Delaware Health Care Laws
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Welcome to FindLaw's section on Delaware health care laws, with articles that address patients' rights, regulations affecting end-of-life procedures, and more. This section provides information about the regulation of durable powers of attorney laws, which allow a trusted individual to make crucial health care and end-of-life decisions on behalf of the named patient, and regulation of living wills, which are similarly related to end-of-life decisions. This section also includes information about Delaware's abortion laws, regulations protecting sensitive medical information, laws governing physician-assisted suicide, and the state's civil statutes of limitations. Click on a link below to learn more about a given health care law topic.