ISDH Updates Advance Directives Brochure and Creates an Advance Directives Resource Center

The Indiana State Department of Health (ISDH) has released an updated version of their Advance Directives – Your Right to Decide brochure.  You may access at the following link:  http://www.in.gov/isdh/files/advanceddirectives.pdf.  The updated version revises guidance concerning Out of Hospital Do Not Resuscitate Orders, and includes a description of the new Physician Orders for Scope of Treatment (POST) form, which is due out on or around July 1, 2013 (for a summary of the POST form and law, see http://blog.ihca.org/2013/06/indiana-physician-orders-for-scope-of.html).   

In addition, the ISDH has created a new Advance Directives Resource Center website with links to the several advance directives authorized under Indiana law.  See http://www.in.gov/isdh/25880.htm for more information.