Business Ethics in Healthcare Beyond Compliance

Name: Business Ethics in Healthcare Beyond Compliance
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ISBN: 9780253338402

ISBN-10: 0253338409

ISBN-13: 9780253338402

Edition: 2001

Authors: Leonard J. Weber, Leonard J. Weber

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Business Ethics in Healthcare starts with the understanding that management is already addressing the need to ensure that the organisation is in compliance with relevant laws and regulations. This is just the start in addressing business ethics issues in healthcare organisations.As providers of high quality patient care with limited resources, management needs to be able to distinguish between the right way and the wrong way of taking cost into consideration when making decisions about patient care practices.As employers, management needs to be able to employ good criteria for determining wages and salaries. Management needs to know what it means to make fair decisions about downsizing.…

Book details

List price: $35.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 3/22/2001
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 216
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.25" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.276

Leonard J. Weber was on the faculty of the University of Detroit Mercy for more than 30 years. He is now an ethics consultant to healthcare organizations and is author of Business Ethics in Healthcare (IUP, 2001). He lives in Detroit, Michigan.



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Beyond Compliance, Beyond Integrity, Beyond Clinical Ethics



Business Ethics with a Difference



Healthcare Business Ethics



Ethics Is Not Neutral: A Framework for Making Decisions



The Organization as Caregiver



Ethics, Cost, and the Quality of Care



Patient Rights in a Just Organization



Clinicians and Conflicts of Interest: A Focus on Management



A Fair Hearing of Appeals of Denied Coverage in Managed Care Plans



Organizational Ethics: A Code Is Only the Beginning



The Organization as Employer



Just Wages and Salaries



Ethics and Downsizing



Patient Requests for Healthcare Providers of a Specific Race or Sex



Conscientious Objection to Participation in Certain Treatment Options



Union Organizing and Employee Strikes



The Organization as Citizen



Responsible Advertising



Environmental Responsibility and the Precautionary Principle



Community Serving Mergers and Acquisitions



Socially Responsible Investing



Institutionalizing Business and Management Ethics



Components of a Business Ethics Program



The Organizational Ethics Committee


Notes


Index