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Hospitals Now Must Contact Next of Kin
Chicago Tribune March 23, 2001
Months after covering the effort to change the law, Chicago media reported the result: Illinois had enacted legislation requiring hospitals to make efforts to contact next of kin when a patient cannot communicate.
Why we're preserving it:
This article captures the Next of Kin effort while the Illinois legislation was still moving through the legislature before anyone knew whether the family's campaign would succeed.
This article captures the Next of Kin effort while the Illinois legislation was still moving through the legislature before anyone knew whether the family's campaign would succeed.
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