26:2H-132 Encouragement of public awareness, understanding of POLST form. 4. It shall be the public policy of this State to encourage public awareness and understanding of the Practitioner Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment form as a means of enabling patients in this State to indicate their preferences for health care through the use of a completed POLST form as a complementary measure to the use of an advance directive, or in lieu of an advance directive if the patient has not executed such a document, in accordance with the provisions of this act. L.2011, c.145, s.4; amended 2019, c.218, s.5.
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