Power Of Attorney

Decisions About Your Health Care
There may be a time when you are so ill that you cannot make decisions about your health care. If this happens, advance directives are documents that protect your right to refuse health care you do not want or to request care you do want. You have the right to be given information on how to create an Advance Directive.

There are four kinds of Advance Directives:

• Living Will – A paper that tells your doctor the care you do or do not want if you become ill and may die. It can say if you want to be fed through tubes or kept alive with machines;
• Durable Medical Power of Attorney – A paper that lets you pick a person you trust to make decisions when you cannot.
• Durable Mental Health Power of Attorney – Names a person to make decisions if you are unable to do so.
• Pre-Hospital Medical Care Directive (DNR) – States your wishes about not wanting certain lifesaving care given outside a hospital or in an emergency room. This form must be printed on Orange Paper.

​These directives can be downloaded individually or in a complete packet. You must also include the Letter to my representative, which is about the powers of attorney forms and responsibilities, to keep with your files.
Life Care Planning Packet
Life Care Planning Packet – Large Font
Life Care Planning Packet – Spanish
Paquete de Planificación de la Atención en Vida