2023 CODE OF GEORGIA
Title 31 - HEALTH (§§ 31-1-1 — 31-54-4)
Chapter 7 - REGULATION AND CONSTRUCTION OF HOSPITALS AND OTHER HEALTH CARE FACILITIES (§§ 31-7-1 — 31-7-435)
Article 9 - HOSPICE CARE (§§ 31-7-170 — 31-7-179)
Section 31-7-176.1 - Determination or pronouncement of death

Universal Citation:
GA Code § 31-7-176.1 (2023)
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When a patient who is terminally ill or whose death is anticipated and who is receiving hospice care from a licensed hospice dies, a physician assistant, a nurse practitioner, or a registered professional nurse licensed in this state and employed by such hospice at the time of apparent death of such person, in the absence of an attending physician, may make the determination and pronouncement of the death of said patient. Such determination or pronouncement shall be made in writing on a form approved by the commissioner of community health.

Amended by 2017 Ga. Laws 236,§ 2, eff. 7/1/2017.

Amended by 2009 Ga. Laws 102,§ 1-6, eff. 7/1/2009.


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