Laws concerning advance directives vary from state to state. If you have executed an advance directive in another state, you will also want to complete a California AHCD to ensure that you meet California's legal requirements for stating your health care wishes. For additional information see the...
California already required health care workers to be vaccinated against the coronavirus, a directive that took effect in September and has since led to the firing or suspension of thousands of people. Now it will join New Mexico as at least the second state to require booster shots for health...
But the state health department’s chief deputy director, Susan Fanelli, on Thursday told a meeting of county health officers, “We know (a directive on elective surgeries) has to be on the table.” Officials with the public health department did not respond to CalMatters’ reque...
California’s COVID Paid Sick Leave is a directive from California to employers to provide paid sick leave. The employer must fund this benefit without assistance from the state. The text of the new California law does not prohibit an employer from using the FFCRA to help offset these costs....
Health Care Directives A health care directive provides specific instructions about health care decisions in the event that you are unable to make decisions for yourself. Transfer on Death Deeds As of January 1, 2016, California allows the use of Transfer on Death Deeds as a way to transfer re...
California Advance Health Care Directive The durable power of attorney for health care can play an important role in California. It authorizes someone to make health-care decisions for you when you no longer have the capacity to make them yourself. In California, this authority can be combined ...
TheMedical Power of Attorney California(also known as an Advance Healthcare Directive) gives agents the power of talking with healthcare providers and make medical decisions, always following the instructions (outlined in aliving will) of the Principal. A Principal must have on file an incompetency...
and Marybeth as the second successor in the interest of the DPOA. In 2005, Trudy signed an advanced healthcare directive in which she named her husband as her agent-in-fact for healthcare decisions and listed her son, James Maxwell III, as the first alternate and her daughter, Marybeth,...
Since May 2009, over 500 healthcare providers have attended the 2-day POLST Train the Trainer Program learning how to effectively teach the 7 modules. The California POLST Education Program has expanded POLST education throughout the state promoting both group and individual learning and the ability...
health privacy enforcement trend and this bulletin indicates the California AG has an interest in policing notification obligations, particularly as they relate to health care providers. A number of other states have similar laws requiring entities to notify the state AG o...