What is the health care provider or institution objects to the Advance Directive or expressed wishes of the patient on ethical or moral grounds?
Health care institutions are required by law to notify patients on admission if institutional policy or ethics will affect the implementation of an advance directive. If an individual healthcare provider objects to the implementation of a legal advance directive, care may be transferred to another provider within the institution, according to agency policy. If the health care institution as a whole objects to the implementation of a legal advance directive, the health care institution is obligated by law to transfer the patient’s care to a facility that will comply with the directive.
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