AN ACT Relating to protecting patient care. Prohibits a health care entity from the following, if a health care provider is acting in good faith, within the provider’s authorized scope of practice, and within the relevant standard of care: (1) Limiting the provider’s provision of medically accurate and comprehensive information and resources to a patient regarding his or her health status;
(2) Limiting the provider’s provision of information
regarding the death with dignity act; or (3) Prohibiting the provider from providing health services in cases in which failure to provide the service would violate the accepted standard of care or when the patient presents a certain medical condition. Requires the department of health to design, prepare, and make available online, written materials to clearly inform health care providers and staff of the provisions of, and authority to act under, this act and the federal emergency medical treatment and labor act.