Ethical Wisdom: Doing the Right Thing Every Day, Everywhere in the Organization

This program is funded in part by ACHE’s Fund for Innovation in Healthcare Leadership

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Wednesday, October 6, 2010
8:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
In conjunction with the San Francisco Cluster

The realities of healthcare reform and the challenge to use limited resources most efficiently will stress the ethical resolve of even the strongest of healthcare providers with some of the toughest questions any healthcare leader may have ever faced.

This proactive, half-day seminar exposes healthcare executives to the challenges and some very practical solutions to the ethical dilemmas they encounter.

Explore your role in:

• Examining the implications of ethical behavior on mission and margin
  
  
• Setting the pathways by which ethical pathways turn intentions into sustainable performance
  
  
• Guarding against ethical erosion
  
  
• Diagnosing the ethical health of your organization
  

Jack A. Gilbert, EdD, FACHE, is director of the Master of Healthcare Innovation program at Arizona State University. Dr. Gilbert will lead this seminar by sharing the outcomes of his research and practice working with healthcare organizations on some of their most pressing ethical issues. His key determination is for healthcare leaders and their staff to always do the “right thing” throughout their organization.

A selected group of healthcare leaders will share their experiences with ethical challenges while serving as discussion leaders on topics such as how organizational ethics are created and eroded, the link between ethical decision making and organizational performance and institutionalizing ethical wisdom.

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Faculty

Jack A. Gilbert, EdD, FACHE, is an educator, a consultant, a presenter, and an award-winning author. For the past 30 years, his work has focused on issues of leadership, ethics and large-scale change. Dr. Gilbert is a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives, a member of the San Diego Organization of Healthcare Leaders and a member of the National Speakers Association. He holds his doctorate from The George Washington University in Washington, D.C., where his dissertation focused on the role of ethics in decision making. His two books Strengthening Ethical Wisdom: Tools for Transforming Your Health Care Organization and Productivity Management: A Step-by-Step Guide for Health Care Professionals are used widely by healthcare leaders.

Healthcare Executive Panel

Delvecchio S. Finley, FACHE, vice president, Operations, California Pacific Medical Center

Jerrold A. Maki, FACHE, vice president, Clinical Services, Stanford Hospitals & Clinics

Carrie Owen Plietz, FACHE, chief operating officer, Sutter Health-Mills Peninsula Health System

A Note About Faculty Comments

The comments and opinions of presenters made during the program are their own. Such comments are meant to be informative, illustrative or educational in nature and not endorsed by nor are they the official policy of ACHE.

Tuition

Includes: breakfast, registration fees and course materials

Credits

Participation in this workshop qualifies for 4 hours of Category I (ACHE education) credit. ACHE is accredited by other organizations to provide continuing education credit.

You can register online or call the ACHE Customer Service Center at (312) 424-9400.

Healthcare management ethics is identified as a key area of focus of the Fund for Innovation in Healthcare Leadership. In this regard, the Fund supports ACHE’s long-standing commitment to promoting the highest standards of ethical conduct in the field. Your attendance at this program will not only benefit you and your organization but will serve to further elevate and strengthen healthcare leadership as a whole.

For more information on the Fund for Innovation in Healthcare Leadership, visit ache.org/Innovation.