Advance Medical Directives in Tennessee: Latest Forms and Other Updates
Presented by an attorney who participated in a statewide workgroup of health care provider representatives that drafted the Tennessee Health Care Decisions Act: Charles M. Key, Wyatt, Tarrant & Combs, LLP.
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Eastern
10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. Central
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Did you know...
The Department of Health periodically updates its Advance Directive Forms: Advance Care Plan Form, Appointment of Health Care Agent Form, Appointment of Surrogate Form, and Physician Order for Scope of Treatment (POST) Form.
The legislature has also amended provisions on medical directives. These changes include:
- Conformed the attestation requirements of the Right to Natural Death Act (living wills) to the Health Care Decisions Act (HCDA);
- Added an option for "shifting" authority, analogous to the HCDA; and
- Conformed the attestation requirements of the Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care to the HCDA.
Learn the substantial improvements that have been made in Tennessee's advance medical directives laws and how to use the up-to-date advance directive forms to meet your clients' needs by participating in the all-new Tennessee Attorneys Memo webinar, Advance Medical Directives in Tennessee: Latest Forms and Other Updates.
Your Webinar Agenda:
- Statutory advance directives available in Tennessee before July 1, 2004
- Tennessee Health Care Decisions Act (HCDA)
- Requirements
- Patient instructions
- Surrogates
- 2007 amendments
- Right to Natural Death Act
- Uniform Durable Power of Attorney Act
- Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care
- Forms
- Living wills
- Uniform Durable Powers of Attorney
- Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care
- Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act
- Minor children
- Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) Orders
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Eastern
10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. Central
Advance Medical Directives in Tennessee: Latest Forms and Other Updates is just $107 per listener.
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Charles M. Key, Wyatt, Tarrant & Combs, LLP
CHARLES M. KEY is a partner in Wyatt, Tarrant & Combs, LLP, Memphis, Tennessee. He represents health care providers and related organizations in areas such as business planning, regulatory compliance, Medicare reimbursement, antitrust, insurance, risk management, and medical staff relations. Charles holds an undergraduate degree in philosophy from Arkansas State University and a law degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia, and is an experienced speaker and writer on legal issues in health care. His recent publications include “Who Will Decide? Helping Your Clients With End-of-Life Directives,”
Tennessee Bar Journal, vol. 42, no. 12, pp. 12-21 (2006). He is Past-Chairman of the Editorial Board of
The Health Lawyer (ABA), Chair-Elect of the Tennessee Bar Foundation Board of Trustees, and a member of the American Health Lawyers Association, the American Bar Association Health Law Section, and the State Bar Associations of Missouri and Tennessee (Past Chair, Health Law Section).
Charles participated in a statewide workgroup of health care provider representatives that drafted the Tennessee Health Care Decisions Act in 2003, lobbied the bill in the Tennessee General Assembly in 2004, and continues to be involved in the rulemaking process through the Tennessee Department of Health.
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