases, this can mean being denied even the most basic necessities of life, like food and water, through the forcible removal of a feeding tube.
More often, patients and families encounter other forms of denial of care that can lead to poor — and sometimes fatal — outcomes. In these difficult moments, they are often left feeling helpless and alone. That’s why the Life & Hope Network’s 24/7 Crisis Lifeline exists: to connect at-risk patients and families with experienced medical and legal advocates who can help protect their loved ones and pursue the best possible outcome in a time of crisis.
If you or a family member is at-risk, contact us for assistance:
- Call: 1 (855) 300-HOPE (4673)
- Email: [email protected]
- Click Here for 24/7 Crisis Lifeline Questionnaire!
Patient & Family Advocacy
Every patient and family deserves the strongest, most life-affirming advocacy they can get. For every few great physicians, medical institutions, and insurance companies that do provide excellent care, there are others who do not serve patients and families in a manner consistent with their human dignity. We can step in to be the advocate that a patient or family is missing, helping navigate a crisis medical situation in a positive, life-affirming way.
Attorney & Physician Crisis Referrals
There are times when advocacy alone is not enough to uphold the human dignity of an at-risk patient. The Life & Hope Network can step in to understand the basics of the situation in order to provide first-rate referrals to life-affirming attorneys and physicians willing to liaise with relevant physicians, medical institutions, and insurance companies to foster a positive outcome for those at-risk.
Spiritual & Emotional Support
It's often surprisingly true that, "where there's a will, there's a way." It's with this in mind that the Life & Hope Network offers spiritual and emotional support to patients and families in their time of crisis, helping bolster the will to fight for life, and for life-affirming outcomes in the face of sometimes difficult prognoses. Faith as well as simple friendship can be the rock upon which an improbable personal recovery is built.
Advanced Directive Guidance
There are two main types of Advance Directives. There are "Living Wills", which can be a potentially dangerous document. The other is a "Durable Power Attorney for Health Care", a much better document, which appoints someone of your choice who will ensure your life-affirming wishes are respected in moments of crisis. The Life & Hope Network provides guidance for setting up the most durable, reliable forms of Advanced Directives, and equips patients and families with total knowledge about the strengths and weaknesses of these documents. Go to Healthcare Advocacy and Leadership Organization (HALO) for more information.
Ethical Guidance
Whether your or a loved one is facing an unexpected, potentially life-or-death set of decisions about medical care the Life & Hope Network serves through ethical guidance for life-affirming care. In this way, we serve families who have to consider potentially life-saving or death-hastening decisions on behalf of an incapacitated loved one.