This comprehensive and much-needed resource helps health care ethicists to meet the demand of challenges such as managed care, medical technology, and patient activism. Through a review of core principles and a rich selection of cases, practitioners and students will learn to apply ethics in the day-to-day administration of health care organizations. The authors are from the Park Ridge Center, the nationally acclaimed consulting and research firm.

PHILIP J. BOYLE is chief operating officer at The Park Ridge Center for the Study of Health, Faith, and Ethics.

Foreword	p. xiii
Preface	p. xv
Acknowledgments	p. xix
The Authors	p. xxi

The Moral Ecology of Health Care Organizations	p. 3
Organizational Theory, Culture, and Psychology: Tools for Organizational Ethics	p. 29
Organizational Support for Ethical Behavior	p. 52
Corporate Compliance and Integrity Programs: The Uneasy Alliance Between Law and Ethics	p. 97
Managing Human Resources	p. 112
Conflicts of Interest	p. 146
Discretion and Control	p. 178
Evaluating the Moral Life of an Organization: The Case of Resource Allocation Policies	p. 204
Resource Allocation and Utilization: Structural Issues	p. 221
Mission and the Bottom Line	p. 247
Cases
The Waiting Room	p. 277
Nursing Strikes	p. 279
A Gift, or an Obligation?	p. 283
Obligations for Adequate Health Care Coverage	p. 288
A Manager's Dilemma in Hiring	p. 292
Conflict of Interest, or Just a Great Lunch?	p. 296
Organizations and Spousal Equivalent Benefits	p. 299
Organizational Teflon: Making Sure the Case Doesn't Stick	p. 303
Investment Policy	p. 306
Compassionate Sedation, or Euthanasia? Compassionate Communication, or Deceit?	p. 309
Ethical Considerations in Charting	p. 315
Executive Use of Discretionary Funds: The Bonus Pool	p. 317
Integrating Spirituality in the Health Care Setting	p. 320
Alternative and Complementary Medicine	p. 323
Overstepping the Bounds of Expertise	p. 326
Marketing Products and Practicing Medicine	p. 329
Following the Rules, or Using Them as a Smokescreen?	p. 333
Organizational Advancement and Corporate Compliance	p. 337
The Compliance Officer and the Ethics Committee	p. 341
Aggressive Accounting	p. 344
Appendixes
Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations	p. 349
Patients' Rights and Organization Ethics	p. 349
Managing Staff Requests	p. 360
Sample Ethics Statements	p. 361
American College of Healthcare Executives Ethical Policy Statement	p. 361
Moral Commitments Guiding Organizational Conduct	p. 364
Advocate Health Care Ethics Statement	p. 365
Sample Catholic Hospital Organizational Ethics Statement	p. 370
The Hospital Medical Center Statement of Organizational Ethics	p. 374
American College of Healthcare Executives: Code of Ethics	p. 377
Partnership Health Care: Conflict of Interest Policy	p. 387
Recommended Reading	p. 393
Index	p. 401
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