§ 37-11-11 — Inclusion in medical record; continuing consent

(a) Upon being presented with a psychiatric advance directive, a provider or facility shall make the directive a part of a declarant's medical record. (b) In the absence of specific knowledge of the revocation or invalidity of a directive, a provider or facility providing mental health care to a declarant may presume that a person who executed a psychiatric advance directive in accordance with this chapter was of sound mind and acted voluntarily when executing such directive and may rely upon a psychiatric advance directive or a copy of that directive. (c) A provider or facility shall be authorized to act in accordance with a directive when a declarant is incapable of making mental health care decisions. (d) A provider or facility shall continue to obtain a declarant's consent to all mental health care decisions if he or she is capable of providing consent or refusal.

Legislative History

Added by 2022 Ga. Laws 836,§ 1-1, eff. 7/1/2022.