Managing Healthcare Ethically, Third Edition, Volume 2: Organizational Concerns

Healthcare systems tailor their structure and policies to create an ethically aligned organization. The best organizational practices and cultures are built on strong and consistent ethical decision-making that ensures quality and value-based patient care. Managing Healthcare Ethically: Organizational Concerns focuses on how a healthcare organization’s ethical decisions and actions affect its operations and overall mission. The book establishes the need for clear policies and guidelines that foster and sustain an ethically grounded organization. Gathering columns originally published in American College of Healthcare Executives publications, in particular Healthcare Executive magazine, this volume provides strategies for governing boards, committees, and individual leaders to define and improve their organization’s ethical standards of practice.

William A. Nelson, PhD, MDiv, HFACHE, is director of the Ethics and Human Values Program and a professor in the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, the Department of Medical Education, and the Department of Community and Family Medicine at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine. He serves as the director of multiple courses for Dartmouth’s three master of public health programs and medical school, focusing on healthcare ethics. He also is an adjunct professor at New York University’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. He was the principal investigator o Paul B. Hofmann, DrPH, LFACHE, is president of the Hofmann Healthcare Group in Moraga, California. Although he devotes a majority of his time to pro bono activities, he continues to write, speak, and consult on ethical issues in healthcare and to serve as an advisor to healthcare companies and as an expert witness. Dr. Hofmann has served as executive director of Emory University Hospital and director of Stanford University Hospital and Clinics. For 19 years, he coordinated the annual two-day ethics seminar for the American College of Healthcare Executives. He is coeditor of Management Mistake