Rhode Island Advance Directive Guide

A Rhode Island advance directive comes in two separate documents. R.I. Gen. Laws chapter 23-4.10 carries the durable power of attorney for health care, which names an agent to decide for you. Chapter 23-4.11, the Rights of the Terminally Ill Act, carries the declaration, better known as a living will. Rhode Island never merged them, and each one signs differently.

One Rhode Island fact should move the paperwork to the top of your list this week. If you sign nothing and later cannot speak for yourself, no spouse, adult child or parent inherits the power to consent or refuse on your behalf. This state wrote no default surrogate list. Treat what follows as a planning map for chapters 23-4.10 and 23-4.11, and confirm anything touching your own care with a licensed Rhode Island attorney or your own physician. Money and property run on their own instrument, so read this alongside the separate financial power of attorney.

Two Documents, Two Chapters, Two Vocabularies

Rhode Island calls the appointment a durable power of attorney for health care and calls the person you name an agent or an attorney in fact. It calls the instruction document a declaration and calls you the declarant. Once your attending physician determines you are in a terminal condition, § 23-4.11-2(16) makes you a qualified patient.

The state never adopted the words health care proxy, health care representative or surrogate. Any Rhode Island page using them is borrowing vocabulary from Connecticut, New York or Massachusetts, and the borrowed rules usually come with it.

Sign the first two together. The agent covers every decision that is not written down, and the declaration covers the one decision you want taken out of anyone else's hands.

How to Sign the Health Care Power of Attorney

Section 23-4.10-2 prints the whole form, and the execution rule sits in capital letters on the signature page: the document "WILL NOT BE VALID UNLESS IT IS SIGNED BY ONE NOTARY PUBLIC OR TWO (2) QUALIFIED WITNESSES WHO ARE PRESENT WHEN YOU SIGN OR ACKNOWLEDGE YOUR SIGNATURE." The warning block at the top adds that you must be at least eighteen and a resident of the state.

Five details people miss:

• A notary alone finishes the job. The form gives Option 1, two qualified witnesses, and Option 2, one notary public. They are true alternatives, and Rhode Island is unusual in offering the notary route for a health care document.
• One agent only. The designation paragraph asks for the name, address and telephone number "of one individual only." Co-agents have no place on this form. The form provides for a first alternate agent and a second alternate agent instead, and they serve in the order listed.
• Somebody has to swear the extra declaration. At least one of the two witnesses, or the notary, signs a second statement under penalty of perjury: not related to you by blood, marriage or adoption, and to the best of that person's knowledge not entitled to any part of your estate under an existing will or by operation of law. Only one signer has to make it.
• Extra pages get their own signature. Attach a page of instructions and you must date and sign each attached page at the same time you date and sign the form itself.
• The document revokes the last one. Paragraph (9) revokes any prior durable power of attorney for health care, so signing a fresh form retires the old one automatically.

Two people cannot serve as your agent. Section 23-4.10-2 rules out your treating health care provider, a nonrelative employee of that provider, an operator of a community care facility, and a nonrelative employee of such an operator. Read the word nonrelative carefully. Your daughter who works at the hospital treating you is still eligible to be your agent, because the bar carves relatives out.

Your agent's authority runs until you revoke it unless you write an expiration date into the DURATION paragraph. It stops at your death, with one narrow exception: the agent may still tell your family or next of kin that you wished to be an organ and tissue donor, and paragraph (4)(c) carries an initialled box for exactly that request. If your agent is your spouse and the marriage is dissolved, the form makes that person ineligible to act.

How to Sign the Living Will Declaration

Section 23-4.11-3(a) is one sentence long and it governs everything. A competent individual eighteen or older may execute a declaration governing the withholding or withdrawal of life sustaining procedures, and the declaration "must be signed by the declarant, or another at the declarant's direction in the presence of two (2) subscribing witnesses who are not related to the declarant by blood or marriage."

Three things follow. Someone else may sign for you at your direction, which the § 23-4.10-2 form does not allow. You need two witnesses and no notary is offered. And the only witness disqualification is a family relationship.

Section 23-4.11-3(d) prints an optional form and says a declaration "may, but need not, be in the following form," so your own wording is fine when it meets the Act. Whatever form you use, look for the feeding election. The printed form reads: this authorization "includes ( ) does not include ( ) the withholding or withdrawal of artificial feeding (check only one box above)." Artificial feeding has its own definition at § 23-4.11-2(2), covering nutrition or hydration by parenteral, nasogastric, gastric or any route other than swallowing. Leave that box blank and your declaration has said nothing about a feeding tube.

The Witness Rules Are Not the Same, and That Is the Trap

Copying one chapter's witness rule onto the other document is the likeliest way to sign an invalid paper in Rhode Island. Here is the side by side.

Seat two adults who are unrelated to you, do not work in health care, are not named anywhere in either document, and stand to inherit nothing from you. That set clears both statutes at once, and one signing session then produces two valid papers.

When Each Document Actually Turns On

Rhode Island content gets this backwards more often than any other point on the topic, so read the two triggers separately.

Your durable power of attorney needs no terminal condition. Section 23-4.10-5(a) says you decide about life sustaining procedures as long as you are able to do so, and that if you are not able, the durable power of attorney governs. That is the whole test. No second physician, no written certificate, no diagnosis requirement. The Department of Health states the same thing in plain words on its own advance directives page: you do not have to have a terminal condition to activate the durable power of attorney for health care.

Your declaration does need one, plus two more conditions. Section 23-4.11-3(c) gives it operative effect only when the declaration has been communicated to your attending physician, that physician has determined you to be in a terminal condition, and you are unable to make treatment decisions. Terminal condition means an incurable or irreversible condition that, without life sustaining procedures, will in the attending physician's opinion result in death.

One physician does that work. Rhode Island asks for no concurring second opinion and no specialist consultation. Section 23-4.11-5 then requires the attending physician who has notice of a declaration, on determining terminal condition, to record both the determination and the substance of the declaration in your medical record. Skipping that entry is unprofessional conduct under § 23-4.11-9(b).

Both documents keep your voice on top while you still have one. No treatment may be given over your objection at the time, and care necessary to keep you alive may not be stopped or withheld if you object at the time.

Rhode Island Gives Your Family No Default Authority

Here is the reason to sign, stated plainly. Neither chapter ranks your relatives, and neither does any other Rhode Island statute.

The only definition on offer is circular. Section 23-4.11-2(7) says a "healthcare decision maker" means "a person authorized by law or by the qualified patient to make healthcare decisions for the qualified patient." That sentence points at some other source of authority and supplies none of its own. Chapter 23-4.10 carries no surrogate provision at all. Section 23-4.6-1 lets a person aged sixteen or over consent to routine, emergency, medical or surgical care, and that section governs consent for yourself, never for another adult. Rhode Island's Supported Decision-Making Act does not close the gap either: § 42-66.13-6 lets a supporter help you understand information, reach your records and communicate your own decision, and gives that supporter no power to decide anything.

So authority in Rhode Island has exactly two sources.

1. The agent you named under § 23-4.10-2, who acts the moment you cannot decide.
2. A guardian or limited guardian appointed by a probate court, and only to the extent the court's order grants health care authority.

The second route is slower and more public than most families expect. Section 33-15-3 puts that power in the probate court of each city or town, so the filing goes to the municipality where the person lives rather than to any regional courthouse, and § 8-9-9 fixes each court's jurisdiction "in the town or city in which it is established." Section 33-15-4 then requires a decision making assessment tool completed by a physician, orders the court to authorize decisions only in the areas where the assessment shows lost capacity, and forbids any appointment where a less restrictive alternative meets the need. Section 33-15-8 holds a limited guardian to whatever the order says and nothing more.

Notice how that last rule cuts. The statutory petition form at § 33-15-47 lists the durable power of attorney for health care and the living will at the top of the less restrictive alternatives a petitioner has to weigh and rule out first. A family asking for health care authority in Rhode Island has to explain on the form why the two documents on this page would not have worked. Signing them takes an afternoon. For the court route, read when a court has to decide instead.

Signing nothing also proves nothing. Sections 23-4.10-9(d) and 23-4.11-10(d) each state that the chapter creates no presumption about what someone intended who revoked a document or never made one.

Pregnancy Suspends Both Documents

Rhode Island still has a pregnancy exclusion, and it is current law rather than a repealed relic. Section 23-4.10-5(c) provides that the durable power of attorney of a patient known to the attending physician to be pregnant "shall be given no force or effect as long as it is probable that the fetus could develop to the point of live birth with continued application of life sustaining procedures." Section 23-4.11-6(c) states the identical rule for the declaration.

Two limits are worth reading closely. The suspension bites only where the attending physician knows of the pregnancy, and it lasts only while live birth remains probable with continued life support. Neither chapter offers you an election or an opt-out clause the way some neighbouring states do, so a form promising you one was drafted for another state.

Revoking: Easy in Rhode Island, With One Field Exception

Both chapters use the same generous rule, and it surprises people. Section 23-4.10-3(a) and § 23-4.11-4(a)(1) both let you revoke "at any time and in any manner by which the declarant is able to communicate an intent to revoke, without regard to mental or physical condition."

Read that last clause again. Rhode Island imposes no capacity threshold on revocation, no writing requirement, no witnesses and no notice as a condition of validity. Someone who can no longer sign a new document can still cancel the old one by saying so.

Notice controls timing rather than validity. A revocation binds your attending physician, a health care provider or an ambulance crew only once it is communicated to that person, by you or by somebody who witnessed the revocation, and the provider then has to make the revocation part of your medical record. Until that communication lands, §§ 23-4.10-7 and 23-4.11-8 protect everyone acting in the absence of actual notice of a revocation from civil liability, criminal liability and unprofessional conduct charges.

The field exception runs the other way, and it costs lives of paperwork. For ambulance crews only, §§ 23-4.10-3(c) and 23-4.11-4(a)(4) treat the absence of reliable documentation as a revocation. Reliable documentation means the state-adopted nontransferable necklace or bracelet described at § 23-4.11-2(18). A perfect directive in a drawer does not travel to a roadside, and crews who go ahead and provide life sustaining treatment are immune.

That is what the bracelet under § 23-4.11-14 is for. A physician acting for a qualified patient who does not wish to be resuscitated asks the Department of Health to issue it. The bracelet carries the mark DNR, your name and address, and the ordering physician's name, address, license number and signature, and every bracelet is registered with the fire department for the city or town where you live. A bracelet that looks tampered with or removed gets ignored, and the crew may resuscitate.

When the Two Documents Disagree

Rhode Island resolves the conflict by date. Section 23-4.11-4(a)(3) provides that where a declaration under chapter 23-4.11 and a durable health care power of attorney under chapter 23-4.10 executed by the same person are inconsistent, "the latter executed document shall control as to any inconsistent provision."

The state ranks the dates rather than the document types. A living will signed after your power of attorney overrides your agent on any point where the two clash, and a power of attorney signed later overrides the living will on the same terms. Date both papers, sign them in one sitting where you can, and reread them together whenever you replace either one.

MOLST Is a Medical Order, Not a Directive

A MOLST form is your doctor's order. Section 23-4.11-3.1 lets a declaration by a qualified patient be recorded as a Medical Order for Life Sustaining Treatment once a MOLST qualified health care provider has explained the orders and the difference between an advance health care directive and a MOLST order, has evaluated the patient, and has completed a form based on the patient's preferences and medical appropriateness. The provider signs it, and so does the patient or the patient's recognized health care decision maker.

A MOLST qualified health care provider is the physician, registered nurse practitioner or physician assistant you authorize to sign the form. The order applies inside or outside a hospital. On transfer from a hospital, another licensed facility or the community, the order stays effective until a MOLST qualified provider first examines you and issues orders continuing it.

Rhode Island runs this one on a single approved form. Regulation 216-RICR-20-15-4, promulgated under chapter 23-4.11, states that the Director-approved MOLST form is the only one that may be completed and signed in the state, and that a provider may copy, store and reprint it but may not alter its contents or format. Where a chart holds more than one, the most recent form is followed until it is updated. Nursing facilities, assisted living residences, hospices, kidney dialysis centers and home health agencies have had to accept a completed form and offer each qualified patient the chance to complete one at admission since 1 January 2014.

Section 23-4.11-3.1(h) settles the pressure question: the MOLST is a voluntary option, and no patient is required to elect one. Ask your care team how a MOLST would sit alongside the two documents you sign yourself.

What Happens If a Provider Refuses

Rhode Island frames the answer as a transfer duty rather than a conscience clause. Under § 23-4.10-6 and § 23-4.11-7, an attending physician or health care provider who refuses to comply "shall make the necessary arrangements to effect the transfer of the patient to another physician who will effectuate" the document. Failing to transfer is unprofessional conduct as that term is used in § 5-37-5.1.

Tampering with somebody's directive is a crime here, not merely a civil wrong. Sections 23-4.10-8 and 23-4.11-9 carry matching schedules. Willfully concealing, cancelling, defacing or obliterating another person's document without that person's consent, or forging a revocation, draws imprisonment of no less than six months and no more than one year, or a fine of $2,000 to $5,000. Forging the document itself, or concealing knowledge of a revocation with intent to cause life sustaining procedures to be withheld, draws imprisonment of one to five years, or a fine of $5,000 to $10,000. Civil liability comes on top.

Three more protections sit in the general provisions at §§ 23-4.10-9 and 23-4.11-10. Death from a withdrawal made under either chapter is not a suicide or a homicide for any purpose. Making either document does not affect the sale, procurement or issuance of a life insurance policy, and no policy is impaired by the withdrawal. Nobody may prohibit or require either document as a condition of being insured for, or receiving, health care services. Both chapters also state that they do not condone, authorize or approve mercy killing or euthanasia.

Comfort care sits outside what either paper can switch off. Sections 23-4.10-5(b) and 23-4.11-6(b) leave untouched any action considered necessary for comfort, care or alleviation of pain, and the definition of a life sustaining procedure already excludes measures the attending physician considers necessary for comfort or pain relief.

Storage, Out-of-State Papers and the Registry Question

Neither document gets filed with a court or recorded in the land records. Rhode Island runs no advance directive registry either. The duty runs to your chart instead: § 23-4.10-4 makes an attending physician who knows a durable power of attorney exists note its existence in the medical record and enter any DNR order it contains, and § 23-4.11-3(b) makes any physician or provider given a copy of your declaration put it in the record.

The statutory form tells you what to do with the paper. Keep it where your agent can reach it immediately, or hand each agent and alternate an executed copy, and give your doctor one too.

Documents signed elsewhere travel. Section 23-4.10-11 treats a durable power of attorney executed in another state in compliance with that state's law as validly executed here, and § 23-4.11-12 says the same for a declaration. Rhode Island asks whether the paper met the law where you signed it, not whether it matches the Rhode Island form. Signing a fresh Rhode Island set anyway removes the argument at the bedside, which is where the argument would otherwise happen.

Your provider gets to rely on what you hand over. Sections 23-4.10-10 and 23-4.11-11 let a physician, health care provider or ambulance crew presume, in the absence of actual notice to the contrary, that your document complies with its chapter and is valid.

Capacity starts in your favour, and Rhode Island keeps that presumption outside the health chapters. Section 42-66.13-4 presumes every adult capable of managing their affairs, says the manner in which an adult communicates is no ground for deciding otherwise, and bars a supported decision-making agreement from being used as evidence of incapacity.

A Rhode Island Signing Sequence

1. Ask your first choice of agent, then your two alternates, before you write any name down. Talk through what a good outcome looks like to you rather than handing over a signed page.
2. Fill out the § 23-4.10-2 form. One agent in paragraph (1), your instructions and limits in paragraph (4), the organ donation box if you want it, and an expiration date only if you actually want the authority to lapse.
3. Fill out the § 23-4.11-3 declaration separately, and check the artificial feeding box either way so the answer is on the page.
4. Book one signing session. Bring two adults who are unrelated to you, work outside health care, are named in neither document, and inherit nothing from you.
5. Sign and date both papers in front of both witnesses, sign every attached page at the same time, and have one witness sign the extra not-related and not-an-heir declaration on your power of attorney. A notary can replace both witnesses there, never on the declaration.
6. Hand copies to your agent, both alternates and your doctor, and confirm the copy reached your medical record.
7. Ask your physician about a MOLST form and, where a field DNR matters to you, about the § 23-4.11-14 bracelet. Neither is a substitute for the two documents you just signed.
8. Reread everything after a marriage, a divorce, a move or a hard diagnosis, collect the old copies when you replace a document, and tell your doctor and your agent in writing.

The medical half is one part of a wider file. Rhode Island power of attorney covers who pays your bills, Rhode Island estate planning basics lays out the rest of the document set, Rhode Island guardianship planning covers the court route, and the Rhode Island probate and estate directory ties the state pages together.

Frequently Asked Questions

Does a Rhode Island advance directive need to be notarized?

The two documents answer differently, which is why one blanket answer misleads people. The statutory durable power of attorney for health care at § 23-4.10-2 says in capital letters that it is not valid unless it is signed by one notary public or two qualified witnesses who are present when you sign or acknowledge your signature, so a notary alone works. The living will declaration under § 23-4.11-3 has no notary option at all. It takes two subscribing witnesses who are not related to you by blood or marriage.

Who makes medical decisions in Rhode Island if I have no advance directive?

Nobody, until a probate court appoints somebody. Rhode Island enacted no default surrogate statute. Section 23-4.11-2(7) defines a healthcare decision maker only as a person authorized by law or by the qualified patient, which names no relatives and ranks nobody. Section 23-4.6-1 covers consent to your own care and confers no authority over another adult. Where a family needs authority, the route is a guardianship petition under chapter 33-15 in the probate court of the city or town where the person lives.

Can the same person witness both of my Rhode Island health care documents?

Often yes, but check both bars before you seat anyone. Your health care power of attorney at § 23-4.10-2 disqualifies your agent, your alternate agents, any health care provider, any employee of a health care provider, the operator of a community care facility and that operator's employees, and it does not disqualify relatives. The living will at § 23-4.11-3 does the opposite: it disqualifies anyone related to you by blood or marriage and disqualifies nobody by occupation. A friend who works outside health care clears both.

Does a Rhode Island living will stop working during pregnancy?

Yes, and this is live Rhode Island law rather than a historical footnote. Sections 23-4.10-5(c) and 23-4.11-6(c) both provide that the document of a patient known to the attending physician to be pregnant is given no force or effect as long as it is probable that the fetus could develop to the point of live birth with continued application of life sustaining procedures. The suspension covers both documents, and the physician applies it only where that physician knows of the pregnancy.

What happens if my Rhode Island living will and my health care power of attorney disagree?

The later signed document wins on the point where they conflict. Section 23-4.11-4(a)(3) says that where a declaration under chapter 23-4.11 and a durable health care power of attorney under chapter 23-4.10 executed by the same person are inconsistent, the latter executed document controls as to any inconsistent provision. Rhode Island ranks the dates rather than the document types, so date both papers and sign them the same day if you want them read together.

This page is general information about incapacity planning in Rhode Island, and R.I. Gen. Laws chapters 23-4.10 and 23-4.11 control. Two cross-references inside the printed code point at the wrong section and will confuse anyone checking behind this page: § 23-4.11-4(a)(4) cites "§ 23-4.11-2(6)" for reliable documentation, which is now subdivision (18), and § 23-4.10-9(b) refers to the making of a durable power of attorney "pursuant to § 23-4.10-3," which is the revocation section rather than the form. Both are numbering artifacts from later amendments, and neither changes the rules above. Confirm anything affecting your own care with a licensed Rhode Island attorney or your own physician before you sign.

Sources:

• Title: R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-4.10-1, Purpose. Publisher: Rhode Island General Assembly. Publication Date: Not listed. URL: https://webserver.rilegislature.gov/Statutes/TITLE23/23-4.10/23-4.10-1.htm
• Title: R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-4.10-1.1, Definitions. Publisher: Rhode Island General Assembly. Publication Date: Not listed. URL: https://webserver.rilegislature.gov/Statutes/TITLE23/23-4.10/23-4.10-1.1.htm
• Title: R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-4.10-2, Statutory form of durable power of attorney. Publisher: Rhode Island General Assembly. Publication Date: Not listed. URL: https://webserver.rilegislature.gov/Statutes/TITLE23/23-4.10/23-4.10-2.htm
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It is not legal advice.