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. VIEW ADD TO LIST Overview of the Four Principles of Healthcare Ethics Read the contents of this web page to learn about the four principles of healthcare ethics. VIEW ADD TO LIST 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. VIEW ADD TO LIST About the Affordable Care Act Use this resource to learn about the Affordable Care Act (ACA). VIEW ADD TO LIST 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. VIEW ADD TO LIST Consumer Summary of HIPAA Read this summary to learn about what HIPAA is and the basic privacy rights pertaining to health information. VIEW ADD TO LIST 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. VIEW ADD TO LIST Hope Community Healthcare Center Web Page Open this resource and review the content included on Hope Community Healthcare Center's staff web page. VIEW ADD TO LIST 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