Why Ethics?
A well conceived ethics program developed by a seasoned professional ethicist and targeted to your organization can provide a quality and cost effective solution to your ethics needs, and much more:
Having a well-supported highly functional ethics program can assist you and your organization in the achievement of your strategic goals, translating your core values into practice and making a tangible impact on quality, safety, and cost-effectiveness; patient and employee satisfaction; conflict resolution; regulatory and accreditation compliance; risk management; recruitment and retention; and public image.
Why The Ethics Practice?
With over thirty years experience as an ethics consultant in a variety of health care settings, I have:
Some concrete examples of how I can help your organization achieve its goals and objectives are to create a climate within which:
Having a strong ethics program in place can support excellence in ethics decision making in these areas and more at the board, executive leadership, staff, and bedside level.
- The necessary breadth and depth of knowledge and experience to assess your organization’s ethics strengths and weaknesses
- A proven track record designing and implementing ethics programs that work
- The ability and credibility to work comfortably with both executive leadership and front line staff
- The vision and experience of shaping ethics programs so they are aligned with and supportive of organizational values, goals, and priorities
Some concrete examples of how I can help your organization achieve its goals and objectives are to create a climate within which:
- Ethical concerns are raised and addressed
- Conflicts are managed effectively
- Disruptive, inappropriate, or intimidating behavior is addressed proactively
- The highest ethical standards guide purchasing, billing, contracting, reimbursement, and advertising practices
- Conflicts of interest are identified and managed appropriately
- Clinical staff are equipped to protect patient privacy, ensure genuine informed consent, identify appropriate surrogate decision makers, manage conflicts over appropriate intensity of treatment, remove obstacles to appropriate pain and symptom management, provide excellent palliative and end of life care, and appropriately manage instances of medical error
Having a strong ethics program in place can support excellence in ethics decision making in these areas and more at the board, executive leadership, staff, and bedside level.