Minnesota Center for Health Care Ethics
The Minnesota Center for Health Care Ethics is a Province ministry grounded in a collaborative health ethics partnership with Fairview Health Systems and HealthEast Care System. The Ethics Center’s mission is to promote-ethically informed decision-making, through its involvement in clinical, academic, health care organization, and health policy settings, as well as through its scholarly contributions to the field of health care ethics.
Each of our Partner Organizations receives direct service to meet the ethic needs it identifies. Currently, in relation to the CSJ Community, the Center provides support for ethics committee and policy development, and case consultation at Bethany Convent, the retirement home for sisters in the St. Paul Province. At Bethany’s request, the Center has developed a program to assist in promoting ethically-informed decision-making for residents with decisional incapacity (which it has also presented for all of the CSJ Retirement Home coordinators from across the nation). Currently, the Center is working with St. Mary’s Health Clinics to address their direct service needs, and is planning several CSJ community-wide programs (similar to workshops and lectures given to the province in previous years based on our two major books—Healing by Heart: Clinical and Ethical Case Stories of Hmong Families and Western Providers (Vanderbilt University Press, 2003), and Ethical Challenges in Managed Care: A Casebook (Georgetown University Press, 1999). In addition to the direct service we provide to our Partners, we also extend our Partners’ outreach locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally.
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