Oregon Administrative Rules › Chapter 411 - DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES, AGING AND PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES › Division 390 - HEALTH CARE ADVOCATES FOR ADULTS WITH INTELLECTUAL OR DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES › Section 411-390-0120 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 63, No. 7, July 1, 2024
In addition to the following definitions, OAR
				411-317-0000 includes general
				definitions for words and terms frequently used in OAR chapter 411, division
				390. If a word or term is defined differently in OAR
				411-317-0000, the definition in
				this rule applies.
(1) "Artificially
			 Administered Nutrition and Hydration" means a medical intervention to provide
			 food and water by tube, mechanical device, or other medically assisted method.
			 "Artificially administered nutrition and hydration" does not include the usual
			 and typical provision of nutrition and hydration, such as the provision of
			 nutrition and hydration by cup, hand, bottle, drinking straw, or eating
			 utensil.
(2) "Attending Physician"
			 means the physician who has primary responsibility for the care and treatment
			 of an individual.
(3) "Capable"
			 means not incapable.
(4) "Health
			 Care" means diagnosis, treatment, or care of disease, injury, and congenital or
			 degenerative conditions, including the use, maintenance, withdrawal, or
			 withholding of life-sustaining procedures and the use, maintenance, withdrawal,
			 or withholding of artificially administered nutrition and hydration.
(5) "Health Care Advocate" means the person
			 who is authorized to make certain health care decisions on behalf of an
			 incapable individual if the individual does not have a guardian or a health
			 care representative.
(6) "Health
			 Care Decision" means consent, refusal of consent, or withholding or withdrawal
			 of consent to health care, and includes decisions relating to dental procedures
			 and admission to, or discharge from, a health care facility. For the purpose of
			 these rules, "health care decision" does not include decisions relating to
			 entry or exit from a residential facility as defined in ORS
			 443.400 or an adult foster home
			 as defined in ORS 443.705.
(7) "Health Care Facility" means a health
			 care facility as defined in ORS
			 442.015 or domiciliary care
			 facilities as defined in ORS
			 443.205.
(8) "Incapable" means that in the opinion of
			 a court or in the opinion of an individual's attending physician, an individual
			 lacks the ability to make and communicate health care decisions to health care
			 providers, including communication through persons familiar with the
			 individual's manner of communicating if those persons are available.
(9) "Individual" means an adult with
			 intellectual or developmental disabilities for whom services are planned and
			 provided.
(10) "Individualized
			 Written Service Plan Team" means a group consisting of all of the following:
(a) An individual.
(b) The individual's legal or designated
			 representative.
(c) The
			 individual's case manager.
(d)
			 Other people who may be chosen by the individual, such as providers or family
			 members.