New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 10 - HUMAN SERVICES
Chapter 48B - DECISION-MAKING FOR THE TERMINALLY ILL
Subchapter 3 - ETHICS COMMITTEES
Section 10:48B-3.1 - Recognition of Ethics Committees
Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 18, September 16, 2024
(a) The Assistant Commissioner or his or her designee shall recognize acute care hospital Ethics Committees and standing Ethics Committees to be independent of the Division of Developmental Disabilities that shall be available for consultation to BGS whenever end-of-life decision-making issues arise.
(b) After an Ethics Committee has been recognized by the Assistant Commissioner, or his or her designee, for end-of-life consultation, the chairperson of the Ethics Committee shall assure the continuing applicability of the elements contained under (a) above.
(c) A recognized ethics committee, whether it is an acute care hospital committee or otherwise recognized committee, shall include a pool of membership optimally drawn from different disciplines, such as the following:
(d) An absolute minimum of three of the committee members must participate in any ethics consultation.