Healthcare Organizations Ethics & Social Responsibility

HCS/335: Health Care Ethics And Social Responsibility

Wk 2 Discussion – Organizational Ethics [due Thurs]

Discussion Topic

Post a total of 3 substantive responses over 2 separate days for full participation. This includes your initial post and 2 replies to classmates or your faculty member.

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Due Thursday

Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words:

Why is the concept of organizational ethics important to health care organizations?
Who should set them?
What’s your experience with organizational ethics?

Due Monday

Post 2 replies to classmates or your faculty member. Be constructive and professional.

1.My initial discussion post: __________________________________

2. First student to respond to:

Emily Howard

Organizational ethics helps individual employees understand the way an organization operates and why they make the decisions they make. This concept helps large employers, like hospitals, focus on what is most important. Healthcare generally focuses on patients, their safety, prevention of diseases, and management of illnesses. Having set organizational ethics helps set a tone across the facility about what is most important. Organizational ethics should be determined by stakeholders of the business. For the business to succeed the people funding that business need to be passionate about what the organization stands for as well as in agreement with their policies.

My local hospital takes great strides to advance their organizational ethics and affect members of the community. Very often the hospital hosts blood drives where staff as well as community members can come together to help the cause. They also are expanding the the maternity unit and combining it with the NICU and children’s unit for a family birth and wellness center. This positively affects patients by enhancing medical care.

Second student to respond to:

James Black

The concept of organizational ethics is important in healthcare, as it sets the tone for the care of the patients in our care. Setting the ethics of purpose and function help to show all employees what the goals of the organization are, and how they aim to accomplish them. While the business climate can be difficult, Henry Silverman writes in Organizational Ethics in Healthcare Organizations: Proactively Managing the Ethical Climate to Ensure Organizational Integrity, that the “outcomes of of patient care are largely influenced by the organizational dynamics of the healthcare institution rather than individual professionalism.” (2000). If that is true, then an organizations ethics, goals and mission play a huge part in patient care, and is a crucial step for an organization and its management and founders to determine and set these vales, as they do elute down to all of its staff, and effects al of the patients the institution comes in contact with. On a personal level, I have always found myself working at institutions that share my values for patient care, and the treatment of patients, as I am not sure I could tolerate working in an organization that does not hold patients care, patient’s rights and their treatment the same as I do. While I can say I do look at the values prior to accepting any position, seeing the institution first had in how the values are carried out is another thing. I have not had any experience where the listed values to not align with the true treatment of patients, but I have heard experiences such as this, and am sure if I was in this situation, I would find another opportunity.

References

Silverman MD, H.J. (2000, September). Organizational Ethics in Healthcare Organizations: Proactively Managing the Ethical Climate to Ensure Organizational Integrity. HEC Forum, 12(3), . https://search.proquest.com/docview/229344211?pq-origsite=gscholar&fromopenview=true

HCS/335: Health Care Ethics And Social Responsibility

Wk 2 – Signature Assignment: Organizational Research Memo [due Mon]

Assignment Content

Imagine you’ve been assigned to an organizational committee that has been asked to evaluate the organization and make recommendations to the compliance officer on ways to strengthen legal and ethical compliance.

In this assignment, you will use the Organizational Research Memo Template to research organizations, not agencies. Remember that an organization is a company or business – such as a hospital, clinic, or insurance company – and an agency is a part of the government at the federal, state, or local level, such as the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Department of Labor (DOL), or a state health department.
Select 1 of the organizations listed below. Research the organization’s compliance information. Review the Organizational Research Memo Template to ensure you can obtain all information for the organization you have selected.

American Red Cross
American Heart Association
United Healthcare
Johnson & Johnson
Stryker Corp.
Verizon Healthcare
GE Healthcare
A hospital
A clinic
An insurance company
A nonprofit health care organization
An organization of your choice – the organization should not be a federal, state, or local agency, and must include information that is publicly available.

Write a 700- to 1,050-word memo to the corporate compliance officer. Use the Organizational Research Memo Template to complete the assignment.
Cite at least 1 reputable reference. Reputable references include trade or industry publications, government or agency websites, scholarly works, a textbook, or other sources of similar quality.
Format your references section and references used in your memo according to APA guidelines.