2994-K - Implementation and Review of Decisions.

NY Pub Health L § 2994-K (2019) (N/A)
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(a) include such determination in the patient's medical record;

(b) cancel any orders or plans of care implementing the decision to withhold or withdraw life-sustaining treatment;

(c) notify the person who made the decision to withhold or withdraw treatment, or, if that person is not reasonably available, to at least one person on the surrogate list highest in order of priority listed when persons in prior classes are not reasonably available pursuant to subdivision one of section twenty-nine hundred ninety-four-d of this article; and

(d) notify the hospital staff directly responsible for the patient's care of any cancelled orders or plans of care.