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NJ Rev Stat § 26:2H-132.2 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:2H-132.2 - Requirements for certain facilities concerning end-of-life care.

26:2H-132.2 Requirements for certain facilities concerning end-of-life care.  1. a. Assisted living facilities, dementia care homes, nursing homes, assisted living residences, comprehensive personal care homes, residential health care facilities, hospitals, and long-term care facilities licensed pursuant to P.L.1971, c.136 (C.26:2H-1 et seq.) shall:  (1) require all administrative personnel and professional staff to complete an annual training on advance care planning, end-of-life care, and the use of advance directives and Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) forms; (2) provide patients and residents, and their families, as appropriate, with educational materials on POLST forms, advance directives, and hospice and palliative care; and (3) develop and implement policies to identify and address end-of-life care issues for patients and residents upon admission to the facility. b. The Department of Health shall: (1) issue a training manual via regulation to establish uniform policies and procedures that a facility, at a minimum, shall follow in order to comply with the requirements outlined in subsection a. of this section. A facility may implement policies and procedures beyond those issued in the department's manual, provided that such policies and procedures do not conflict with the department's regulations; and  (2) require a facility that fails to comply with the provisions of this section to submit a plan of corrective action to the department for approval, and may impose additional penalties or administrative disciplinary action as shall be prescribed by the Commissioner of Health by regulation. L.2019, c.420, s.1.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:2H-133 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:2H-133 - Designation of Patient safety organization; responsibilities.

26:2H-133 Designation of Patient safety organization; responsibilities.  5. The Commissioner of Health shall designate a patient safety organization (PSO) operating in this State pursuant to the federal "Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005," Pub.L.109-41, to carry out the following responsibilities, by mutual written agreement of the commissioner and that PSO: a. prescribe a POLST form and the procedures for completion, modification, and revocation of the form; b. seek to promote awareness among health care professionals, emergency care providers, and the general public in this State about the option to complete a POLST form; c. provide ongoing training of health care professionals and emergency care providers about the use of the POLST form, in consultation with organizations representing, and educational programs serving, health care professionals and emergency care providers, respectively, in this State; d. prescribe additional requirements for the completion of a POLST form that may be applicable in the case of a patient with mental illness or a developmental disability in consultation with organizations that represent persons with mental illness and developmental disabilities, respectively; e. provide for ongoing evaluation of the design and use of POLST forms through the use of such data as the PSO determines reasonably necessary for that purpose, subject to the commissioner's written approval; and f. seek to minimize any record-keeping burden imposed on a health care institution pursuant to this act and take such actions as are necessary to ensure the confidentiality of any data furnished to the PSO that may contain patient-specific information. L.2011, c.145, s.5; amended 2012, c.17, s.256.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:2H-134 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:2H-134 - Treatment of patient in accordance with POLST form.

26:2H-134 Treatment of patient in accordance with POLST form.  6. a. A health care professional, health care institution, or emergency care provider shall treat a patient who has a completed POLST form in accordance with the information contained therein, except as otherwise provided in this act. b. A POLST form shall be deemed to be completed, and therefore valid for the purposes of this act if it: (1) contains information indicating a patient's health care preferences; (2) has been voluntarily signed by a patient with decision-making capacity, or by the patient's representative in accordance with the patient's known preferences or in the best interests of the patient; (3) includes the signature of the patient's attending physician, physician assistant, or APN and the date of that signature; and (4) meets any other requirements to be deemed valid for the purposes of this act. c. A document executed in another state, which meets the requirements of this act for a POLST form, shall be deemed to be completed and valid for the purposes of this act to the same extent as a POLST form completed in this State. L.2011, c.145, s.6; amended 2019, c.218, s.6.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:2H-135 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:2H-135 - Modification, supersedure of POLST form.

26:2H-135 Modification, supersedure of POLST form.  7. a. If the goals of care of a patient with a completed POLST form change, the patient's attending physician, physician assistant, or APN may, after conducting an evaluation of the patient and after obtaining informed consent from the patient or, if the patient has lost decision-making capacity, the patient's representative in accordance with subsection d. of this section, issue a new order that modifies or supersedes the completed POLST form consistent with the most current information available about the patient's health status and goals of care. b. A patient with decision-making capacity, may, at any time, modify or revoke the patient's completed POLST form or otherwise request alternative treatment to the treatment that was ordered on the form. c. If the orders in a patient's completed POLST form regarding the use of any intervention specified therein conflict with the patient's more recent verbal or written directive to the patient's attending physician, physician assistant, or APN, then the physician, physician assistant, or APN shall honor the more recent directive from the patient in accordance with the provisions of subsection e. of this section. d. The POLST form shall provide the patient with the choice to authorize the patient's representative to revoke or modify the patient's completed POLST form if the patient loses decision-making capacity. If the patient so authorizes the patient's representative, the patient's representative may, at any time after the patient loses decision-making capacity and after consultation with the patient's attending physician or APN, request the physician, physician assistant, or APN to modify or revoke the completed POLST form, or otherwise request alternative treatment to the treatment that was ordered on the form, as the patient's representative deems necessary to reflect the patient's health status or goals of care. If the patient does not authorize the patient's representative to revoke or modify the patient's completed POLST form, the patient's representative may not revoke or modify the patient's completed POLST form. e. A verbal or written request by a patient or the patient's representative to modify or revoke a patient's completed POLST form, in accordance with the provisions of this section, shall be effectuated once the patient's attending physician, physician assistant, or APN has signed the POLST form attesting to that request for modification or revocation.  L.2011, c.145, s.7; amended 2019, c.218, s.7.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:2H-136 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:2H-136 - Procedure in event of disagreement.

26:2H-136 Procedure in event of disagreement.  8. a. In the event of a disagreement among the patient, the patient's representative, and the patient's attending physician, physician assistant, or APN concerning the patient's decision-making capacity or the appropriate interpretation and application of the terms of a completed POLST form to the patient's course of treatment, the parties: (1) may seek to resolve the disagreement by means of procedures and practices established by the health care institution, including, but not limited to, consultation with an institutional ethics committee, or with a person designated by the health care institution for this purpose; or (2) may seek resolution by a court of competent jurisdiction. b. A health care professional involved in the patient's care, other than the attending physician, physician assistant, or APN, or an administrator of a health care institution may also seek to resolve a disagreement concerning the patient's decision-making capacity or the appropriate interpretation and application of the terms of a completed POLST form to the patient's course of treatment in the same manner as set forth in subsection a. of this section. L.2011, c.145, s.8; amended 2019, c.218, s.8.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:2H-137 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:2H-137 - Construction of act.

26:2H-137 Construction of act.  9. Nothing in this act shall be construed to: a. abridge a patient's right to refuse treatment under either the United States Constitution or the Constitution of the State of New Jersey; b. impair the obligations of a health care professional to provide for the care and comfort of the patient and to alleviate pain, in accordance with accepted medical and nursing standards; c. impair the legal validity of a written order not to attempt cardiopulmonary resuscitation on a patient in the event that the patient suffers a cardiac or respiratory arrest, which is not part of a completed POLST form, if the order was signed by a physician prior to or after the effective date of this act and would be deemed valid under State law or regulation in effect prior to the date of enactment of this act; d. require a health care professional, health care institution, or emergency care provider to participate in the beginning, continuing, withholding, or withdrawing of health care in a manner contrary to law or accepted medical standards; e. require a private, religiously-affiliated health care institution to participate in the withholding or withdrawing of specified measures utilized to sustain life in a manner contrary to any of its written institutional policies and practices, except that the health care institution shall, with respect to a patient with a completed POLST form: (1) properly communicate its institutional policies and practices to the patient, or to the patient's representative as applicable, prior to or upon the patient's admission, or as soon after admission as is practicable; and (2) if its institutional policies and practices appear to conflict with the patient's legal rights, attempt to resolve the conflict and, if a mutually satisfactory accommodation cannot be reached, take all reasonable steps to effect the appropriate, timely, and respectful transfer of the patient to the care of another health care institution appropriate to the patient's needs, and assure that the patient is not abandoned or treated disrespectfully; or f. revoke, restrict, or otherwise alter a patient's documented designation as a donor pursuant to P.L.2008, c.50 (C.26:6-77 et al.). L.2011, c.145, s.9.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:2H-138 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:2H-138 - Immunity from liability.

26:2H-138 Immunity from liability.  10. a. A patient's representative shall not be subject to criminal or civil liability for any action taken by that individual to carry out the terms of a completed POLST form that is performed in good faith and in accordance with the provisions of this act. b. A health care professional shall not be subject to criminal or civil liability or to discipline by a health care institution or the applicable State licensing board for professional misconduct for any action taken by the health care professional to carry out the terms of a completed POLST form that is performed in good faith and in accordance with the provisions of this act. c. A health care institution shall not be subject to criminal or civil liability for any action taken by the institution to carry out the terms of a completed POLST form that is performed in good faith and in accordance with the provisions of this act. d. An emergency care provider shall not be subject to criminal or civil liability or to discipline by a health care institution or any other entity for professional misconduct for any action taken by the provider to carry out the terms of a completed POLST form that is performed in good faith and in accordance with the provisions of this act. e. The withholding or withdrawing of life-sustaining treatment pursuant to a completed POLST form, when performed in good faith and in accordance with the terms of that form and the provisions of this act, shall not constitute homicide, suicide, assisted suicide, or active euthanasia. L.2011, c.145, s.10.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:2H-139 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:2H-139 - Intentional failure to act, penalties, degree of crime.

26:2H-139 Intentional failure to act, penalties, degree of crime.  11. a. A health care professional who intentionally fails to act in accordance with the requirements of this act is subject to discipline for professional misconduct pursuant to section 8 of P.L.1978, c.73 (C.45:1-21). b. A health care institution that intentionally fails to act in accordance with the requirements of this act shall be liable to a civil penalty of not more than $1,000 for each offense. For the purposes of this subsection, each violation shall constitute a separate offense. The civil penalty shall be collected in a summary proceeding, brought in the name of the State in a court of competent jurisdiction pursuant to the "Penalty Enforcement Law of 1999," P.L.1999, c.274 (C.2A:58-10 et seq.). c. An emergency care provider subject to regulation by the Department of Health who intentionally fails to act in accordance with the requirements of this act is subject to such disciplinary measures as the commissioner deems necessary and within his statutory authority to impose. d. A person who commits any of the following acts is guilty of a crime of the fourth degree: (1) willfully concealing, canceling, defacing, obliterating, or withholding personal knowledge of a completed POLST form or a modification or revocation thereof, without the patient's consent; (2) falsifying or forging a completed POLST form or a modification or revocation thereof of another person; (3) coercing or fraudulently inducing the completion of a POLST form or a modification or revocation thereof; or (4) requiring or prohibiting the completion of a POLST form or a modification or revocation thereof as a condition of coverage under any policy of health or life insurance or an annuity, or a public benefits program, or as a condition of the provision of health care. e. The commission of an act identified in paragraph (1), (2), or (3) of subsection d. of this section, which results in the involuntary earlier death of a patient, shall constitute a crime of the first degree. f. The provisions of this section shall not be construed to repeal any sanctions applicable under any other law. L.2011, c.145, s.11; amended 2012, c.17, s.257.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:2H-140 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:2H-140 - Ensurance of compliance.

26:2H-140 Ensurance of compliance.  12. The commissioner may take such actions to ensure compliance with the provisions of sections 1 through 11 of this act by the patient safety organization designated pursuant to section 5 of this act, by any health care facility licensed pursuant to P.L.1971, c.136 (C.26:2H-1 et seq.), and by any emergency care provider subject to regulation by the department, as the commissioner deems necessary and within his statutory authority to effectuate the purposes of this act. L.2011, c.145, s.12.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:2H-141 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:2H-141 - Short title.

26:2H-141 Short title.  1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Children's Sudden Cardiac Events Reporting Act." L.2013, c.143,s.1.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:2H-142 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:2H-142 - Findings, declarations relative to children's sudden cardiac events.

26:2H-142 Findings, declarations relative to children's sudden cardiac events.  2. The Legislature finds and declares that: a. A great deal of information is needed by schools and communities throughout New Jersey in order to improve the survival of children who experience sudden cardiac events; b. The collection of relevant data and the documentation of sudden cardiac event outcomes are essential for policymakers and health care professionals to determine the most effective allocation of personnel, training, equipment, and resources to save the greatest number of lives; and  c. It is in the public interest to implement such measures as are necessary to provide for the collection of children's sudden cardiac event data and to establish a Statewide database that will inform the efforts of schools, families, policymakers, and health care professionals to improve children's sudden cardiac event prevention and survival. L.2013, c.143, s.2.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:2H-143 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:2H-143 - Definitions relative to children's sudden cardiac events.

26:2H-143 Definitions relative to children's sudden cardiac events.  3. As used in this act: "Child" means a child who is under 19 years of age. "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Health. "Department" means the Department of Health. "Health care professional" means a physician or registered professional nurse licensed to practice in this State. "Registry" means the Children's Sudden Cardiac Events Registry established pursuant to this act. "Sudden cardiac event" means a death or aborted death due to a cardiac arrhythmia resulting in loss of consciousness requiring cardiopulmonary resuscitation, defibrillation, or other advanced life support measures to regain normal heart function. L.2013, c.143,s.3.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:2H-144 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:2H-144 - Report to department.

26:2H-144 Report to department.  4. a. A health care professional who makes the diagnosis of a sudden cardiac event in a child, or who makes the actual determination and pronouncement of death for a child, as applicable, shall report the sudden cardiac event to the department on a form and in a manner prescribed by the commissioner. b. The report shall be in writing and shall include the name and address of the health care professional submitting the report, the name, age, and address of the child, and other pertinent information as may be required by the commissioner; except that, if the child's parent or guardian objects to the reporting of the child's condition for any reason, the report shall not include any information that could be used to identify the child. c. The commissioner shall specify procedures for the health care professional to inform the child's parent or guardian of the requirements of subsections a. and b. of this section and the purpose served by including this information in the registry, as well as the parent's or guardian's right to refuse to permit the reporting of any information that could be used to identify the child. L.2013, c.143, s.4.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:2H-145 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:2H-145 - Children's Sudden Cardiac Events Registry.

26:2H-145 Children's Sudden Cardiac Events Registry.  5. a. The department shall establish and maintain an up-to-date Children's Sudden Cardiac Events Registry, which shall include a record of all sudden cardiac events that are reported pursuant to this act and any other information that the department deems relevant and appropriate in order to effectuate the purposes of this act. b. The reports made pursuant to this act shall be used only by the department and other agencies as may be designated by the commissioner, and shall not otherwise be divulged or made public so as to disclose the identity of any person to whom they relate. To that end, the reports shall not be included under materials available to public inspections pursuant to P.L.1963, c.73 (C.47:1A-1 et seq.) or P.L.2001, c.404 (C.47:1A-5 et al.). c. A health care professional providing information to the department pursuant to this act shall not be deemed to be, or held liable for, divulging confidential information. d. Nothing in this act shall be construed to compel a child to submit to medical or health examination or supervision by the department. L.2013, c.143,s.5.