We all experience changes in relationships, living arrangements, and health status throughout our lives. To ensure that your advance care planning documents align with your wishes, review and update them regularly. Use the “5 Ds” to remember when to review your advance directives: Death, Divorce, Decline, Diagnosis, and Decade.
Step 1:
A completed, signed and notarized AzHDR Registration Agreement needs to be included with your new advance directives. Check the box that indicates what documents you are replacing or adding to the registry. If you would like to receive communications by email, please be sure to add your email address to the Registration Agreement along with your mailing address. Information on the agreement must be legible and clear to be accepted. You are welcome to type your responses if you prefer but the signature cannot be typed.
AzHDR Registration Agreement (English version)
AzHDR Registration Agreement (Spanish version)
Important Note:
The Arizona Healthcare Directives Registry (AzHDR) is no longer able to accept the previous Secretary of State’s Healthcare Registry Registration Agreement. Please be sure to use the AzHDR Registration Agreement when submitting your advance directive documents. Beginning, Jan. 15, 2023, any advance directives that include the former Secretary of State Registration Agreement will be returned for correction.
How to Get Your Directives Into the AzHDR Registry (1:56)
Step 2:
Be sure to send copies of your forms—not the originals. Your documents cannot be returned once they have been uploaded into the registry, so you will want to hang onto your original forms.
Important note: Please be aware that we do not accept walk-ins to drop off advance directives at our office location.
Mail your forms:
Arizona Healthcare Directives Registry – Contexture
2901 N. Central Ave., Ste. 1100
Phoenix, AZ 85012
Via AzHDR account:
Consumers can submit new or replacement advance directives using their online MADiE account . Go to Madie (azhdr.org) and log in. Using the online portal still requires a new Registration Agreement to accompany the upload.
Email your forms:
azhdr@contexture.org
Step 3:
Once Contexture has received your documents, we will review them and verify that they have been completed according to Arizona Statutes (A.R.S. §36-3224, §36.3286, §36-3232, §36.3262).
You will be sent a letter or email stating that your documents have been received and processed. If you have provided an email address on your registration agreement, communication about the AzHDR will be sent from the following email: azhdr@contexture.org
If no corrections are required, you will be provided with:
If corrections to your documents are needed, you will receive:
Step 4:
Once you have received the letter stating your documents were reviewed and no corrections were needed, no further action is required. Your advance directives will then be published in the AzHDR and available to view by participating subscribers.
You do not need to share your username and password. Agents, trusted family members, and non-subscribing medical providers can view your documents through the link/QR code on your AzHDR Wallet Card.
Your wallet card link remains the same, even when you replace previous documents. You do not need to print a new wallet card.
Important note:
Your wallet card should only be shared with trusted loved ones, caregivers and/or healthcare providers.
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Importance Notice: All email correspondence with the Arizona Healthcare Directives Registry (AzHDR) will be sent and received from a new email address: azhdr@contexture.org. Please ensure that the azhdr@contexture.org email address is added to your safe sender list to avoid any disruptions in our communication.
Complete registration agreement