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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weber, Leonard J., 1942-

Series:

Medical ethics series.

Medical ethics series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Business ethics.

Medical ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (212 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Healthcare ethics is not just about decisions made at the bedside. It is also about decisions made in executive offices and in boardrooms. Business Ethics in Healthcare offers perspectives that can assist healthcare managers achieve the highest ethical standards as they face their roles as healthcare providers, employers, and community service organizations. Weber suggests guidelines and criteria based on the understanding that the healthcare organization is committed to patients' rights, to careful st

Contents:

Title; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Beyond Compliance, Beyond Integrity, Beyond Clinical Ethics; One: Healthcare Business Ethics; Two: Ethics Is Not Neutral: A Framework for Making Decisions; Three: Ethics, Cost, and the Quality of Care; Four: Patient Rights in a Just Organization; Five: Clininians and Conflicts of Interest, A Focus on Management; Six: A Fair Hearing of Appeals of Denied Coverage in Managed Care Plans; Seven: Organizational Ethics, A Code Is Only the Beginning; Eight: Just Wages and Salaries; Nine: Ethics and Downsizing

Ten: Patient Requests for Healthcare Provider of a Specific Race or SexEleven: Conscientious Objection to Participation in Certain Treatment Options; Twelve: Union Organizing and Employee Strikes; Thirteen: Responsible Advertising; Fourteen: Environmental Responsibility and the Precautionary Principle; Fifteen: Community Serving Mergers and Acquisitions; Sixteen: Socially Responsible Investing; Seventeen: Components of a Business Ethics Program; Eighteen: The Organizational Ethics Committee; Notes; Index; About the Author

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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

ISBN:

1-282-06301-4

9786612063015

0-253-10920-5

OCLC:

232160903