Issues at Hope
Issues at Hope
Order Description
Overview
You work at Hope Community Healthcare Center (CHC) and your boss, Norm Nathans, wants to introduce non-clinical staff members to basic legal and ethical considerations
that they may encounter at the Center. You see that there are many relevant examples of legal and ethical considerations on the staff web page. It is your job to
identify some of the ethical and legal issues that are mentioned on the staff web page that Norm can use as examples in his discussion with the staff.
Directions
To complete this Project, follow these steps:
Open and review the content included in the Hope Community Healthcare Center web page (including the Tweets).
Read the Project resources to learn about the various topics addressed on the Hope CHC web page.
Please note: The resources will assist you in deciding whether each topic is an ethical or legal issue. Pay careful attention to the Instructions that accompany each
Project resource, as the Instructions explain which parts of each resource you need to read.
Write a memo to Norm that identifies:
Five examples of ethical issues on the Hope CHC web page.
Three examples of legal issues on the Hope CHC web page.
For each example you provide, briefly describe the issue using your own words and explain why it is considered ethical or legal.
DELIVERABLES
Memo to Norm Nathans
Accepted File Types: .doc, .docx, .odt, .rtf, .txt, .pdf
Project Resources
These are links to public external resources. Any comments or statements made on these public websites are not representative of College for America.
Overview of Healthcare Ethics: How Ethics Are Different From Laws
Open this resource and click on the FAQ "What is the relationship between ethics and the law?" to learn about the connections and differences between ethics and laws.
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Overview of the Four Principles of Healthcare Ethics
Read the contents of this web page to learn about the four principles of healthcare ethics.
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Dominant Issues in Medical Ethics
Review this web page for information about ethical issues that emerge in healthcare. Clicking on the various topics will take you to additional information about each
ethical issue.
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About the Affordable Care Act
Use this resource to learn about the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
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Overview of the Stark Law
Read the paragraph under the title "The Basic Prohibitions" and the box titled "Key Points" to learn the basic definition of the Stark Law.
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Consumer Summary of HIPAA
Read this summary to learn about what HIPAA is and the basic privacy rights pertaining to health information.
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Overview of EMTALA
At a minimum, read the content included in the five bullet points under "Main Points" to learn what EMTALA is and what it was created to address.
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Hope Community Healthcare Center Web Page
Open this resource and review the content included on Hope Community Healthcare Center's staff web page.
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Resources;
https://www.vtethicsnetwork.org/faqethics.html
https://www.vtethicsnetwork.org/ethics.html
https://medlineplus.gov/medicalethics.html
https://www.hhs.gov/healthcare/about-the-aca/index.html
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2003/1100/p27.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20150401211449/https://www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/hipaa/understanding/consumers/consumer_summary.pdf
https://www.acep.org/News-Media-top-banner/EMTALA/#sm.001vm1rhr10i6dwcxyk1crogfacha