CHAPTER 3. Health Care Surrogates

Chapter 3 added by Stats. 1999, Ch. 658, Sec. 39.

§§ 4711–4717 · 6 sections

• § 4711 (a) A patient may designate an adult as a surrogate to make health care decisions by personally informing the supervising health care provider or a designee of…
• § 4712 (a) If a patient lacks the capacity to make a health care decision, the following legally recognized health care decisionmakers may make health care decisions…
• § 4714 A surrogate, including a person acting as a surrogate, shall make a health care decision in accordance with the patient’s individual health care instructions,…
• § 4715 A patient having capacity at any time may disqualify another person, including a member of the patient’s family, from acting as the patient’s surrogate by a…
• § 4716 (a) If a patient lacks the capacity to make a health care decision, the patient’s domestic partner shall have the same authority as a spouse has to make a…
• § 4717 (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, within 24 hours of the arrival in the emergency department of a general acute care hospital of a patient who is…