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§16-30-1. Short Title - This article may be cited as the "West Virginia Health...
§16-30-2. Legislative Findings and Purpose - (a) Purpose. -- The purpose of this article is to...
§16-30-3. Definitions - For the purposes of this article: "Actual knowledge" means the...
§16-30-4. Executing a Living Will, Medical Power of Attorney, or Combined Medical Power of Attorney and Living Will - (a) Any competent adult may execute at any time a...
§16-30-5. Applicability and Resolving Actual Conflict Between Advance Directives - (a) The provisions of this article which directly conflict with...
§16-30-6. Private Decision-Making Process; Authority of Living Will, Medical Power of Attorney Representative and Surrogate - (a) Any capable adult may make his or her own...
§16-30-7. Determination of Incapacity - (a) For the purposes of this article, a person may...
§16-30-8. Selection of a Surrogate - (a) When a person is or becomes incapacitated, the attending...
§16-30-9. Medical Power of Attorney Representative and Health Care Surrogate Decision-Making Standards - (a) General standards. The medical power of attorney representative or...
§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 - (a) A physician, licensed health care professional, health care facility,...
§16-30-11. Negligence - Nothing in this article shall be deemed to protect a...
§16-30-12. Conscience Objections - (a) Health care facilities. -– Nothing in this article shall...
§16-30-13. Interinstitutional Transfers - (a) If a person admitted to any health care facility...
§16-30-14. Insurance - (a) No policy of life insurance or annuity or other...
§16-30-15. Withholding of Life Support Not Assisted Suicide or Murder - The withholding or withdrawal of life-prolonging intervention from a person...
§16-30-16. Preservation of Existing Rights and Relation to Existing Law; No Presumption - (a) The provisions of this article are cumulative with existing...
§16-30-17. No Abrogation of Common Law Doctrine of Medical Necessity - Nothing in this article shall be construed to abrogate the...
§16-30-18. Revocation - (a) A living will or medical power of attorney may...
§16-30-19. Physician S Duty to Confirm, Communicate, and Document Terminal Condition; Medical Record Identification - (a) An attending physician who has been notified of the...
§16-30-20. Living Wills Previously Executed - A living will executed prior to the effective date of...
§16-30-21. Reciprocity - A living will medical power of attorney, mental health advance...
§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 - (a) A health care provider or health care facility without...
§16-30-23. Prohibition - Under no circumstances may the presence or absence of a...
§16-30-24. Need for a Second Opinion Regarding Incapacity for Persons With Psychiatric Mental Illness, Intellectual Disability or Addiction - For persons with psychiatric mental illness, intellectual disability or addiction...
§16-30-25. Portable Orders for Scope of Treatment Form - (a) The secretary of the Department of Health and Human...