What is a Healthcare Proxy?
A healthcare proxy is a legal document that allows you to appoint someone you trust, such as a family member or close friend, as your healthcare agent, to make healthcare decisions for you if you lose the ability to make decisions for yourself. Appointing a healthcare agent ensures that your healthcare wishes are followed. You may give the person you select as your health care agent as little or as much authority as you want. An agent can be given the right to make all healthcare decisions or only certain ones. Important decisions about medical treatment, such as nourishment and water by feeding tubes, as well as instructions like requesting or stopping treatment will be carried out as you have requested, if a healthcare proxy is in place. To get more information about a health care proxy or to get a form online, click here. You may also contact Customer Service or use Click & Comment to request that a form be mailed to you.
