Client Choice, Representatives, Consent, and Advance Directives

Sets out how the Agency supports each client to make their own choices about their services, how it identifies and works with representatives (guardians, patient advocates, agents under a power of attorney and people the client chooses to involve), how it obtains and records consent to services and to sharing information, and how it handles advance directives, do-not-resuscitate orders and MI-POST forms. No rule requires a non-medical home care agency to give advance directive information; the Agency's practice on advance directives is its own standard.