Improving access and practices relating to portable orders for life-sustaining treatment.
Life-Sustaining Treatment Minors Parent Rights
Life-sustaining treatment provision for unemancipated minor patients
Life-sustaining treatment for unemancipated minor patients provided.
Relating to advance directives and health care and treatment decisions to withhold or withdraw life-sustaining treatment; creating a criminal offense.
Provider Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment Program Act establishment, certain acts immunity establishment, and appropriation
A bill for an act relating to health care decisions related to palliative care, hospice programs, life-sustaining procedures, and out-of-hospital do-not-resuscitate orders.(See HF 2305.)
Commissioner of health required to establish a provider orders for life-sustaining treatment program, rulemaking authorized, data classified, immunity established for certain acts, and money appropriated.
Nurse practitioners; authorize certain to sign physician orders for sustaining treatment (POST).
In health care, further providing for applicability, for definitions, for criminal penalties, for emergency medical services, for definitions, for orders, bracelets and necklaces, for revocation, for absence of order, bracelet or necklace and for emergency medical services, repealing provisions relating to advisory committee and providing for discontinuance and for Pennsylvania orders for life-sustaining treatment.