Michigan Legislature

  (1) "Medical control authority" means that term as defined in section 20906.

  (2) "Patient" means an adult with an advanced illness or means an adult with another medical condition that, despite available curative therapies or modulation, compromises his or her health so as to make death within 1 year foreseeable though not a specific or predicted prognosis.

  (3) "Patient advocate" means an individual presently authorized to make medical treatment decisions on behalf of a patient under sections 5506 to 5515 of the estates and protected individuals code, 1998 PA 386, MCL 700.5506 to 700.5515.

  (4) "Patient representative" means a patient advocate or a guardian.

  (5) "Person" means that term as defined in section 1106 or a governmental entity.

  (6) "Physician" means that term as defined in section 17001 or 17501.

  (7) "Physician orders for scope of treatment form" or "POST form" means the standardized POST form described in section 5676. A POST form is not an advance health care directive.

  (8) "Physician's assistant" means an individual licensed as a physician's assistant under part 170 or part 175.

  (9) "Residential setting" means a setting outside of a hospital, including, but not limited to, an adult foster care facility.

  (10) "Ward" means that term as defined in section 1108 of the estates and protected individuals code, 1998 PA 386, MCL 700.1108.