How can the leaders of healthcare organizations safeguard their institutions' moral integrity while responding to the overwhelming and immediate demands of daily operations?

This essential and practical resource offers healthcare leaders a guide for achieving consistently high levels of ethical practice within their organizations.

In addition, this book offers vital information for healthcare administrators and managers who must implement the ethical practices necessary for their institutions to comply with JCAHO standards.

• Outlines methods for promoting ethical behavior
• Explains how to analyze organizational function
• Examines conflicts of interest
• Shows how policy development and implementation reflects the moral nature of organizations
• Clarifies the complex relationships between lawand ethics
• Reviews the role of compliance in organizational ethics.

Filled with illustrative case studies that apply ethics in a wide variety of circumstances and institutions.