ADVANCE DIRECTIVES
  THE STATE of NEVADA
 

 The Announcement of Death to St. Fina
 Dominco Ghirlandaio, 1486


THE NEVADA DEPARTMENT of HEALTH and HUMAN SERVICES
Division of Health Care Financing and Policy


INFORMATION concerning Advance Directives for Health Care is made available by the Nevada Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Health Care Financing and Policy at the following link:

http://dhcfp.state.nv.us/advancedirectives.htm

An extremely useful pdf document that may be downloaded from that site is:  WRITTEN INFORMATION to PROVIDE to PATIENTS on NV LAW CONCERNING ADVANCE DIRECTIVES

This document summarizes Nevada law on advance directives and what steps a patient can take towards expressing their wishes on end-of-life treatment. It includes several forms prescribed by Nevada Revised Statutes. The link to this document is:

http://dhcfp.state.nv.us/HIPAA/NV%20Law%20Concerning%20Advanced%20Directives%2014%2004.pdf

Nevada Statute law concerning these documents and related issues may be accessed at:

http://www.leg.state.nv.us/LAW1.CFM

http://www.leg.state.nv.us/Division/Legal/LawLibrary/NRS/NRS-449.html


Note especially the provision for a LIVING WILL LOCKBOX”,

A State-Government Information Depository containing individual preferences:

www.nvsos.gov

 

 


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