Managing Healthcare Ethically: An Executive's Guide

Softbound, 355 pages
ISBN 1567933440
978-1567933444
Health Administration Press
December 2009
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"This volume fills an aching void in healthcare management ethics. It promises to be the go-to book for students and managers seeking to address business and professional ethics in a healthcare environment." - Kenneth W. Goodman, University of Miami Ethics Program

Well-crafted policies and procedures do not ensure an ethical organization; it is the result of leadership and staff acknowledging the importance of ethics in their everyday work life. This book can help you and your managers cope with and respond to everyday ethical issues.

Ethical dilemmas are common in healthcare management. Although there is no handbook providing absolute solutions to ethics challenges, healthcare leaders can seek guidance and insight from others who have tackled similar issues.

This anthology of columns on ethics from Healthcare Executive magazine covers many of the common ethical issues you encounter. The book is organized by topic so you locate advice about a current conflict easily. Recommended by the American College of Healthcare Executives, the timeless topics covered in this book include:

The executive's role in clinical matters
Respecting proprietary information
Ethical issues surrounding managed care
The ethics of downsizing
Balancing professional and personal priorities
Trust and physician payment
Reporting unethical behavior
Protecting patient rights
Allocating limited capital resources
Publicizing superior care
Dealing with noncompliant patients

Special note to CEOs, CNOs, CMOs, CFOs, and Compliance Officers: You may wish to purchase a quantity of this inexpensive book in order to lead your staff through enlightened agreements regarding ethical management. Your documented training of your staff, using this book, will work in your favor in terms of preventing legal liabilities as well as demonstrating your commitment to ethics should you ever be inspected by the government.

Managing Healthcare Ethically provides advice and inspiration from healthcare executives, ethicists, scholars, educators, and consultants. This collection of ethics columns from Healthcare Executive magazine will guide healthcare managers and executives in making personal and organizational decisions. This edition includes more than forty new columns and focuses on four ethics areas: ethical leadership issues, organization and management ethics issues, clinical ethics issues, and ethics committees and programs.

Paul B. Hofmann, Dr.P.H., FACHE, is vice president of Provenance Health Partners in Moraga, California. In the past, he has been the executive vice president and chief operating officer of the Alta Bates Corporation, executive director of Emory University Hospital, and director of Stanford University Hospital and Clinics. William A. Nelson, Ph.D., is an adjunct associate professor of Psychiatry (ethics) and Community and Family Medicine (ethics) at Dartmouth Medical School and the Department of Psychiatry at New York University School of Medicine.

Founded in 1933, the American College of Healthcare Executives is an international professional society of 30,000 healthcare executives who lead our nation's hospitals, healthcare systems, and other healthcare organizations. ACHE's publishing division, Health Administration Press, is one of the largest publishers of books and journals on all aspects of health services management.

Health Administration Press is a division of the Foundation of the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE). ACHE is an international professional society of 30,000 healthcare executives who lead our nation's hospitals, healthcare systems, and other healthcare organizations. ACHE is known for its prestigious credentialing and educational programs and its annual Congress on Healthcare Management, which draws more than 4,000 participants each year. ACHE is also known for its magazine, Healthcare Executive, as well as its groundbreaking research and career development and public policy programs. Through such efforts, ACHE works toward its goal of being the premier professional society for healthcare leaders by providing exceptional value to its members.

Founded in 1972 with support from the W. K. Kellogg Foundation, Health Administration Press has grown from a small office on the campus of the University of Michigan to one of the largest publishers of books and journals on all aspects of health services management, including textbooks for use in college and university courses.

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