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37.10.101    DEFINITIONS

(1) "Comfort one" means a comprehensive, statewide program of identifying, providing palliative care and withholding resuscitative measures to terminally ill patients who have declared living wills or for whom a physician has issued a do-not-resuscitate order. Comfort one may also be used as an identifying term in educational programs for pre-hospital care providers, patients, physicians, hospital, hospice, home health and other medical personnel.

(2) "Comfort one form" means a uniform, single form for state-wide use, approved by the department, indicating either that a valid and current declaration pursuant to 50-9-103 , MCA, has been executed and that the declarant is a qualified patient, or that a physician has issued a do-not-resuscitate order for the patient. The form must contain the following:

(a) name, sex, and birth date of the patient;

(b) signature of the patient's attending physician or representative of a licensed hospice program in which the patient is enrolled;

(c) comfort one logo;

(d) the method by which a declaration may be revoked, if desired; and

(e) an explanation of comfort one, including the actions emergency care providers will take when presented with comfort one identification.

(3) "Comfort one card" means a uniform statewide identification card, approved by the department, indicating that a comfort one form has been issued to the patient and containing the following identifying information:

(a) name, sex, and birth date of the patient;

(b) comfort one logo;

(c) signature of the patient's attending physician or representative of a licensed hospice program in which the patient is enrolled; and

(d) the method by which a declaration may be revoked, if desired.

(4) "Comfort one logo" means a standard, statewide graphic display, including the words "comfort one", approved by the department, which must be displayed on comfort one forms, cards, necklaces, and bracelets.

(5) "Comfort one necklace or bracelet" means a necklace or bracelet of uniform statewide design, approved by the department, and indicating that a comfort one form has been issued to the patient. The comfort one necklace or bracelet must prominently display the comfort one logo and may only be issued to patients on verification that they have a comfort one form.

History: Sec. 50-9-110, MCA; IMP, Sec. 50-9-102, MCA; NEW, 1989 MAR p. 2232, Eff. 12/22/89; TRANS, from DHES, 1997 MAR p. 1462.

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