The general assembly hereby finds, determines, and declares that: All adult persons have a fundamental right to make their own medical treatment and health-care benefit decisions, including decisions regarding medical treatment, artificial nourishment and hydration, and private or public health-care benefits; The lack of decisional capacity to provide informed consent to or refusal of medical […]
The definitions set forth in section 15-14-505 shall apply to the provisions of this article. The provisions of sections 15-14-506 to 15-14-509 shall apply to this article. In addition, proxy decision-makers, surrogate decision-makers for health-care benefits, health-care providers, and health-care facilities shall be subject to the provisions of this article. Source: L. 92: Entire article […]
A health-care provider or health-care facility may rely, in good faith, upon the medical treatment decision of a proxy decision-maker selected in accordance with subsection (4) of this section if an adult patient’s attending physician determines that such patient lacks the decisional capacity to provide informed consent to or refusal of medical treatment and no […]
A proxy decision-maker for medical treatment selected in accordance with section 15-18.5-103 or a person with the right to act as a surrogate decision-maker in a designated beneficiary agreement made pursuant to article 22 of this title shall have authority to make health-care benefit decisions on behalf of an adult patient and may be known […]
The following statutory form for certificate of appointment of surrogate decision-maker for health-care benefits is legally sufficient: CERTIFICATE OF APPOINTMENT OF A SURROGATE DECISION-MAKER FOR HEALTH-CARE BENEFITS I, (name of attending physician), the attending physician, certify that (name of person for whom decisions are being made) lacks the decisional capacity to make health-care benefit decisions. […]
