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Illinois Health Care Surrogate Act - 755 ILCS 40, Section 65Legal Research Home > Illinois Lawyer > Health Care Surrogate Act > Illinois Health Care Surrogate Act - 755 ILCS 40, Section 65 Do-not-resuscitate orders. (a) An individual of sound mind and having reached the age of majority or having obtained the status of an emancipated person pursuant to the Emancipation of Mature Minors Act may execute a document (consistent with the Department of Public Health Uniform DNR Order Form) directing that resuscitating efforts shall not be implemented. Such an order may also be executed by an attending physician. Notwithstanding the existence of a DNR order, appropriate organ donation treatment may be applied or continued temporarily in the event of the patient's death, in accordance with subsection (g) of Section 20 of this Act, if the patient is an organ donor. (b) Consent to a DNR order may be obtained from the individual, or from another person at the individual's direction, or from the individual's legal guardian, agent under a power of attorney for health care, or surrogate decision maker, and witnessed by 2 individuals 18 years of age or older. (c) The DNR order may, but need not, be in the form adopted by the Department of Public Health pursuant to Section 2310-600 of the Department of Public Health Powers and Duties Law. (d) A health care professional or health care provider may presume, in the absence of knowledge to the contrary, that a completed Department of Public Health Uniform DNR Order form or a copy of that form is a valid DNR order. A health care professional or health care provider, or an employee of a health care professional or health care provider, who in good faith complies with a do-not-resuscitate order made in accordance with this Act is not, as a result of that compliance, subject to any criminal or civil liability, except for willful and wanton misconduct, and may not be found to have committed an act of unprofessional conduct. (Source: P.A. 92-356, eff. 10-1-01; 93-794, eff. 7-22-04.) Illinois Lawyers
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