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UNOFFICIAL 1736-9 refusing or accepting treatment if they are or become incapacitated.
(b)Providers must offer written information as well as…#
(b) Providers must offer written information as well as summaries of pertinent institutional policies to all adult patients regarding their rights under State laws to accept or refuse treatment and to make advance directives. (1) An advance directive is a document that is written in advance of an incapacitating illness that state a patient's choices about treatment, or name someone to make such choices, if the patient becomes unable to make decisions. (2) Through advance directives such as living wills and durable powers of attorney for health care, patients will be able to make
legally valid decisions about their future medical treatment. (3) The patient's medical record must be documented to indicate whether the patient has an advance directive.
(c)Institutions may not discriminate against or condition…#
(c) Institutions may not discriminate against or condition care provided to a patient on the basis of whether the patient has, or has not, executed an advance directive.