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- Authorization for Emergency Care to Minor(s) - The Authorization for Emergency Care to Minors should be printed, completed and signed by a parent/legal guardian. This form is authorization by the parent/legal guardian for any medical facility to provide health services to the minor in the absence of a parent/legal guardian. This form should be left with the temporary caregiver of your child. The temporary caregiver will be required to present this form at the time medical care is received. For example, if your child is visiting Grandma and Grandpa this summer, you will want to print, complete and sign this form and leave with Grandma and Grandpa. This will enable them to seek medical care for your child in the event it is necessary. You may also want to leave this form with your summer babysitter, your child’s day care facility or the counselor at your child’s summer camp. The form is valid throughout Oklahoma. You may make additional copies if necessary.
- Advance Directive - This form is provided to serve as a framework for individuals who wish to complete an Advance Directive, also known as a living will.
Medical treatment decisions may need to be made at a time when the patient is no longer mentally able to make a decision. Individuals may express their wishes (“directives”) in advance in writing concerning the types of medical treatment they want or do not want, including life-sustaining treatment. This document is known as an Advance Directive, and may be followed under certain conditions if patients are no longer able to make decisions.
In order for doctors or hospital workers to be legally required to follow an Advance Directive, it must meet certain requirements. Individuals must be at least 18 when signing an Advance Directive and of sound mind. It must be signed by the individual and the signature witnessed by two persons. Heirs, legatees or devisees (persons with an interest in the estate of the individual) are not permitted to be witnesses.
The instructions or directives in an Advance Directive should be followed by the doctors, hospital workers and family when the individual is certified to have reached the specified medical condition. The Advance Directive form has options for activation of the directives upon the individual attaining a “terminal condition” or a condition of “persistent unconsciousness”. Individuals also have the option to specify activation of directives if they reach an “end stage condition” or some other condition that is affirmatively specified.
Finally, Oklahoma law presumes that patients wish to be tube-fed if they can no longer take food and water by normal means. Those who do not want to be tube-fed under certain medical conditions, must set forth in their Advance Directive that no artificially administered nutrition or hydration be done. As a Catholic health care provider, Saint Francis Health System facilities will honor the Advance Directive unless it conflicts with Catholic Ethical and Religious Directives. For instance, our hospitals may not be able to participate in directives
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