Form 3 1 Health Care Directive PDF Details

The 3-1 Health Care Directive form represents a fundamental tool for individuals looking to ensure their health care preferences are honored, especially in circumstances where they cannot speak for themselves. It empowers individuals to designate an agent, potentially followed by alternate agents, who is authorized to make health care decisions on their behalf. This includes decisions around the provision, withholding, or withdrawal of treatments and other healthcare services. Furthermore, the form allows individuals to specify their wishes directly regarding end-of-life decisions, pain relief, and other significant healthcare preferences, thereby providing a comprehensive framework for managing one’s health care. Additionally, it outlines the conditions under which an agent’s authority becomes effective, which could be upon the primary physician's determination of the individual's incapacity or immediately as specified by the individual. It also covers post-death decisions such as organ donation, autopsy, and the disposition of remains, ensuring that an individual’s healthcare and posthumous wishes are thoroughly respected and executed. This directive not only supports personal autonomy in healthcare decision-making but also serves as a crucial communication tool among family members, healthcare agents, and healthcare providers to align on care preferences and legal rights.

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FORM 3 - 1

ADVANCE HEALTH CARE DIRECTIVE

NOTE: This form should include taglines as required by the Affordable Care Act. (See “Taglines” on page 1.21, for detailed information.)

INSTRUCTIONS

Part 1 of this form lets you name another individual as agent to make health care decisions for you if you become incapable of making your own decisions, or if you want someone else to make those decisions for

you now even though you are still capable. You may also name an alternate agent to act for you if your irst choice is not willing, able, or reasonably available to make decisions for you.

Your agent may not be an operator or employee of a community care facility or a residential care facility where you are receiving care, or your supervising health care provider or an employee of the health care institution where you are receiving care, unless your agent is related to you or is a coworker.

Unless you state otherwise in this form, your agent will have the right to:

1.Consent or refuse consent to any care, treatment, service, or procedure to maintain, diagnose, or otherwise affect a physical or mental condition.

2.Select or discharge health care providers and institutions.

3.Approve or disapprove diagnostic tests, surgical procedures, and programs of medication.

4.Direct the provision, withholding, or withdrawal of artiicial nutrition and hydration and all other forms of health care, including cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

5.Donate organs or tissues, authorize an autopsy, and direct disposition of remains.

However, your agent will not be able to commit you to a mental health facility, or consent to convulsive treatment, psychosurgery, sterilization or abortion for you.

Part 2 of this form lets you give speciic instructions about any aspect of your health care, whether or

not you appoint an agent. Choices are provided for you to express your wishes regarding the provision,

withholding, or withdrawal of treatment to keep you alive, as well as the provision of pain relief. You also can add to the choices you have made or write down any additional wishes. If you are satisied to allow your agent to determine what is best for you in making end of life decisions, you need not ill out Part 2

of this form.

Give a copy of the signed and completed form to your physician, to any other health care providers you may have, to any health care institution at which you are receiving care, and to any health care agents you have named. You should talk to the person you have named as agent to make sure that he or she understands your wishes and is willing to take the responsibility.

You have the right to revoke this advance health care directive or replace this form at any time.

Name of Patient:

Date of Birth:

(04/18)

California Hospital Association

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Form 3-1 Advance Health Care Directive

PART 1 – POWER OF ATTORNEY FOR HEALTH CARE

DESIGNATION OF AGENT:

I designate the following individual as my agent to make health care decisions for me: Name of individual you choose as agent:

Address:

Telephone:

(home phone)

(work phone)

(cell/pager)

OPTIONAL: If I revoke my agent’s authority or if my agent is not willing, able, or reasonably available to make a health care decision for me, I designate as my irst alternate agent:

Name of individual you choose as irst alternate agent:

Address:

Telephone:

(home phone)

(work phone)

(cell/pager)

OPTIONAL: If I revoke the authority of my agent and irst alternate agent or if neither is willing, able,

or reasonably available to make a health care decision for me, I designate as my second alternate agent: Name of individual you choose as second alternate agent:

Address:

Telephone:

(home phone)

(work phone)

(cell/pager)

AGENT’S AUTHORITY:

My agent is authorized to make all health care decisions for me, including decisions to provide, withhold, or withdraw artiicial nutrition and hydration and all other forms of health care to keep me alive, except

as I state here:

(Add additional sheets if needed.)

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Form 3-1 Advance Health Care Directive

WHEN AGENT’S AUTHORITY BECOMES EFFECTIVE:

My agent’s authority becomes effective when my primary physician determines that I am unable to make my own health care decisions.

(Initial here)

OR

My agent’s authority to make health care decisions for me takes effect immediately.

(Initial here)

AGENT’S OBLIGATION:

My agent shall make health care decisions for me in accordance with this power of attorney for health care, any instructions I give in Part 2 of this form, and my other wishes to the extent known to my agent. To the extent my wishes are unknown, my agent shall make health care decisions for me in accordance with what my agent determines to be in my best interest. In determining my best interest, my agent shall consider my personal values to the extent known to my agent.

AGENT’S POSTDEATH AUTHORITY:

My agent is authorized to make anatomical gifts, authorize an autopsy and direct disposition of my remains, except as I state here or in Part 3 of this form:

(Add additional sheets if needed.)

NOMINATION OF CONSERVATOR:

If a conservator of my person needs to be appointed for me by a court, I nominate the agent designated in this form. If that agent is not willing, able or reasonably available to act as conservator, I nominate the alternate agents whom I have named, in the order designated.

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Form 3-1 Advance Health Care Directive

PART 2 – INSTRUCTIONS FOR HEALTH CARE

If you ill out this part of the form, you may strike any wording you do not want.

END OF LIFE DECISIONS:

I direct that my health care providers and others involved in my care provide, withhold, or withdraw treatment in accordance with the choice I have marked below:

Choice Not To Prolong Life:

(Initial here)

I do not want my life to be prolonged if (1) I have an incurable and irreversible condition that will result in my death within a relatively short time, (2) I become unconscious and, to a

reasonable degree of medical certainty, I will not regain consciousness, or (3) the likely risks and burdens of treatment would outweigh the expected beneits,

OR

Choice To Prolong Life:

(Initial here)

I want my life to be prolonged as long as possible within the limits of generally accepted health care standards.

RELIEF FROM PAIN:

Except as I state in the following space, I direct that treatment for alleviation of pain or discomfort be provided at all times, even if it hastens my death:

(Add additional sheets if needed.)

OTHER WISHES:

(If you do not agree with any of the optional choices above and wish to write your own, or if you wish to add to the instructions you have given above, you may do so here.) I direct that:

(Add additional sheets if needed.)

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Form 3-1 Advance Health Care Directive

PART 3 – DONATION OF ORGANS AT DEATH (OPTIONAL)

I. Upon my death:

I give any needed organs, tissues, or parts.

(Initial here)

OR

I do not authorize the donation of any organs, tissues or parts.

(Initial here)

OR

I give the following organs, tissues, or parts only:

(Initial here)

II.If you wish to donate organs, tissues, or parts, you must complete II. and III. My gift is for the following purposes:

Transplant

 

 

Research

 

 

 

 

(Initial here)

 

(Initial here)

Therapy

 

 

Education

 

 

(Initial here)

 

(Initial here)

III.I understand that tissue banks work with both nonproit and for-proit tissue processors and distributors.

It is possible that donated skin may be used for cosmetic or reconstructive surgery purposes. It is possible that donated tissue may be used for transplants outside of the United States.

1. My donated skin may be used for cosmetic surgery purposes.

Yes

 

No

 

 

(Initial here)

(Initial here)

2. My donated tissue may be used for applications outside of the United States.

Yes

 

No

 

 

(Initial here)

(Initial here)

3.My donated tissue may be used by for-proit tissue processors and distributors.

Yes

 

No

 

 

(Initial here)

(Initial here)

(Health and Safety Code Section 7158.3)

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Form 3-1 Advance Health Care Directive

PART 4 – PRIMARY PHYSICIAN (OPTIONAL)

I designate the following physician as my primary physician:

Name of Physician:

Telephone:

Address:

OPTIONAL: If the physician I have designated above is not willing, able, or reasonably available to act as my primary physician, I designate the following physician as my primary physician:

Name of Physician:

Telephone:

Address:

PART 5 – SIGNATURE

The form must be signed by you and by two qualiied witnesses, or acknowledged before a notary public.

SIGNATURE:

Sign and date the form here:

Date:

 

 

Time:

 

AM / PM

Signature:

 

 

 

 

(patient)

Print name:

(patient)

Address:

STATEMENT OF WITNESSES:

I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of California (1) that the individual who signed or acknowledged this advance health care directive is personally known to me, or that the individual’s identity was proven to me by convincing evidence, (2) that the individual signed or acknowledged this

advance directive in my presence, (3) that the individual appears to be of sound mind and under no duress, fraud, or undue inluence, (4) that I am not a person appointed as agent by this advance directive, and (5)

that I am not the individual’s health care provider, an employee of the individual’s health care provider, the operator of a community care facility, an employee of an operator of a community care facility, the operator of a residential care facility for the elderly, nor an employee of an operator of a residential care facility for the elderly.

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Form 3-1 Advance Health Care Directive

FIRST WITNESS

 

 

 

 

 

Name:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Telephone:

 

 

Address:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Date:

 

 

 

Time:

 

 

 

AM / PM

Signature:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(witness)

 

 

 

 

 

Print name:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(witness)

 

 

 

 

 

SECOND WITNESS

 

 

 

 

 

Name:

 

 

 

Telephone:

 

Address:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Date:

 

Time:

 

 

 

AM / PM

Signature:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(witness)

 

 

 

 

 

Print name:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(witness)

 

 

 

 

 

ADDITIONAL STATEMENT OF WITNESSES:

At least one of the above witnesses must also sign the following declaration:

I further declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of California that I am not related to the individual executing this advance health care directive by blood, marriage, or adoption, and to the best of my knowledge, I am not entitled to any part of the individual’s estate upon his or her death under a will now existing or by operation of law.

Date:

 

Time:

 

AM / PM

Signature:

(witness)

Print name:

(witness)

(04/18)

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A notary public or other oficer completing this certiicate veriies only the identity of the individual who signed the document to which this certiicate is attached, and not the truthfulness, accuracy,

or validity of the document.

YOU MAY USE THIS CERTIFICATE OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT BEFORE A NOTARY PUBLIC INSTEAD OF THE STATEMENT OF WITNESSES.

State of California

)

 

 

 

County of

 

 

 

)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

)

 

 

 

On (date)

 

 

before me, (name and title of the oficer)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

personally appeared

(name(s) of signer(s))

 

 

 

 

, who proved to

me on the basis of satisfactory evidence to be the person(s) whose name(s) is/are subscribed to the within instrument and acknowledged to me that he/she/they executed the same in his/her/their authorized capacity(ies), and that by his/her/their signature(s) on the instrument the person(s), or the entity upon behalf of which the person(s) acted, executed the instrument.

I certify under PENALTY OF PERJURY under the laws of the State of California that the foregoing paragraph is true and correct.

WITNESS my hand and oficial seal.

Signature:[Seal]

(notary)

PART 6—SPECIAL WITNESS REQUIREMENT

If you are a patient in a skilled nursing facility, the patient advocate or ombudsman must sign the following statement:

STATEMENT OF PATIENT ADVOCATE OR OMBUDSMAN

I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of California that I am a patient advocate or ombudsman as designated by the State Department of Aging and that I am serving as a witness as required by Section 4675 of the Probate Code.

Date:

 

Time:

 

AM / PM

Signature:

(patient advocate or ombudsman)

Print name:

(patient advocate or ombudsman)

Address:

(04/18)

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