Leadership Roles and Responsibilities

Navigate healthcare ethics with confidence and integrity.Managing Healthcare Ethically: Leadership Roles and Responsibilities provides healthcare leaders with the essential guidance needed to foster an ethical organizational culture and navigate complex ethical dilemmas. This third edition highlights the critical issues leaders face in ensuring ethical performance and delivering high-quality patient care.

• Gain insights into ethical leadership and decision-making.
• Understand your responsibilities to patients, staff, and the community.
• Create a culture of transparency, accountability, and integrity.

For healthcare executives, managers, and aspiring leaders, this volume offers practical strategies and real-world examples to help you lead with a strong moral compass and build a more ethical healthcare system. Discover how to align organizational values with daily practices and create a workplace where ethical behavior is not only expected but celebrated.

Paul B. Hofmann, DrPH, LFACHE, is president of the Hofmann Healthcare Group in Moraga, California. Although he devotes a majority of his time to pro bono activities, he continues to write, speak, and consult on ethical issues in healthcare and to serve as an advisor to healthcare companies and as an expert witness. Dr. Hofmann has served as executive director of Emory University Hospital and director of Stanford University Hospital and Clinics. For 19 years, he coordinated the annual two-day ethics seminar for the American College of Healthcare Executives. He is coeditor of Management Mistakes in Healthcare: Identification, Correction and Prevention, published in 2005 by Cambridge University Press. He serves on the American Hospital Association’s Quest for Quality Prize committee, the Joint Commission’s international Standards Advisory Panel, and the board of trustees of the Education Development Center. He is a cofounder of Operation Access and the Alliance for Global Clinical Training.

William A. Nelson, PhD, MDiv, HFACHE, is director of the Ethics and Human Values Program and a professor in the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, the Department of Medical Education, and the Department of Community and Family Medicine at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine. He serves as the director of multiple courses for Dartmouth’s three master of public health programs and medical school, focusing on healthcare ethics. He also is an adjunct professor at New York University’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. He was the principal investigator of several federally and state-funded research studies fostering an evidence-based approach to ethics. Dr. Nelson has received many awards, including the US Congressional Excalibur Award for Public Service and an honorary doctorate of humane letters from his alma mater, Elmhurst College. The US Department of Veterans Affairs established the annual competitive William A. Nelson Award for Excellence in Health Care Ethics.