{"id":3231,"date":"2026-02-20T23:51:02","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T23:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.survivalcoalitionwi.org\/?p=3231"},"modified":"2026-02-20T23:51:04","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T23:51:04","slug":"statement-on-passage-of-ab-598-bill-lets-hospital-pick-a-decision-maker-puts-patients-rights-at-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.survivalcoalitionwi.org\/index.php\/2026\/updates\/statement-on-passage-of-ab-598-bill-lets-hospital-pick-a-decision-maker-puts-patients-rights-at-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement on passage of AB 598: Bill lets hospital pick a decision maker, puts patient&#8217;s rights at risk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today the state Assembly passed AB 598, which lets hospitals pick a decision-maker&nbsp;based on a list set in statute (called a Patient\u2019s Representative) if a patient does not have a Power of Attorney for Health care and becomes unable to make medical decisions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>AB 598 bill has been amended three times, including the introduction of sub-amendments on the same day the bill was scheduled for a floor vote in the Assembly. <strong>This legislation would benefit from bringing together all stakeholders, including patient advocates, to ensure any new decision-making process addresses hospital discharge concerns without doing any harm to medically incapacitated persons. <\/strong>These amendments reviewed to date do not address the core issues of concern to patient advocates, and recent changes raise additional questions for advocates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.survivalcoalitionwi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/PresStatement-on-passage-of-AB-598.pdf\">Read full Press Release here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today the state Assembly passed AB 598, which lets hospitals pick a decision-maker&nbsp;based on a list set in statute (called a Patient\u2019s Representative) if a patient does not have a Power of Attorney for Health care and becomes unable to make medical decisions. AB 598 bill has been amended three times, including the introduction of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.survivalcoalitionwi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3231"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.survivalcoalitionwi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.survivalcoalitionwi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.survivalcoalitionwi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.survivalcoalitionwi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.survivalcoalitionwi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3232,"href":"http:\/\/www.survivalcoalitionwi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3231\/revisions\/3232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.survivalcoalitionwi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.survivalcoalitionwi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.survivalcoalitionwi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}