§327K-1 - Definitions. - Hawaii Statutes

     [§327K-1]  Definitions.  As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:

     "Department" means the department of health.

     "Form" means a physician orders for life-sustaining treatment form adopted by the department.

     "Health care provider" means an individual licensed, certified, or otherwise authorized or permitted by law to provide health care in the ordinary course of the individual's business or profession.

     "Patient's physician" means a physician licensed pursuant to chapter 453 who has examined the patient.

     "Physician orders for life-sustaining treatment form" means a form signed by a patient, or if incapacitated, by the patient's surrogate and the patient's physician, that records the patient's wishes and that directs a health care provider regarding the provision of resuscitative and life-sustaining measures.  A physician orders for life-sustaining treatment form is not an advance health-care directive.

     "Surrogate" shall have the same meaning as in section 327E-2. [L 2009, c 186, pt of §1]