Oregon Senate Bill 1606: Relating To Health Care; Creating New Provisions; Amending ORS 127.635 & Declaring An Emergency

The bill was signed on June 29, 2020. It prohibits Oregon hospitals from conditioning admission or treatment, or suggesting that treatment is conditioned, on whether consumers have Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST), an advance directive, or other instruction regarding administration, withholding or withdrawing of life-sustaining procedures or artificially administered nutrition and hydration . . .