2. * If a decision to withhold or withdraw life-sustaining treatment has been made pursuant to this article, and an attending physician or attending nurse practitioner determines at any time that the decision is no longer appropriate or authorized because the patient has regained decision-making capacity or because the patient's condition has otherwise improved, the physician or nurse practitioner shall immediately: * NB Effective until June 17, 2020 * If a decision to withhold or withdraw life-sustaining treatment has been made pursuant to this article, and an attending practitioner determines at any time that the decision is no longer appropriate or authorized because the patient has regained decision-making capacity or because the patient's condition has otherwise improved, the physician, nurse practitioner or physician assistant shall immediately: * NB Effective June 17, 2020

1. (a) include such determination in the patient's medical record;
2. (b) cancel any orders or plans of care implementing the decision to withhold or withdraw life-sustaining treatment;
3. (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
4. (d) notify the hospital staff directly responsible for the patient's care of any cancelled orders or plans of care.