Ethical Health Partnerships
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Mission
Our mission is to promote more ethical health partnerships throughout the network of relationships that forms healthcare. By ‘ethical’ we mean relationships that are characterized by:
Personal responsibility and accountability
Respect
Care and value of the well-being of the other as much as that of oneself
Justice and fairness to all
Integrity
Collaboration (See What Is Relationship for more on ethical relationship)
Goals:
Through education, advocacy and legislative action, our goals are:
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To contribute to the quality of healthcare, the safety of the patient, and more responsible and effective management of the costs of healthcare.
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To empower patients both in their own healthcare and in shaping healthcare policy.
- To promote policies which serve to strengthen the patient/physician relationship and the relationships with other healthcare practitioners involved in the patient’s care.
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To value and protect the quality and availability of our healthcare by supporting the well-being of those who care for us while maintaining patient-centered focus.
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To support the legitimate needs of third parties without permitting the damage or undue burden on patients and their doctors, nurses and other practitioners.
- To make ethical partnership the guiding principle to achieve the goals of healthcare -- quality care to promote optimal health for the patient.