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California Probate Code Section 4736

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A health care provider or health care institution that
declines to comply with an individual health care instruction or
health care decision shall do all of the following:
   (a) Promptly so inform the patient, if possible, and any person
then authorized to make health care decisions for the patient.
   (b) Unless the patient or person then authorized to make health
care decisions for the patient refuses assistance, immediately make
all reasonable efforts to assist in the transfer of the patient to
another health care provider or institution that is willing to comply
with the instruction or decision.
   (c) Provide continuing care to the patient until a transfer can be
accomplished or until it appears that a transfer cannot be
accomplished.  In all cases, appropriate pain relief and other
palliative care shall be continued.

Last modified: January 12, 2009