The Ethics of Hospital Trustees (Hardcover)

All manner of medical practitioners have had their scruples dissected ad infinitum. In spite of the attention paid to medical ethics and bioethics, little has been paid to the ethical roles and responsibilities of those who are ultimately in charge of hospital governance: hospital trustees. Deriving from a Hastings Center research project involving meetings with a national task force of experts and extensive interviews with 98 nonprofit hospital trustees and CEOs over a two-year period, The Ethics of Hospital Trustees shows that the decisions made by these often overlooked members of the health community do raise important ethical issues, and that ethical dimensions of trustee service should be more explicitly recognized and discussed.Practical as well as theoretical, The Ethics of Hospital Trustees uncovers four basic principles: 1. Fidelity to mission; 2. Service to patients; 3. Service to the community; and 4. Institutional stewardship. In delineating the extremely important functions of hospital trustees, from patient safety to financial responsibility, the contributors outline not only how hospital trustees do perform -- they give a fresh understanding to how they should perform as well.

General

Imprint:	Georgetown University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Hastings Center Studies in Ethics series
Release date:	June 2004
First published:	June 2004
Editors:	Bruce Jennings (Director of Bioethics) • Bradford H. Gray • Virginia A. Sharpe • Alan R. Fleischman (Senior Vice President)
Contributors:	Bruce Jennings • Bradford H. Gray • Virginia A. Sharpe • Linda Weiss • Alan R. Fleischman • Elizabeth Robilotti
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	292
ISBN-13:	978-1-58901-015-4
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Philosophy > General Books > Medicine > General issues > Medicolegal issues Books > Philosophy > General
LSN:	1-58901-015-9
Barcode:	9781589010154

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