Business ethics in healthcare : beyond compliance / Leonard J. Weber.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weber, Leonard J., 1942-

Series:

Medical ethics series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical ethics.

Business ethics.

Physical Description:

xiv, 196 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2001.

Summary:

The author offers perspectives that can assist healthcare managers in achieving the highest ethical standards as they face their roles as healthcare providers, employers, and community service organizations. He also examines how to comply with relevant laws and regulations, provide high quality patient care with limited resources, and more.

Contents:

Introduction: Beyond Compliance, Beyond Integrity, Beyond Clinical Ethics xi

Part I. Business Ethics with a Difference

1 Healthcare Business Ethics 3

2 Ethics Is Not Neutral: A Framework for Making Decisions 13

Part II. The Organization as Caregiver

3 Ethics, Cost, and the Quality of Care 25

4 Patient Rights in a Just Organization 35

5 Clinicians and Conflicts of Interest: A Focus on Management 44

6 A Fair Hearing of Appeals of Denied Coverage in Managed Care Plans 53

7 Organizational Ethics: A Code Is Only the Beginning 62

Part III. The Organization as Employer

8 Just Wages and Salaries 73

9 Ethics and Downsizing 82

10 Patient Requests for Healthcare Providers of a Specific Race or Sex 91

11 Conscientious Objection to Participation in Certain Treatment Options 100

12 Union Organizing and Employee Strikes 109

Part IV. The Organization as Citizen

13 Responsible Advertising 121

14 Environmental Responsibility and the Precautionary Principle 130

15 Community Serving Mergers and Acquisitions 140

16 Socially Responsible Investing 150

Part V. Institutionalizing Business and Management Ethics

17 Components of a Business Ethics Program 161

18 The Organizational Ethics Committee 171.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [181]-188) and index.

ISBN:

0253338409

OCLC:

44493256