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It lets you appoint a specific person to make health care decisions for you if you are too sick to make decisions for yourself. This person will be called your Health Care Agent. Your Health Care Agent ? Should be someone who you trust, who knows you well, and is familiar with your values and beliefs.

It mandates that patient advanced directives be implemented if necessary, assuming those wishes are legally valid and permissible by State law. It requires education programs including advanced directives, bioethics, patient wishes, and the concept of patient self-determination.

Abstract. The Patient Self-Determination Act (PSDA) is a federal law, and compliance is mandatory. It is the purpose of this act to ensure that a patient's right to self-determination in health care decisions be communicated and protected.

The PSDA requires that hospitals and other specified types of health care organizations participating in Medicare and Medicaid programs inform patients of their right under existing State law to accept or refuse medical or surgical treatment and to formulate advance directives.

Advance directives are legal documents that provide instructions for medical care and only go into effect if you cannot communicate your own wishes. The two most common advance directives for health care are the living will and the durable power of attorney for health care.

This form is a power of attorney for health care. It lets you name another individual as agent to make health-care decisions for you if you become incapable of making your own decisions or if you want someone else to make those decisions for you now even though you are still capable.