West Virginia Code
Article 30. West Virginia Health Care Decisions Act
§16-30-1. Short Title

West Virginia Code

Chapter 16. Public Health

Article 30. West Virginia Health Care Decisions Act

§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