Creating Proxies in Nursing Homes
Nursing homes must establish procedures to educate residents about how to create and use a health care proxy. These procedures must meet the requirements of New York State Department of Health regulations and must:
- inform adult residents about their fight to create Proxies;
- educate adult residents about the authority delegated under a health care proxy, what a proxy may include or omit, and how to create and revoke a proxy; and
- help ensure that each resident who creates a proxy while residing at the facility does so voluntarily.
