Section 1. That sections 2133.02, 2133.21, 2133.211, 2133.23, | 13 |
2133.24, 2133.25, 2133.26, 3795.03, and 4730.09 be amended; | 14 |
sections 2133.211 (2133.23), 2133.23 (2133.24), 2133.24 (2133.25), | 15 |
2133.25 (2133.26), and 2133.26 (2133.27) be amended for the | 16 |
purpose of adopting new section numbers as indicated in | 17 |
parentheses; and new section 2133.22 and sections 2133.28, | 18 |
2133.29, 2133.30, 2133.31, 2133.32, 2133.33, 2133.34, 2133.35, | 19 |
2133.36, 2133.37, 2133.38, 2133.39, 2133.40, 2133.41, 2133.42, | 20 |
2133.43, 2133.44, 2133.45, 2133.46, and 2133.47 of the Revised | 21 |
Code be enacted to read as follows: | 22 |
Sec. 2133.02. (A)(1) An adult who is of sound mind | 23 |
voluntarily may execute at any time a declaration governing the | 24 |
use or continuation, or the withholding or withdrawal, of | 25 |
life-sustaining treatment. The declaration shall be signed at the | 26 |
end by the declarant or by another individual at the direction of | 27 |
the declarant, state the date of its execution, and either be | 28 |
witnessed as described in division (B)(1) of this section or be | 29 |
acknowledged by the declarant in accordance with division (B)(2) | 30 |
of this section. The declaration may include a designation by the | 31 |
declarant of one or more persons who are to be notified by the | 32 |
declarant's attending physician at any time that life-sustaining | 33 |
treatment would be withheld or withdrawn pursuant to the | 34 |
declaration. The declaration may include a specific authorization | 35 |
for the use or continuation or the withholding or withdrawal of | 36 |
CPR, but the failure to include a specific authorization for the | 37 |
withholding or withdrawal of CPR does not preclude the withholding | 38 |
or withdrawal of CPR in accordance with sections 2133.01 to | 39 |
2133.15 or sections 2133.21 to 2133.262133.29 of the Revised | 40 |
Code. | 41 |
(2) Depending upon whether the declarant intends the | 42 |
declaration to apply when the declarant is in a terminal | 43 |
condition, in a permanently unconscious state, or in either a | 44 |
terminal condition or a permanently unconscious state, the | 45 |
declarant's declaration shall use either or both of the terms | 46 |
"terminal condition" and "permanently unconscious state" and shall | 47 |
define or otherwise explain those terms in a manner that is | 48 |
substantially consistent with the provisions of section 2133.01 of | 49 |
the Revised Code. | 50 |
(3)(a) If a declarant who has authorized the withholding or | 51 |
withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment intends that the | 52 |
declarant's attending physician withhold or withdraw nutrition or | 53 |
hydration when the declarant is in a permanently unconscious state | 54 |
and when the nutrition and hydration will not or no longer will | 55 |
serve to provide comfort to the declarant or alleviate the | 56 |
declarant's pain, then the declarant shall authorize the | 57 |
declarant's attending physician to withhold or withdraw nutrition | 58 |
or hydration when the declarant is in the permanently unconscious | 59 |
state by doing both of the following in the declaration: | 60 |
(i) Including a statement in capital letters or other | 61 |
conspicuous type, including, but not limited to, a different font, | 62 |
bigger type, or boldface type, that the declarant's attending | 63 |
physician may withhold or withdraw nutrition and hydration if the | 64 |
declarant is in a permanently unconscious state and if the | 65 |
declarant's attending physician and at least one other physician | 66 |
who has examined the declarant determine, to a reasonable degree | 67 |
of medical certainty and in accordance with reasonable medical | 68 |
standards, that nutrition or hydration will not or no longer will | 69 |
serve to provide comfort to the declarant or alleviate the | 70 |
declarant's pain, or checking or otherwise marking a box or line | 71 |
that is adjacent to a similar statement on a printed form of a | 72 |
declaration; | 73 |
(B)(1) If witnessed for purposes of division (A) of this | 83 |
section, a declaration shall be witnessed by two individuals as | 84 |
described in this division in whose presence the declarant, or | 85 |
another individual at the direction of the declarant, signed the | 86 |
declaration. The witnesses to a declaration shall be adults who | 87 |
are not related to the declarant by blood, marriage, or adoption, | 88 |
who are not the attending physician of the declarant, and who are | 89 |
not the administrator of any nursing home in which the declarant | 90 |
is receiving care. Each witness shall subscribe the witness' | 91 |
signature after the signature of the declarant or other individual | 92 |
at the direction of the declarant and, by doing so, attest to the | 93 |
witness' belief that the declarant appears to be of sound mind and | 94 |
not under or subject to duress, fraud, or undue influence. The | 95 |
signatures of the declarant or other individual at the direction | 96 |
of the declarant under division (A) of this section and of the | 97 |
witnesses under this division are not required to appear on the | 98 |
same page of the declaration. | 99 |
(D)(1) Subject to division (D)(2) of this section, an | 111 |
attending physician of a declarant or a health care facility in | 112 |
which a declarant is confined may refuse to comply or allow | 113 |
compliance with the declarant's declaration on the basis of a | 114 |
matter of conscience or on another basis. An employee or agent of | 115 |
an attending physician of a declarant or of a health care facility | 116 |
in which a declarant is confined may refuse to comply with the | 117 |
declarant's declaration on the basis of a matter of conscience. | 118 |
(2) If an attending physician of a declarant or a health care | 119 |
facility in which a declarant is confined is not willing or not | 120 |
able to comply or allow compliance with the declarant's | 121 |
declaration, the physician or facility promptly shall so advise | 122 |
the declarant and comply with the provisions of section 2133.10 of | 123 |
the Revised Code, or, if the declaration has become operative as | 124 |
described in division (A) of section 2133.03 of the Revised Code, | 125 |
shall comply with the provisions of section 2133.10 of the Revised | 126 |
Code. | 127 |
(2) That the attending physician of the person who is named | 156 |
on and possesses the card, form, necklace, or bracelet has issued | 157 |
a current do-not-resuscitate order, in accordance with the | 158 |
do-not-resuscitate protocol adopted by the department of health | 159 |
pursuant to section 2133.25 of the Revised Code, for that person | 160 |
and has documented the grounds for the order in that person's | 161 |
medical record.; | 162 |
(F)(G) "Emergency medical services personnel" means paid or | 176 |
volunteer firefighters,; law enforcement officers,; medical | 177 |
technicians; any of the following, as defined in section 4765.01 | 178 |
of the Revised Code: first responders, emergency medical | 179 |
technicians-basic, emergency medical technicians-intermediate, or | 180 |
emergency medical technicians-paramedic, medical technicians,; or | 181 |
other emergency services personnel acting within the ordinary | 182 |
course of their profession. | 183 |
Sec. 2133.211. Sec. 2133.23. A person who holds a certificate of | 197 |
authority to practice as a certified nurse practitioner or, | 198 |
clinical nurse specialist issued under section 4723.42 of the | 199 |
Revised Code, or physician assistant may take any action that may | 200 |
be taken by an attending physician under sections 2133.212133.22 | 201 |
to
2133.262133.29 of the Revised Code and has the immunity | 202 |
provided by section 2133.222133.29 of the Revised Code if, as | 203 |
applicable, the action is taken pursuant to a standard care | 204 |
arrangement with a collaborating physician, a physician | 205 |
supervisory plan approved under section 4730.17 of the Revised | 206 |
Code, or the policies of the health care facility in which the | 207 |
physician assistant is practicing. | 208 |
Sec. 2133.23. Sec. 2133.24. (A) If emergency medical services | 209 |
personnel, other than physicians, are presented with DNR | 210 |
identification possessed by a person or are presented with a | 211 |
written do-not-resuscitate order for a person or if a physician | 212 |
directly issues to emergency medical services personnel, other | 213 |
than physicians, an oral do-not-resuscitate order for a person, | 214 |
the emergency medical services personnel shall comply with the | 215 |
do-not-resuscitate protocol for the person. If an oral | 216 |
do-not-resuscitate order is issued by a physician who is not | 217 |
present at the scene, the emergency medical services personnel | 218 |
shall verify the physician's identityinstructions signified by | 219 |
the DNR identification or in the do-not-resuscitate order. | 220 |
(B) If a person possesses DNR identification and if the | 221 |
person's attending physician or the health care facility in which | 222 |
the person is located is unwilling or unable to comply with the | 223 |
do-not-resuscitate protocol for the personinstructions signified | 224 |
by the person's DNR identification or in the do-not-resuscitate | 225 |
order, the attending physician or the health care facility shall | 226 |
not prevent or attempt to prevent, or unreasonably delay or | 227 |
attempt to delay, the transfer of the person to a different | 228 |
physician who will follow the protocolinstructions or to a | 229 |
different health care facility in which the
protocol | 230 |
instructions will be followed.
| 231 |
(C) If a person whobeing transferred from one health care | 232 |
facility to another possesses DNR identification or for whom a | 233 |
current, has executed a declaration, or is the subject of a | 234 |
do-not-resuscitate order that has been issued is being transferred | 235 |
from one health care facility to another, before or at the time of | 236 |
the transfer, the transferring health care facility shall notify | 237 |
the receiving health care facility and the persons transporting | 238 |
the person of the existence of the DNR identification or the | 239 |
order, declaration, or do-not-resuscitate order. The notice shall | 240 |
be given before or at the time of the transfer. If a current | 241 |
do-not-resuscitate order was issued orally, it shall be reduced to | 242 |
writing before the time of the transfer. The DNR identification or | 243 |
the order, declaration, or do-not-resuscitate order shall | 244 |
accompany the person to the receiving health care facility and | 245 |
shall remain in effect unless it is revoked or unless, in the case | 246 |
of a do-not-resuscitate order, the order no longer is current. | 247 |
Sec. 2133.24. Sec. 2133.25. (A) The death of a person resulting | 254 |
from the withholding or withdrawal of CPR forfrom the person | 255 |
pursuant to the do-not-resuscitate protocol and in the | 256 |
circumstances described in section 2133.22 of the Revised Code or | 257 |
in accordance with division (A) of section 2133.23 of the Revised | 258 |
Codeinstructions in a declaration executed by the person, a | 259 |
do-not-resuscitate order that has been issued for the person, or | 260 |
pursuant to instructions that form the basis of the person's DNR | 261 |
identification does not constitute for any purpose a suicide, | 262 |
aggravated murder, murder, or any other homicide. | 263 |
(B)(1) If a person has executed a declaration, a | 264 |
do-not-resuscitate order has been issued for the person, or the | 265 |
person possesses DNR identification or if a current | 266 |
do-not-resuscitate order has been issued for a person, the | 267 |
existence of the declaration, do-not-resuscitate order, or the | 268 |
possession
or orderof the DNR identification shall not do either | 269 |
of the following: | 270 |
(2) Notwithstanding any term of a policy of life insurance or | 277 |
annuity to the contrary, the withholding or withdrawal of CPR from | 278 |
a person who is insured or covered under the policy or annuity and | 279 |
who possesses DNR identification or for whom a current | 280 |
do-not-resuscitate order has been issued, in accordance with | 281 |
sections 2133.21 to 2133.26 of the Revised Code, who has executed | 282 |
a declaration, or for whom a do-not-resuscitate order has been | 283 |
issued shall not impair or invalidate any policy of life insurance | 284 |
or annuity. | 285 |
(4) No physician, health care facility, other health care | 299 |
provider, person authorized to engage in the business of insurance | 300 |
in this state under Title XXXIX of the Revised Code, health | 301 |
insuring corporation, other health care benefit plan, legal entity | 302 |
that is self-insured and provides benefits to its employees or | 303 |
members, or other person shall require an individual to possess | 304 |
DNR identification, execute a declaration, or have a | 305 |
do-not-resuscitate order issued, or shall require an individual to | 306 |
revoke or refrain from possessing DNR identification, as a | 307 |
condition of being insured or of receiving health care benefits or | 308 |
services. | 309 |
Sec. 2133.25. Sec. 2133.26. (A) The department of health, by rule | 329 |
adopted pursuant to Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, shall adopt | 330 |
a standardized method of procedure for the withholding of CPR by | 331 |
physicians, emergency medical services personnel, and health care | 332 |
facilities in accordance with sections 2133.21 to 2133.26 of the | 333 |
Revised Code. The standardized method shall specify criteria for | 334 |
determining when a do-not-resuscitate order issued by a physician | 335 |
is current. The standardized method so adopted shall be the | 336 |
"do-not-resuscitate protocol" for purposes of sections 2133.21 to | 337 |
2133.26 of the Revised Code. The department also shall approve one | 338 |
or more standard forms of DNR identification to be used throughout | 339 |
this state and shall specify one or more procedures for revoking | 340 |
the forms of identification. | 341 |
(B) The department of health shall adopt rules in accordance | 342 |
with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code for the administration of | 343 |
sections 2133.21 to 2133.26 of the Revised CodeThe | 344 |
do-not-resuscitate protocol adopted by the department in rules | 345 |
adopted under former section 2133.25 of the Revised Code are | 346 |
effective only for do-not-resuscitate orders issued on a date that | 347 |
is not later than six months after the effective date of this | 348 |
amendment. The criteria for determining when a do-not-resuscitate | 349 |
order is current apply only to orders issued before that date. | 350 |
(5) No person who has personal knowledge that another person | 394 |
has revoked a declaration that is the basis of the other person's | 395 |
DNR identification or personal knowledge that a physician has | 396 |
issued an order that supersedes a do-not-resuscitate order that | 397 |
the physician issued for another personNeither of the following | 398 |
shall purposely conceal or withhold that personal knowledge with | 399 |
the intent to cause the use, withholding, or withdrawal of CPR for | 400 |
the other person: | 401 |
Sec. 2133.28. (A) None of the following shall be subject to | 412 |
criminal prosecution, liability in damages in a tort or other | 413 |
civil action for injury, death, or loss to person or property, or | 414 |
professional disciplinary action arising out of or relating to the | 415 |
withholding or withdrawal of CPR from a person after DNR | 416 |
identification is discovered in the person's possession and | 417 |
reasonable efforts have been made to determine that the person in | 418 |
possession of the DNR identification is the person named on the | 419 |
identification, if the withholding or withdrawal is in accordance | 420 |
with the instructions signified by the DNR identification: | 421 |
(B) If, after DNR identification is discovered in the | 434 |
possession of a person, the person makes an oral or written | 435 |
request to receive CPR, any person who provides CPR pursuant to | 436 |
the request, any health care facility in which CPR is provided, | 437 |
and the administrator of any health care facility in which CPR is | 438 |
provided are not subject to criminal prosecution as a result of | 439 |
the provision of CPR, are not liable in damages in tort or other | 440 |
civil action for injury, death, or loss to person or property that | 441 |
arises out of or is related to the provision of CPR, and are not | 442 |
subject to professional disciplinary action as a result of the | 443 |
provision of CPR. | 444 |
Sec. 2133.29. (A) In an emergency situation, emergency | 445 |
medical services personnel are not required to search a person to | 446 |
determine if the person possesses DNR identification. If emergency | 447 |
medical services personnel or emergency department personnel | 448 |
provide CPR to a person in possession of DNR identification in an | 449 |
emergency situation, and if, at that time, the personnel do not | 450 |
know and do not have reasonable cause to believe that the person | 451 |
possesses DNR identification, the emergency medical services | 452 |
personnel and emergency department personnel are not subject to | 453 |
criminal prosecution as a result of the provision of the CPR, are | 454 |
not liable in damages in tort or other civil action for injury, | 455 |
death, or loss to person or property that arises out of or is | 456 |
related to the provision of CPR, and are not subject to | 457 |
professional disciplinary action as a result of the provision of | 458 |
CPR. | 459 |
(N) "Medical orders for life-sustaining treatment" means | 520 |
instructions, issued by a physician, physician assistant, | 521 |
certified nurse practitioner, or clinical nurse specialist, | 522 |
regarding how a patient should be treated with respect to | 523 |
hospitalization, administration or withdrawal of life-sustaining | 524 |
treatment and comfort care, administration of CPR, and other | 525 |
treatment prescribed by the Revised Code. | 526 |
This form should be reviewed periodically, such as when the | 656 |
patient is transferred from one care setting or care level to | 657 |
another or there is a substantial change in the patient's health | 658 |
status. A new MOLST form should be completed if the patient wishes | 659 |
to make a substantive change to his or her treatment goal (e.g., | 660 |
reversal of a prior directive). When completing a new form, the | 661 |
old form must be properly revoked and retained in the medical | 662 |
chart. | 663 |
|
Sec. 2133.33. A physician, physician assistant, certified | 688 |
nurse practitioner, or clinical nurse specialist may at any time | 689 |
issue medical orders for life-sustaining treatment for a patient | 690 |
by completing a MOLST form. Patients for whom medical orders for | 691 |
life-sustaining treatment are suggested, but not required, include | 692 |
those who are suffering from an illness that is in its advanced | 693 |
stages. | 694 |
Once completed and signed in accordance with sections 2133.34 | 695 |
and 2133.35 of the Revised Code, a MOLST form is valid and the | 696 |
instructions in it become operative and govern how the patient who | 697 |
is the subject of the form is to be treated with respect to | 698 |
hospitalization, administration or withdrawal of life-sustaining | 699 |
treatment and comfort care, administration of CPR, and any other | 700 |
medical treatment specified on the form. | 701 |
(B)(1) If the patient is at least eighteen years of age, | 720 |
incapacitated, has a legally effective durable power of attorney | 721 |
for health care, and is not already the subject of a valid MOLST | 722 |
form, the patient's attorney in fact under the patient's durable | 723 |
power of attorney for health care shall sign and date the form in | 724 |
the space designated for such signature and indicate the person's | 725 |
status as the patient's attorney in fact. | 726 |
(2) If the patient is at least eighteen years of age, | 727 |
incapacitated, does not have a legally effective durable power of | 728 |
attorney for health care, and is not the subject of a valid MOLST | 729 |
form, the individual or class of individuals specified in the | 730 |
descending order of priority in division (B) of section 2133.08 of | 731 |
the Revised Code, subject to division (C) of that section, shall | 732 |
sign and date the form in the space designated for such signature | 733 |
or signatures and indicate the relationship to the patient. | 734 |
Sec. 2133.35. (A) When completing a MOLST form, the form | 739 |
preparer shall discuss the instructions in the form with the | 740 |
patient or the individual or class of individuals who participate | 741 |
in the form's completion on the patient's behalf in accordance | 742 |
with division (A)(2) or (B) of section 2133.34 of the Revised | 743 |
Code. The instructions the form preparer lists on the form shall | 744 |
be consistent with the desires of that person or persons, except | 745 |
that if the patient is under eighteen years of age, the patient's | 746 |
parent, guardian, or legal custodian may not indicate instructions | 747 |
that would result in the withholding of medically indicated | 748 |
treatment, as defined in section 14 of the "Child Abuse | 749 |
Prevention, Adoption, and Family Services Act of 1988," 102 Stat. | 750 |
117 (1988), 42 U.S.C. 5106g, as amended. | 751 |
Sec. 2133.37. (A) If a patient with a MOLST form is | 762 |
transferred from one health care facility to another health care | 763 |
facility, the health care facility initiating the transfer shall | 764 |
communicate the existence of, and send a copy of, the form to the | 765 |
receiving facility prior to the transfer. The copy may be sent by | 766 |
regular mail or by facsimile or other electronic means. A copy of | 767 |
the form is the same as the original. | 768 |
Sec. 2133.38. The patient, the patient's authorized | 773 |
representative described in division (A)(2) or (B) of section | 774 |
2133.34 of the Revised Code, or, if the patient is under eighteen | 775 |
years of age, the patient's parent, guardian, or legal custodian, | 776 |
may revoke a MOLST form at any time and in any manner that | 777 |
communicates the intent to revoke. A revoked MOLST form shall be | 778 |
retained in the patient's medical record. | 779 |
Sec. 2133.40. If an emergency medical services person | 782 |
determines in an emergency situation that either of the following | 783 |
applies, the emergency medical services person shall proceed to | 784 |
treat the patient as directed, verbally or in writing, by a | 785 |
physician, or, if applicable, the cooperating physician advisory | 786 |
board of the emergency medical service organization with which the | 787 |
emergency medical services person is affiliated: | 788 |
Sec. 2133.41. (A) Subject to division (B) of this section, no | 800 |
health care facility, health care professional, emergency medical | 801 |
services person, or other individual who works for or volunteers | 802 |
at a health care facility as an employee, contractor, or volunteer | 803 |
and who is or who works or volunteers under the direction of or | 804 |
with the authorization of a physician, physician assistant, | 805 |
certified nurse practitioner, or clinical nurse specialist shall | 806 |
be subject to criminal prosecution, liable in damages in tort or | 807 |
other civil action, or subject to professional disciplinary action | 808 |
for acting in good faith and in accordance with, or otherwise | 809 |
being in compliance with, a valid MOLST form or sections 2133.31 | 810 |
to 2133.47 of the Revised Code. | 811 |
Sec. 2133.44. No physician, health care facility, other | 831 |
health care provider, person authorized to engage in the business | 832 |
of insurance in this state under Title XXXIX of the Revised Code, | 833 |
health insuring corporation, other health care benefit plan, legal | 834 |
entity that is self-insured and provides benefits to its employees | 835 |
or members, governmental entity, or other person shall require | 836 |
that an individual be the subject of a MOLST form, or require an | 837 |
individual to revoke or refrain from being the subject of a MOLST | 838 |
form, as a condition of being insured or of receiving health care | 839 |
benefits or services. | 840 |
Sec. 2133.45. (A) Subject to divisions (B) and (C) of this | 841 |
section, an attending physician of a patient or a health care | 842 |
facility in which a patient is located may refuse to comply or | 843 |
allow compliance with one or more instructions in a MOLST form on | 844 |
the basis of conscience or on another basis. An employee of an | 845 |
attending physician or of a health care facility in which a | 846 |
patient is located may refuse to comply with one or more | 847 |
instructions in a MOLST form on the basis of a matter of | 848 |
conscience. | 849 |
(B) An attending physician of a patient who, or a health care | 850 |
facility in which a patient is confined that, is not willing or | 851 |
not able to comply or allow compliance with one or more | 852 |
instructions in a MOLST form shall immediately notify the patient | 853 |
or person who has signed the MOLST form on the patient's behalf | 854 |
under section 2133.34 of the Revised Code, and shall not prevent | 855 |
or attempt to prevent, or unreasonably delay or attempt to | 856 |
unreasonably delay, the transfer of the patient to the care of a | 857 |
physician who, or a health care facility that, is willing and able | 858 |
to so comply or allow compliance. | 859 |
Sec. 2133.47. Not later than sixty months after the effective | 865 |
date of this section, the director of health shall appoint a MOLST | 866 |
task force to perform a five-year review of medical orders for | 867 |
life-sustaining treatment and the MOLST form. Task force members | 868 |
shall be, or represent, persons or government entities that have | 869 |
experience with medical orders for life-sustaining treatment or | 870 |
the MOLST form. Not later than seventy-two months after the | 871 |
effective date of this section, the task force shall submit a | 872 |
report of its findings to the general assembly in accordance with | 873 |
section 101.68 of the Revised Code. | 874 |
(A) Prohibit or preclude a physician, certified nurse | 879 |
practitioner, certified nurse-midwife, or clinical nurse | 880 |
specialist who carries out the responsibility to provide comfort | 881 |
care to a patient in good faith and while acting within the scope | 882 |
of the physician's or nurse's authority from prescribing, | 883 |
dispensing, administering, or causing to be administered any | 884 |
particular medical procedure, treatment, intervention, or other | 885 |
measure to the patient, including, but not limited to, | 886 |
prescribing, personally furnishing, administering, or causing to | 887 |
be administered by judicious titration or in another manner any | 888 |
form of medication, for the purpose of diminishing the patient's | 889 |
pain or discomfort and not for the purpose of postponing or | 890 |
causing the patient's death, even though the medical procedure, | 891 |
treatment, intervention, or other measure may appear to hasten or | 892 |
increase the risk of the patient's death; | 893 |
(B) Prohibit or preclude health care personnel acting under | 894 |
the direction of a person authorized to prescribe a patient's | 895 |
treatment and who carry out the responsibility to provide comfort | 896 |
care to the patient in good faith and while acting within the | 897 |
scope of their authority from dispensing, administering, or | 898 |
causing to be administered any particular medical procedure, | 899 |
treatment, intervention, or other measure to the patient, | 900 |
including, but not limited to, personally furnishing, | 901 |
administering, or causing to be administered by judicious | 902 |
titration or in another manner any form of medication, for the | 903 |
purpose of diminishing the patient's pain or discomfort and not | 904 |
for the purpose of postponing or causing the patient's death, even | 905 |
though the medical procedure, treatment, intervention, or other | 906 |
measure may appear to hasten or increase the risk of the patient's | 907 |
death; | 908 |
(F) Affect or limit the authority of a person to refuse to | 923 |
give informed consent to health care, including through the | 924 |
execution of a durable power of attorney for health care under | 925 |
sections 1337.11 to 1337.17 of the Revised Code, the execution of | 926 |
a declaration under sections 2133.01 to 2133.15 of the Revised | 927 |
Code, the completion of a MOLST form under sections 2133.30 to | 928 |
2133.47 of the Revised Code, or authorizing the withholding or | 929 |
withdrawal of CPR under sections 2133.21 to 2133.262133.29 of the | 930 |
Revised Code. | 931 |