Prohibits certain forms of discrimination in DOH policies concerning allocation of critical health care resources.

This bill (A 1774) requires New Jersey's Department of Health (DOH) to create critical health care resource allocation policies that comply with federal anti-discrimination laws. It directly affects hospitals, nursing homes, and the DOH by banning policies that exclude or deprioritize people with disabilities from receiving resources based on their disability, using long-term survivability in treatment decisions, or reallocating ventilators from people who normally need them. The bill also mandates hospitals to adjust scoring systems to avoid penalizing patients with unrelated health conditions and prohibits blanket "do not resuscitate" orders, requiring policies to respect individual patient preferences through advance directives or POLST forms. These changes apply to all resource allocation during shortages, such as for beds, equipment, or medications.