An advance health care directive
 The Wyoming Health Care Decisions Act of 2005
 Power of Attorney for Health Care
 Living Wll
 An agent
 Artificial nutrition
 Capacity
 Community care facility
 Emancipated minor
 Guardian
 Health care
 Health care provider
 Primary physician
 Surrogate
 Witnesses
 Nomination of a guardian
 Immunities
 Statutory damages

1. Selection and discharge of health care providers and institutions;
2. Approval or disapproval of diagnostic tests, surgical procedures, programs of medication and orders not to resuscitate; and
3. Directions to provide withhold or withdraw artificial nutrition and hydration and all other forms of health care.

1. Have capacity;
2. Are reasonably available;
3. Are willing to make health care decisions, including decisions to initiate, refuse to initiate, continue or discontinue the use of a life sustaining procedure on behalf of a patient who lacks capacity; and
4. Are identified by the supervising health care provider in accordance with this act as the person or persons who are to make those decisions in accordance with this act.

1. The spouse, unless legally separated;
2. An adult child;
3. A parent;
4. A grandparent;
5. An adult brother or sister;
6. An adult grandchild.

1. A treating health care provider or employee of the provider;
2. The attorney-in-fact nominated in the writing;
3. The operator of a community care facility or employee of the operator or facility;
4. The operator of a residential care facility or employee of the operator or facility.

1. A health care provider or institution acting in good faith and in accordance with generally accepted health care standards applicable to the health care provider or institution is not subject to civil or criminal liability or to discipline for unprofessional conduct for:
   1. Complying with a health care decision of a person apparently having authority to make a health care decision for a patient, including a decision to withhold or withdraw health care;
   2. Declining to comply with a health care decision of a person based on a belief that the person then lacked authority;
   3. Complying with an advance health care directive and assuming that the directive was valid when made and has not been revoked or terminated;
   4. Providing life-sustaining treatment in an emergency situation when the existence of a health care directive is unknown; or
   5. Declining to comply with a health care decision or advance health care directive because the instruction is contrary to the conscience or good faith medical judgment of the health care provider, or the written policies of the institution.
2. An individual acting as agent or surrogate under this act is not subject to civil or criminal liability or to discipline for unprofessional conduct for health care decisions made in good faith.

1. A health care provider or institution that violates this act willfully or with reckless disregard of the patient's instruction or health care decision is subject to liability to the aggrieved individual for damages of five hundred dollars ($500.00) or actual damages resulting from the violation, whichever is greater, plus reasonable attorney's fees.
2. A person who intentionally falsifies, forges, conceals, defaces or obliterates an individual's advance health care directive or a revocation of an advance health care directive without the individual's consent, or who coerces or fraudulently induces an individual to give, revoke or not to give an advance health care directive, is subject to liability to that individual for damages of two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500.00) or actual damages resulting from the action, whichever is greater, plus reasonable attorney's fees.

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