Healthcare leaders regularly find themselves in tough spots while confronted daily with complex value-laden decisions. Should they close a much needed but unprofitable clinic serving underrepresented patients? How should they balance their obligations to patient care with the safety of staff? Should they mandate flu or coronavirus vaccines? How do they balance the need to fulfill their mission while also maintaining the necessary sustainability to do so? Often the ethics component of a decision is not so obvious as those listed above, or we can be completely blind to it. And yet there remain very few programs that work with leaders to develop their ethical muscles and practice responding to ethical challenges they face regularly. This session will provide leaders with tools and resources to engage in ethical decision-making. In doing so, leaders will identify how unaddressed ethics issues impact their institutional commitments and bottom line. 

Participants will take a brief, pre-course ethics assessment that includes their interests and desires for the program. During the course, leaders will learn how to apply an ethical decision-making framework to complex decisions and will leave with an understanding of the resources and strategies available to help them better navigate these situations.

Learning Objectives:

• Explain the link between ethics and organizational performance.
• Distinguish ethical responsibilities from compliance, risk and legal liabilities.
• Apply an ethical decision-making framework to a variety of scenarios.

Who Should Attend:

Mid- to senior-level executives involved in decision-making for an organization inclusive of clinical or service line management, hospital operations, ambulatory operations, financial management or business development.

Presented By:

Jason Lesandrini, FACHE, Founder/CEO, The Ethics Architect

Continuing Education Credit

In addition to the ACHE In-Person Education or Virtual Interactive Education credits assigned to this seminar, ACHE is accredited by other organizations to provide continuing education credit. View complete information about these organizations.

All Choice seminars can be offered as Virtual Interactive programs or live In-Person programs.

For more information about this seminar and Choice programs, contact Martijn van Oort, director, business development, at (312) 288-1872 or choice@ache.org.