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Maggie Neustadt Brings Risk Management and Clinical Ethics Goals Together
The primary goal of risk management in healthcare, according to Maggie Neustadt, Vice President for Risk Management for the BJC Health System, is to be a creative problem solver. To find compromises to complicated medical/ethical/legal questions.
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AI in Healthcare: Are We Expecting Too Much?
In this blog by Dr. Jarrett – amidst much enthusiasm about potential benefits of AI in healthcare — explains why she would like us to slow down enough to ensure that humans have a voice in decisions being made.
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Walking Around Heaven All Day: A Personal Journey Toward Empowered End-of-Life Choices
Gloria Thomas Anderson’s passion to promote Advance Care Planning has been inspired by the devastating effects of inequitable care provided to family members and her own near-death experience. In this essay, she describes how a simple conversation with her mother turned into a powerful discussion about her mother’s care goals. Dr. Anderson developed the Let’s Talk about ACP program.
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The Pitt: Not Your Average Medical Drama
The Pitt grabbed Ryan Pferdehirt’s attention primarily because of its location. But it wasn’t long before the show impressed him with its realistic depiction of healthcare professionals doing their best to care for patients in a fast-paced, urban core ED.
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Rob Flores Builds Cultural Bridges to the Hispanic Community
Read about how Rob, a first-generation Latino raised in northwestern Nebraska with 15 brothers and sisters and founder of Puente Marketing & Advertising is, as he says, “using his talents, skills, knowledge and treasure for something good” on the CPB Board of Directors.
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DEIB or DEIBust?
A fierce advocate for health equity, Odessa Sawyer writes passionately about Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB), a movement born in the midst of COVID-19 that encouraged organizations and companies to look at how their social justice stance was perceived by consumers and employees.
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Ethics Dispatch February 2025
As dementia cases continue to rise, healthcare systems will be faced with an increasing number of difficult discharge decisions. In this issue of the Ethics Dispatch, CPB raises questions about the ethical implications of dementia care and discusses upholding the principle of obligatory beneficence when addressing hospital discharges and long-term care planning.
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Clinical Ethics Consultation: Responding to MAID and the Issues that Foster It
This blog describes a case that involves issues that can drive seriously ill patients to consider MAID as an option. The piece then shows how an ethicist’s clearly communicated unbiased recommendations can enable those involved to understand and accept a decision even though they may not agree with it.
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Ethics Dispatch January 2025
As people turn to genetic services like 23andMe or Ancestry.com, the results of these at-home genetic tests could soon determine your eligibility for life insurance and the premiums you’ll pay .While genetic tests can provide valuable insights into health, in this issue of the Ethics Dispatch, CPB raises questions about the ethics of genetic ownership and the risks of discrimination.
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Nonprofits are Critical to Civil Society
Is change accelerating? It’s a question that’s difficult to answer with certainty, but many seem to perceive we are in a period of transition and transformation. To close out 2024, James Stowe, President and CEO of the Center, explains in this blog why he believes nonprofits will play a special role in in this period and why their value should be recognized, upheld and defended.
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