New Jersey Statutes 26:2H-66. Resolution of disagreements
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Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 26:2H-66
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- person: includes corporations, companies, associations, societies, firms, partnerships and joint stock companies as well as individuals, unless restricted by the context to an individual as distinguished from a corporate entity or specifically restricted to one or some of the above enumerated synonyms and, when used to designate the owner of property which may be the subject of an offense, includes this State, the United States, any other State of the United States as defined infra and any foreign country or government lawfully owning or possessing property within this State. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
14. a. In the event of disagreement among the patient, health care representative and attending physician concerning the patient’s decision making capacity or the appropriate interpretation and application of the terms of an advance directive to the patient’s course of treatment, the parties may seek to resolve the disagreement by means of procedures and practices established by the health care institution, including but not limited to, consultation with an institutional ethics committee, or with a person designated by the health care institution for this purpose or may seek resolution by a court of competent jurisdiction.
b. A health care professional involved in the patient’s care, other than the attending physician, or an administrator of a health care institution may also invoke the dispute resolution process established by the health care institution to seek to resolve a disagreement concerning the patient’s decision making capacity or the appropriate interpretation and application of the terms of an advance directive.
L.1991,c.201,s.14.