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2000 SESSION

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HB 1367 Health care decisions.

Introduced by: H. Morgan Griffith | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS PASSED: (all summaries)

Health care decisions. Requires, in those instances in which a physician determines the terms of an advance directive of a qualified patient or the treatment decision of a person designated to make the decision on the treatment to be medically or ethically inappropriate, that the physician make reasonable effort to inform the patient or the patient's designated decision-maker of such determination and the reasons for the determination. If the conflict remains unresolved, the physician must make a reasonable effort to transfer the patient to another physician who is willing to comply with the terms of the advance directive. The physician must provide the patient or his authorized decision-maker a reasonable time of not less than 14 days to effect such transfer and must continue to provide, during this period, any life-sustaining care to the patient that is reasonably available to him, as requested by the patient or his designated decision-maker; however, the physician is not required to provide treatment that he is physically or legally unable to provide or treatment that he is physically or legally unable to provide without denying the same treatment to another patient. "Life-sustaining care" is defined as "any ongoing medical treatment that utilizes mechanical or other artificial means to sustain, restore or supplant a spontaneous vital function, including hydration, nutrition, maintenance medication, and cardiopulmonary resuscitation."


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