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What Are Advance Questions About An advance directive is NOT ADVANCE DIRECTIVES
Directives? Advance Directives? used to determine a patient’s
access to care, treatment,
Advance Directives are legal Call 832-534-5110 to discuss or services.
documents, known as “Directive your Advance Directives. Be sure
To Physicians” that allow you to have your Advocate with you ADVANCE DIRECTIVE FORMS
to give direction to medical when you call.
personnel, family, and friends Advance directive forms are available
concerning your future care Get more information and at CHI St. Luke’s Health–The Vintage
when you cannot speak for Advance Directives forms when Hospital Admitting Department, and
yourself or are unable to make you visit CaringInfo.org from the Texas Department of Aging and
your own decisions. According Disability Service. (www.dads.state.tx.us/
to the Texas Advance Directives beliefs. The legal document that must be news_info/publications/handbooks/index.
Act you have the legal right completed to appoint someone as your html#handbooks)
to specify what treatments decision-maker for healthcare decisions is
your would or would not the “Medical Power of Attorney.” Copies of completed advance directive
want. This right includes If you are an outpatient, we advise you to forms should be given to your physicians,
treatment decisions involving discuss your advance directive preferences healthcare facilities, family and friends.
the withholding/withdrawal with your physician. Please review your advance directive
of life-sustaining procedures In the event of cardiopulmonary arrest, all documents regularly to ensure that these
(including resuscitative outpatients will be resuscitated with two documents are current with your wishes.
measures) in the event of exceptions:
a terminal or irreversible • Honoring your healthcare
condition. You do not need a Patients who present a valid, written and decisions is important to us.
lawyer in order to complete signed Out-of-Hospital Do Not Resuscitate
advance directives. Your Order or • Ensure your wishes are
Advance Directives include: Patients who are wearing an identification followed by putting your
device approved by the State of Texas will Advance Directives in writing,
LIVING WILL not be resuscitated. and giving the document to
your healthcare providers.
A living will is a legal document that a If you change your mind about the
person uses to make known his or her healthcare decisions in your advance
instructions regarding life prolonging directive, you can revise or revoke (cancel)
medical treatments. This includes your it. Your advance directive is valid until you
wishes about CPR if your heart stops revise or revoke it. Be sure to notify your
beating, a ventilator if you stop breathing physician that you have done so.
or a feeding tube or IV if you cannot
eat or drink. Our objective is to support healthcare or
treatment decisions made by the patient (or
MEDICAL POWER OF ATTORNEY by an individual legally authorized to make
such decisions on the patient’s behalf) in
The Health Insurance Portability and accordance with accepted medical, ethical
Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) gives and legal principles and the wishes of
you the right to have one or more persons the patient, if known.
act as your representative to make decisions
about the uses and sharing of health
information about you. You can limit the
amount of information that the authorized
representative can decide about and you
can cancel this at any time. The person you
name as your decision-maker
has the authority to make any
and all healthcare decisions
for you in accordance
with your wishes and
your religious and moral
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