Advanced Directives
Advanced directives protect your right to make medical choices that affect your life. An advance directive is a legal means of expressing your desires about healthcare decisions should you become unable to do so due to injury or illness. Maryland law provides for three types of directives: Durable Power of Attorney for Healthcare - a document by which you appoint an agent to make healthcare decisions for you and/or give instructions regarding future healthcare decisions.
Living Will
A written declaration of your desire to receive or reject specific life sustaining procedures should you become unable at some future time to communicate, because either death from a terminal illness or chronic illness is near or because you are in a persistent vegetative state.
Oral Directive
An oral discussion of your treatment decisions made in the presence of your physician and one witness to indicate your treatment preferences.
Advanced directives protect your right to make medical choices that affect your life. Hospital personnel can provide assistance and further information about preparing advance directives and storing them in the registry. Please call 410-535-8275 or 301-855-1012 ext. 8275 for more information.
If you would like to complete an advanced directive now, click here and complete the form and return to our fax # 410-414-4666.
If you choose not to prepare an advance directive, Maryland law recognizes the authority of a surrogate decision-maker when necessary. A guardian, (if one has been appointed by a court), spouse, adult child or parents of the patient (in that order) can make treatment decisions for you without specific court authorization in the event that you cannot make such decisions for yourself.
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