“A hospital cannot do this on its own”
I don’t know where you work but you need to get out more
Hospitals have done this and ARE doing this. My nurse practitioner cousin who works in a university tertiary care hospital in one of the largest cities in the US called me to say how distressed she was that COVID patients in her ICU were marked as DNR, which is just one of a multitude of examples I can cite.
Family consent is not being obtained. Are you aware of how the CARES Act stripped patients of their rights? Hospitals have been empowered to do this garbage and the ghouls have certainly seized the opportunity
I am aware
And CARES is being abused if this is going on. Your APRN acquaintance has the authority to properly list code status. I suggest she or he do it. My orders on code status in CCM cannot be changed by anyone but another physician. We don’t change orders of our colleagues s it pertains to code.
Unless you are in the hospital practicing please do not tell me you know what is going on. I am at bedside every day. Are you?