Title Minnesota Statutes, Minnesota Statutes

145C.05 SUGGESTED FORM; PROVISIONS THAT MAY BE INCLUDED. § Subdivision 1.Content. A health care directive executed pursuant to this chapter may, but need not, be in the form contained in section 145C.16. § Subd. 2.Provisions that may be included. (a) A health care directive may i…

145C.06 WHEN EFFECTIVE. A health care directive is effective for a health care decision when: (1) it meets the requirements of section 145C.03, subdivision 1; and (2) the principal, in the determination of the attending physician, advanced practice registered nurse, or physician …

145C.07 AUTHORITY AND DUTIES OF HEALTH CARE AGENT. § Subdivision 1.Authority. The health care agent has authority to make any particular health care decision only if the principal lacks decision-making capacity, in the determination of the attending physician, advanced practice r…

145C.08 AUTHORITY TO REVIEW MEDICAL RECORDS. A health care agent acting pursuant to a health care directive has the same right as the principal to receive, review, and obtain copies of medical records of the principal, and to consent to the disclosure of medical records of the pr…

145C.09 REVOCATION OF HEALTH CARE DIRECTIVE. § Subdivision 1.Revocation. A principal with the capacity to do so may revoke a health care directive in whole or in part at any time by doing any of the following: (1) canceling, defacing, obliterating, burning, tearing, or otherwise …

145C.10 PRESUMPTIONS. (a) The principal is presumed to have the capacity to execute a health care directive and to revoke a health care directive, absent clear and convincing evidence to the contrary. (b) A health care provider or health care agent may presume that a health care …

145C.11 IMMUNITIES. § Subdivision 1.Health care agent. A health care agent is not subject to criminal prosecution or civil liability if the health care agent acts in good faith. § Subd. 2.Health care provider. (a) With respect to health care provided to a patient with a health ca…

145C.12 PROHIBITED PRACTICES. § Subdivision 1.Health care provider. A health care provider, health care service plan, insurer, self-insured employee welfare benefit plan, or nonprofit hospital plan may not condition admission to a facility, or the providing of treatment or insura…

145C.13 PENALTIES. § Subdivision 1.Gross misdemeanor offenses. Whoever commits any of the following acts is guilty of a gross misdemeanor: (1) willfully conceals, cancels, defaces, or obliterates a health care directive of a principal without the consent of the principal; (2) wil…

145C.14 CERTAIN PRACTICES NOT CONDONED. Nothing in this chapter may be construed to condone, authorize, or approve mercy killing or euthanasia. History: 1993 c 312 s 15

145C.15 DUTY TO PROVIDE LIFE-SUSTAINING HEALTH CARE. (a) If a proxy acting under chapter 145B or a health care agent acting under this chapter directs the provision of health care, nutrition, or hydration that, in reasonable medical judgment, has a significant possibility of sust…

145C.16 SUGGESTED FORM. The following is a suggested form of a health care directive and is not a required form. HEALTH CARE DIRECTIVE I, ..........................., understand this document allows me to do ONE OR BOTH of the following: PART I: Name another person (called the he…

145C.17 OPIOID INSTRUCTIONS ENTERED INTO HEALTH RECORD. At the request of the patient or health care agent, a health care provider shall enter into the patient's health care record any instructions relating to administering, dispensing, or prescribing an opioid. A health care pro…

145C.18 NONOPIOID DIRECTIVE. § Subdivision 1.Execution. A patient with the capacity to do so may execute a nonopioid directive on the patient's own behalf. A patient's health care agent may execute a nonopioid directive on behalf of the patient. A nonopioid directive must include…