(20 ILCS 2310/2310-600)
Sec. 2310-600. Advance directive information.
(a) The Department of Public Health shall prepare and publish the summary of advance directives law, as required by the federal Patient Self-Determination Act, and related forms. Publication may be limited to the World Wide Web. The summary required under this subsection (a) must include the Department of Public Health Uniform DNR/POLST form.
(b) The Department of Public Health shall publish Spanish language versions of the following:
(1) The statutory Living Will Declaration form.
(2) The Illinois Statutory Short Form Power of
Attorney for Health Care.
(3) The statutory Declaration of Mental Health
Treatment Form.
(4) The summary of advance directives law in Illinois.
(5) The Department of Public Health Uniform DNR/POLST
form.
Publication may be limited to the World Wide Web.
(b-5) In consultation with a statewide professional organization representing physicians licensed to practice medicine in all its branches, statewide organizations representing nursing homes, registered professional nurses, and emergency medical systems, and a statewide organization representing hospitals, the Department of Public Health shall develop and publish a uniform form for practitioner cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) or life-sustaining treatment orders that may be utilized in all settings. The form shall meet the published minimum requirements to nationally be considered a practitioner orders for life-sustaining treatment form, or POLST, and may be referred to as the Department of Public Health Uniform DNR/POLST form. This form does not replace a physician's or other practitioner's authority to make a do-not-resuscitate (DNR) order.
(c) (Blank).
(d) The Department of Public Health shall publish the Department of Public Health Uniform DNR/POLST form reflecting the changes made by this amendatory Act of the 98th General Assembly no later than January 1, 2015.
(Source: P.A. 97-382, eff. 1-1-12; 98-1110, eff. 8-26-14.)
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