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CA Prob Code § 4617 (2021)
2021 California Code|Probate Code - PROB|DIVISION 4.7 - HEALTH CARE DECISIONS|PART 1 - DEFINITIONS AND GENERAL|CHAPTER 1 - Short Title and Definitions|Section 4617.

4617.  “Health care decision” means a decision made by a patient or the patient’s agent, conservator, or surrogate, regarding the patient’s health care, including the following:(a) Selection and discharge of health care providers and institutions.(b) Approval or disapproval of diagnostic tests, surgical procedures, and programs of medication.(c) Directions to provide, withhold, or withdraw artificial nutrition and hydration and all other forms of health care, including cardiopulmonary resuscitation.(Added by Stats. 1999, Ch. 658, Sec. 39. Effective January 1, 2000. Operative July 1, 2000, by Sec. 43 of Ch. 658.)
CA Prob Code § 4619 (2021)
2021 California Code|Probate Code - PROB|DIVISION 4.7 - HEALTH CARE DECISIONS|PART 1 - DEFINITIONS AND GENERAL|CHAPTER 1 - Short Title and Definitions|Section 4619.

4619.  “Health care institution” means an institution, facility, or agency licensed, certified, or otherwise authorized or permitted by law to provide health care in the ordinary course of business.(Added by Stats. 1999, Ch. 658, Sec. 39. Effective January 1, 2000. Operative July 1, 2000, by Sec. 43 of Ch. 658.)
CA Prob Code § 4621 (2021)
2021 California Code|Probate Code - PROB|DIVISION 4.7 - HEALTH CARE DECISIONS|PART 1 - DEFINITIONS AND GENERAL|CHAPTER 1 - Short Title and Definitions|Section 4621.

4621.  “Health care provider” means an individual licensed, certified, or otherwise authorized or permitted by the law of this state to provide health care in the ordinary course of business or practice of a profession.(Added by Stats. 1999, Ch. 658, Sec. 39. Effective January 1, 2000. Operative July 1, 2000, by Sec. 43 of Ch. 658.)
CA Prob Code § 4623 (2021)
2021 California Code|Probate Code - PROB|DIVISION 4.7 - HEALTH CARE DECISIONS|PART 1 - DEFINITIONS AND GENERAL|CHAPTER 1 - Short Title and Definitions|Section 4623.

4623.  “Individual health care instruction” or “individual instruction” means a patient’s written or oral direction concerning a health care decision for the patient.(Added by Stats. 1999, Ch. 658, Sec. 39. Effective January 1, 2000. Operative July 1, 2000, by Sec. 43 of Ch. 658.)
CA Prob Code § 4625 (2021)
2021 California Code|Probate Code - PROB|DIVISION 4.7 - HEALTH CARE DECISIONS|PART 1 - DEFINITIONS AND GENERAL|CHAPTER 1 - Short Title and Definitions|Section 4625.

4625.  “Patient” means an adult whose health care is under consideration, and includes a principal under a power of attorney for health care and an adult who has given an individual health care instruction or designated a surrogate.(Added by Stats. 1999, Ch. 658, Sec. 39. Effective January 1, 2000. Operative July 1, 2000, by Sec. 43 of Ch. 658.)
CA Prob Code § 4627 (2021)
2021 California Code|Probate Code - PROB|DIVISION 4.7 - HEALTH CARE DECISIONS|PART 1 - DEFINITIONS AND GENERAL|CHAPTER 1 - Short Title and Definitions|Section 4627.

4627.  “Physician” means a physician and surgeon licensed by the Medical Board of California or the Osteopathic Medical Board of California.(Added by Stats. 1999, Ch. 658, Sec. 39. Effective January 1, 2000. Operative July 1, 2000, by Sec. 43 of Ch. 658.)
CA Prob Code § 4629 (2021)
2021 California Code|Probate Code - PROB|DIVISION 4.7 - HEALTH CARE DECISIONS|PART 1 - DEFINITIONS AND GENERAL|CHAPTER 1 - Short Title and Definitions|Section 4629.

4629.  “Power of attorney for health care” means a written instrument designating an agent to make health care decisions for the principal.(Added by Stats. 1999, Ch. 658, Sec. 39. Effective January 1, 2000. Operative July 1, 2000, by Sec. 43 of Ch. 658.)
CA Prob Code § 4631 (2021)
2021 California Code|Probate Code - PROB|DIVISION 4.7 - HEALTH CARE DECISIONS|PART 1 - DEFINITIONS AND GENERAL|CHAPTER 1 - Short Title and Definitions|Section 4631.

4631.  “Primary physician” means a physician designated by a patient or the patient’s agent, conservator, or surrogate, to have primary responsibility for the patient’s health care or, in the absence of a designation or if the designated physician is not reasonably available or declines to act as primary physician, a physician who undertakes the responsibility.(Added by Stats. 1999, Ch. 658, Sec. 39. Effective January 1, 2000. Operative July 1, 2000, by Sec. 43 of Ch. 658.)
CA Prob Code § 4633 (2021)
2021 California Code|Probate Code - PROB|DIVISION 4.7 - HEALTH CARE DECISIONS|PART 1 - DEFINITIONS AND GENERAL|CHAPTER 1 - Short Title and Definitions|Section 4633.

4633.  “Principal” means an adult who executes a power of attorney for health care.(Added by Stats. 1999, Ch. 658, Sec. 39. Effective January 1, 2000. Operative July 1, 2000, by Sec. 43 of Ch. 658.)
CA Prob Code § 4635 (2021)
2021 California Code|Probate Code - PROB|DIVISION 4.7 - HEALTH CARE DECISIONS|PART 1 - DEFINITIONS AND GENERAL|CHAPTER 1 - Short Title and Definitions|Section 4635.

4635.  “Reasonably available” means readily able to be contacted without undue effort and willing and able to act in a timely manner considering the urgency of the patient’s health care needs.(Added by Stats. 1999, Ch. 658, Sec. 39. Effective January 1, 2000. Operative July 1, 2000, by Sec. 43 of Ch. 658.)
CA Prob Code § 4637 (2021)
2021 California Code|Probate Code - PROB|DIVISION 4.7 - HEALTH CARE DECISIONS|PART 1 - DEFINITIONS AND GENERAL|CHAPTER 1 - Short Title and Definitions|Section 4637.

4637.  “Residential care facility for the elderly” means a “residential care facility for the elderly” as defined in Section 1569.2 of the Health and Safety Code.(Added by Stats. 1999, Ch. 658, Sec. 39. Effective January 1, 2000. Operative July 1, 2000, by Sec. 43 of Ch. 658.)
CA Prob Code § 4639 (2021)
2021 California Code|Probate Code - PROB|DIVISION 4.7 - HEALTH CARE DECISIONS|PART 1 - DEFINITIONS AND GENERAL|CHAPTER 1 - Short Title and Definitions|Section 4639.

4639.  “Skilled nursing facility” means a “skilled nursing facility” as defined in Section 1250 of the Health and Safety Code.(Added by Stats. 1999, Ch. 658, Sec. 39. Effective January 1, 2000. Operative July 1, 2000, by Sec. 43 of Ch. 658.)
CA Prob Code § 4641 (2021)
2021 California Code|Probate Code - PROB|DIVISION 4.7 - HEALTH CARE DECISIONS|PART 1 - DEFINITIONS AND GENERAL|CHAPTER 1 - Short Title and Definitions|Section 4641.

4641.  “Supervising health care provider” means the primary physician or, if there is no primary physician or the primary physician is not reasonably available, the health care provider who has undertaken primary responsibility for a patient’s health care.(Added by Stats. 1999, Ch. 658, Sec. 39. Effective January 1, 2000. Operative July 1, 2000, by Sec. 43 of Ch. 658.)
CA Prob Code § 4643 (2021)
2021 California Code|Probate Code - PROB|DIVISION 4.7 - HEALTH CARE DECISIONS|PART 1 - DEFINITIONS AND GENERAL|CHAPTER 1 - Short Title and Definitions|Section 4643.

4643.  “Surrogate” means an adult, other than a patient’s agent or conservator, authorized under this division to make a health care decision for the patient.(Added by Stats. 1999, Ch. 658, Sec. 39. Effective January 1, 2000. Operative July 1, 2000, by Sec. 43 of Ch. 658.)
CA Prob Code § 4650 (2021)
2021 California Code|Probate Code - PROB|DIVISION 4.7 - HEALTH CARE DECISIONS|PART 1 - DEFINITIONS AND GENERAL|CHAPTER 2 - General Provisions|Section 4650.

4650.  The Legislature finds the following:(a) In recognition of the dignity and privacy a person has a right to expect, the law recognizes that an adult has the fundamental right to control the decisions relating to his or her own health care, including the decision to have life-sustaining treatment withheld or withdrawn.(b) Modern medical technology has made possible the artificial prolongation of human life beyond natural limits. In the interest of protecting individual autonomy, this prolongation of the process of dying for a person for whom continued health care does not improve the prognosis for recovery may violate patient dignity and cause unnecessary pain and suffering, while providing nothing medically necessary or beneficial to the person.(c) In the absence of controversy, a court is normally not the proper forum in which to make health care decisions, including decisions regarding life-sustaining treatment.(Added by Stats. 1999, Ch. 658, Sec. 39. Effective January 1, 2000. Operative July 1, 2000, by Sec. 43 of Ch. 658.)
CA Prob Code § 4651 (2021)
2021 California Code|Probate Code - PROB|DIVISION 4.7 - HEALTH CARE DECISIONS|PART 1 - DEFINITIONS AND GENERAL|CHAPTER 2 - General Provisions|Section 4651.

4651.  (a) Except as otherwise provided, this division applies to health care decisions for adults who lack capacity to make health care decisions for themselves.(b) This division does not affect any of the following:(1) The right of an individual to make health care decisions while having the capacity to do so.(2) The law governing health care in an emergency.(3) The law governing health care for unemancipated minors.(Added by Stats. 1999, Ch. 658, Sec. 39. Effective January 1, 2000. Operative July 1, 2000, by Sec. 43 of Ch. 658.)
CA Prob Code § 4652 (2021)
2021 California Code|Probate Code - PROB|DIVISION 4.7 - HEALTH CARE DECISIONS|PART 1 - DEFINITIONS AND GENERAL|CHAPTER 2 - General Provisions|Section 4652.

4652.  This division does not authorize consent to any of the following on behalf of a patient:(a) Commitment to or placement in a mental health treatment facility.(b) Convulsive treatment (as defined in Section 5325 of the Welfare and Institutions Code).(c) Psychosurgery (as defined in Section 5325 of the Welfare and Institutions Code).(d) Sterilization.(e) Abortion.(Added by Stats. 1999, Ch. 658, Sec. 39. Effective January 1, 2000. Operative July 1, 2000, by Sec. 43 of Ch. 658.)
CA Prob Code § 4653 (2021)
2021 California Code|Probate Code - PROB|DIVISION 4.7 - HEALTH CARE DECISIONS|PART 1 - DEFINITIONS AND GENERAL|CHAPTER 2 - General Provisions|Section 4653.

4653.  Nothing in this division shall be construed to condone, authorize, or approve mercy killing, assisted suicide, or euthanasia. This division is not intended to permit any affirmative or deliberate act or omission to end life other than withholding or withdrawing health care pursuant to an advance health care directive, by a surrogate, or as otherwise provided, so as to permit the natural process of dying.(Added by Stats. 1999, Ch. 658, Sec. 39. Effective January 1, 2000. Operative July 1, 2000, by Sec. 43 of Ch. 658.)
CA Prob Code § 4654 (2021)
2021 California Code|Probate Code - PROB|DIVISION 4.7 - HEALTH CARE DECISIONS|PART 1 - DEFINITIONS AND GENERAL|CHAPTER 2 - General Provisions|Section 4654.

4654.  This division does not authorize or require a health care provider or health care institution to provide health care contrary to generally accepted health care standards applicable to the health care provider or health care institution.(Added by Stats. 1999, Ch. 658, Sec. 39. Effective January 1, 2000. Operative July 1, 2000, by Sec. 43 of Ch. 658.)
CA Prob Code § 4655 (2021)
2021 California Code|Probate Code - PROB|DIVISION 4.7 - HEALTH CARE DECISIONS|PART 1 - DEFINITIONS AND GENERAL|CHAPTER 2 - General Provisions|Section 4655.

4655.  (a) This division does not create a presumption concerning the intention of a patient who has not made or who has revoked an advance health care directive.(b) In making health care decisions under this division, a patient’s attempted suicide shall not be construed to indicate a desire of the patient that health care be restricted or inhibited.(Added by Stats. 1999, Ch. 658, Sec. 39. Effective January 1, 2000. Operative July 1, 2000, by Sec. 43 of Ch. 658.)
CA Prob Code § 4656 (2021)
2021 California Code|Probate Code - PROB|DIVISION 4.7 - HEALTH CARE DECISIONS|PART 1 - DEFINITIONS AND GENERAL|CHAPTER 2 - General Provisions|Section 4656.

4656.  Death resulting from withholding or withdrawing health care in accordance with this division does not for any purpose constitute a suicide or homicide or legally impair or invalidate a policy of insurance or an annuity providing a death benefit, notwithstanding any term of the policy or annuity to the contrary.(Added by Stats. 1999, Ch. 658, Sec. 39. Effective January 1, 2000. Operative July 1, 2000, by Sec. 43 of Ch. 658.)
CA Prob Code § 4657 (2021)
2021 California Code|Probate Code - PROB|DIVISION 4.7 - HEALTH CARE DECISIONS|PART 1 - DEFINITIONS AND GENERAL|CHAPTER 2 - General Provisions|Section 4657.

4657.  A patient is presumed to have the capacity to make a health care decision, to give or revoke an advance health care directive, and to designate or disqualify a surrogate. This presumption is a presumption affecting the burden of proof.(Added by Stats. 1999, Ch. 658, Sec. 39. Effective January 1, 2000. Operative July 1, 2000, by Sec. 43 of Ch. 658.)
CA Prob Code § 4658 (2021)
2021 California Code|Probate Code - PROB|DIVISION 4.7 - HEALTH CARE DECISIONS|PART 1 - DEFINITIONS AND GENERAL|CHAPTER 2 - General Provisions|Section 4658.

4658.  Unless otherwise specified in a written advance health care directive, for the purposes of this division, a determination that a patient lacks or has recovered capacity, or that another condition exists that affects an individual health care instruction or the authority of an agent or surrogate, shall be made by the primary physician.(Added by Stats. 1999, Ch. 658, Sec. 39. Effective January 1, 2000. Operative July 1, 2000, by Sec. 43 of Ch. 658.)
CA Prob Code § 4659 (2021)
2021 California Code|Probate Code - PROB|DIVISION 4.7 - HEALTH CARE DECISIONS|PART 1 - DEFINITIONS AND GENERAL|CHAPTER 2 - General Provisions|Section 4659.

4659.  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), none of the following persons may make health care decisions as an agent under a power of attorney for health care or a surrogate under this division:(1) The supervising health care provider or an employee of the health care institution where the patient is receiving care.(2) An operator or employee of a community care facility or residential care facility where the patient is receiving care.(b) The prohibition in subdivision (a) does not apply to the following persons:(1) An employee, other than the supervising health care provider, who is related to the patient by blood, marriage, or adoption, or is a registered domestic partner of the patient.(2) An employee, other than the supervising health care provider, who is employed by the same health care institution, community care facility, or residential care facility for the elderly as the patient.(c) A conservator under the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act (Part 1 (commencing with Section 5000) of Division 5 of the Welfare and Institutions Code) may not be designated as an agent or surrogate to make health care decisions by the conservatee, unless all of the following are satisfied:(1) The advance health care directive is otherwise valid.(2) The conservatee is represented by legal counsel.(3) The lawyer representing the conservatee signs a certificate stating in substance:“I am a lawyer authorized to practice law in the state where this advance health care directive was executed, and the principal or patient was my client at the time this advance directive was executed. I have advised my client concerning his or her rights in connection with this advance directive and the applicable law and the consequences of signing or not signing this advance directive, and my client, after being so advised, has executed this advance directive.”(Amended by Stats. 2001, Ch. 230, Sec. 4. Effective January 1, 2002.)
CA Prob Code § 4660 (2021)
2021 California Code|Probate Code - PROB|DIVISION 4.7 - HEALTH CARE DECISIONS|PART 1 - DEFINITIONS AND GENERAL|CHAPTER 2 - General Provisions|Section 4660.

4660.  A copy of a written advance health care directive, revocation of an advance directive, or designation or disqualification of a surrogate has the same effect as the original.(Added by Stats. 1999, Ch. 658, Sec. 39. Effective January 1, 2000. Operative July 1, 2000, by Sec. 43 of Ch. 658.)
CA Prob Code § 4665 (2021)
2021 California Code|Probate Code - PROB|DIVISION 4.7 - HEALTH CARE DECISIONS|PART 1 - DEFINITIONS AND GENERAL|CHAPTER 3 - Transitional Provisions|Section 4665.

4665.  Except as otherwise provided by statute:(a) On and after July 1, 2000, this division applies to all advance health care directives, including, but not limited to, durable powers of attorney for health care and declarations under the Natural Death Act (former Chapter 3.9 (commencing with Section 7185) of Part 1 of Division 7 of the Health and Safety Code), regardless of whether they were given or executed before, on, or after July 1, 2000.(b) This division applies to all proceedings concerning advance health care directives commenced on or after July 1, 2000.(c) This division applies to all proceedings concerning written advance health care directives commenced before July 1, 2000, unless the court determines that application of a particular provision of this division would substantially interfere with the effective conduct of the proceedings or the rights of the parties and other interested persons, in which case the particular provision of this division does not apply and prior law applies.(d) Nothing in this division affects the validity of an advance health care directive executed before July 1, 2000, that was valid under prior law.(e) Nothing in this division affects the validity of a durable power of attorney for health care executed on a printed form that was valid under prior law, regardless of whether execution occurred before, on, or after July 1, 2000.(Added by Stats. 1999, Ch. 658, Sec. 39. Effective January 1, 2000. Operative July 1, 2000, by Sec. 43 of Ch. 658.)
CA Prob Code § 4700 (2021)
2021 California Code|Probate Code - PROB|DIVISION 4.7 - HEALTH CARE DECISIONS|PART 2 - UNIFORM HEALTH CARE DECISIONS ACT|CHAPTER 2 - Advance Health Care Directive Forms|Section 4700.

4700.  The form provided in Section 4701 may, but need not, be used to create an advance health care directive. The other sections of this division govern the effect of the form or any other writing used to create an advance health care directive. An individual may complete or modify all or any part of the form in Section 4701.(Added by Stats. 1999, Ch. 658, Sec. 39. Effective January 1, 2000. Operative July 1, 2000, by Sec. 43 of Ch. 658.)
CA Prob Code § 4711 (2021)
2021 California Code|Probate Code - PROB|DIVISION 4.7 - HEALTH CARE DECISIONS|PART 2 - UNIFORM HEALTH CARE DECISIONS ACT|CHAPTER 3 - Health Care Surrogates|Section 4711.

4711.  (a) A patient may designate an adult as a surrogate to make health care decisions by personally informing the supervising health care provider. The designation of a surrogate shall be promptly recorded in the patient’s health care record.(b) Unless the patient specifies a shorter period, a surrogate designation under subdivision (a) is effective only during the course of treatment or illness or during the stay in the health care institution when the surrogate designation is made, or for 60 days, whichever period is shorter. (c) The expiration of a surrogate designation under subdivision (b) does not affect any role the person designated under subdivision (a) may have in making health care decisions for the patient under any other law or standards of practice.(d) If the patient has designated an agent under a power of attorney for health care, the surrogate designated under subdivision (a) has priority over the agent for the period provided in subdivision (b), but the designation of a surrogate does not revoke the designation of an agent unless the patient communicates the intention to revoke in compliance with subdivision (a) of Section 4695.(Amended by Stats. 2001, Ch. 230, Sec. 5. Effective January 1, 2002.)
CA Prob Code § 4714 (2021)
2021 California Code|Probate Code - PROB|DIVISION 4.7 - HEALTH CARE DECISIONS|PART 2 - UNIFORM HEALTH CARE DECISIONS ACT|CHAPTER 3 - Health Care Surrogates|Section 4714.

4714.  A surrogate, including a person acting as a surrogate, shall make a health care decision in accordance with the patient’s individual health care instructions, if any, and other wishes to the extent known to the surrogate. Otherwise, the surrogate shall make the decision in accordance with the surrogate’s determination of the patient’s best interest. In determining the patient’s best interest, the surrogate shall consider the patient’s personal values to the extent known to the surrogate.(Added by Stats. 1999, Ch. 658, Sec. 39. Effective January 1, 2000. Operative July 1, 2000, by Sec. 43 of Ch. 658.)
CA Prob Code § 4715 (2021)
2021 California Code|Probate Code - PROB|DIVISION 4.7 - HEALTH CARE DECISIONS|PART 2 - UNIFORM HEALTH CARE DECISIONS ACT|CHAPTER 3 - Health Care Surrogates|Section 4715.

4715.  A patient having capacity at any time may disqualify another person, including a member of the patient’s family, from acting as the patient’s surrogate by a signed writing or by personally informing the supervising health care provider of the disqualification.(Added by Stats. 1999, Ch. 658, Sec. 39. Effective January 1, 2000. Operative July 1, 2000, by Sec. 43 of Ch. 658.)
CA Prob Code § 4716 (2021)
2021 California Code|Probate Code - PROB|DIVISION 4.7 - HEALTH CARE DECISIONS|PART 2 - UNIFORM HEALTH CARE DECISIONS ACT|CHAPTER 3 - Health Care Surrogates|Section 4716.

4716.  (a) If a patient lacks the capacity to make a health care decision, the patient’s domestic partner shall have the same authority as a spouse has to make a health care decision for his or her incapacitated spouse. This section may not be construed to expand or restrict the ability of a spouse to make a health care decision for an incapacitated spouse.(b) For the purposes of this section, the following definitions shall apply:(1) “Capacity” has the same meaning as defined in Section 4609.(2) “Health care” has the same meaning as defined in Section 4615.(3) “Health care decision” has the same meaning as defined in Section 4617.(4) “Domestic partner” has the same meaning as that term is used in Section 297 of the Family Code.(Added by Stats. 2001, Ch. 893, Sec. 49. Effective January 1, 2002.)