Website Focusing on Pennsylvania Medical Decisions Goes On-line

Neil E. Hendershot of the Harrisburg, Pennsylvania law firm of Goldberg Katzman, P.C., who authors the PA Elder, Estate & Fiduciary Law Blog, has just brought on-line PA HealthCare DecisionMaking which “focuses on individual & representative health care decision-making, including aging, medical, & “end-of-life” decisions, in Pennsylvania, after the enactment of Act 169 of 2006, effective January 29, 2007.”

Neil explains that the website has four aspects:

• A complete, but unofficial statement of the new Chapter 54, of Title 20 of the PA Probate, Estates & Fiduciaries Code, section by section, with internal cross-references;
• Legal background information, including cases & statutes, regarding representative and end-of-life health care decision-making;
• Extensive Pennsylvania legislative background material, developed since 1998, leading to the enactment of Act 169 in 2006; and
• A “web portal”, of sorts, that provides links to organizations, resources, articles, forms, and other information on the expansive, multi-disciplinary, aspects of personal health care decision-making.