Advance health care directive of a skilled nursing facility patient.

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Advance health care directive of a skilled nursing facility patient.

SB 1189, as amended, Valladares.

What This Bill Does

• SB 1189, as amended, Valladares.
• Advance health care directive of a skilled nursing facility patient.
• Existing law, the Health Care Decisions Law, provides for the creation, form, and revocation of advance health care directives, and authorizes an adult having capacity to give an individual health care instruction.
• Under existing law, the advance health care directive of a patient in a skilled nursing facility is not effective unless a patient advocate or ombudsperson ombudsman signs the advance directive as a witness and declares that they are serving as a witness pursuant to this requirement.

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Official Summary Text

SB 1189, as amended, Valladares.
Advance health care directive of a skilled nursing facility patient.
Existing law, the Health Care Decisions Law, provides for the creation, form, and revocation of advance health care directives, and authorizes an adult having capacity to give an individual health care instruction. Under existing law, the advance health care directive of a patient in a skilled nursing facility is not effective unless a patient advocate or
ombudsperson
ombudsman
signs the advance directive as a witness and declares that they are serving as a witness pursuant to this requirement. Existing law authorizes a witness who is a patient advocate or
ombudsperson
ombudsman
to rely on the representations of the administrators or staff of the skilled nursing facility, or of family members, as convincing evidence of the identity of the patient, as specified.
This bill would delete a patient advocate from the above-described witness duties, thus requiring that an
ombudsperson
ombudsman
witness the advance health care directive of a patient in a skilled nursing facility.

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