California Probate Code CHAPTER 4 - Duties of Health Care Providers

• Section 4730.
  Before implementing a health care decision made for a patient, a supervising health care provider, if possible, shall promptly communicate to the patient the decision...
• Section 4731.
  (a) A supervising health care provider who knows of the existence of an advance health care directive, a revocation of an advance health care directive, or...
• Section 4732.
  A primary physician who makes or is informed of a determination that a patient lacks or has recovered capacity, or that another condition exists affecting...
• Section 4733.
  Except as provided in Sections 4734 and 4735, a health care provider or health care institution providing care to a patient shall do the following:(a) Comply...
• Section 4734.
  (a) A health care provider may decline to comply with an individual health care instruction or health care decision for reasons of conscience.(b) A health care institution...
• Section 4735.
  A health care provider or health care institution may decline to comply with an individual health care instruction or health care decision that requires medically...
• Section 4736.
  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...

Last modified: October 22, 2018