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Chapter 16
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West Virginia Health Care Decisions Act.
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16-30-1
Short title.
16-30-2
Legislative findings and purpose.
16-30-3
Definitions.
16-30-4
Executing a living will, medical power of attorney, or combined medical power of attorney and living will.
16-30-5
Applicability and resolving actual conflict between advance directives.
16-30-6
Private decision-making process; authority of living will, medical power of attorney representative and surrogate.
16-30-7
Determination of incapacity.
16-30-8
Selection of a surrogate.
16-30-9
Medical power of attorney representative and health care surrogate decision-making standards.
16-30-10
Reliance on authority of living will; physician orders for scope of treatment form, medical power of attorney representative or surrogate decisionmaker; and protection of health care providers.
16-30-11
Negligence.
16-30-12
Conscience objections.
16-30-13
Interinstitutional transfers.
16-30-14
Insurance.
16-30-15
Withholding of life support not assisted suicide or murder.
16-30-16
Preservation of existing rights and relation to existing law; no presumption.
16-30-17
No abrogation of common law doctrine of medical necessity.
16-30-18
Revocation.
16-30-19
Physician’s duty to confirm, communicate, and document terminal condition; medical record identification.
16-30-20
Living wills previously executed.
16-30-21
Reciprocity.
16-30-22
Liability for failure to act in accordance with the directives of a living will or medical power of attorney or the directions of a medical power of attorney representative or health care surrogate.
16-30-23
Prohibition.
16-30-24
Need for a second opinion regarding incapacity for persons with psychiatric mental illness, intellectual disability or addiction.
16-30-25
Portable orders for scope of treatment form.