Event: Announcing the First Annual Regional Clinical Ethics Conference
February 28, 2012
March 30, 2012
DC, Maryland, and Virginia (DMV) region
The Center for Ethics and the Bioethics Committee of MedStar Washington Hospital Center are hosting the first of a series in conferences relating to clinical ethics issues faced by clinicians
This one-day conference on clinical ethics is focused on hospital clinicians and other professionals throughout the metropolitan region. Most hospitals have ethics committees made up of physicians, nurses, social workers, chaplains, clinical ethicists and other clinicians and administrators who address the clinical ethics needs of their own institution. This conference is designed to be the first in a series of annual meetings to bring together members of these hospital ethics committees and other health professionals to 1) establish a regional network of hospital professionals dedicated to elevating the quality of clinical care within each institution, 2) to work together to develop solutions to common ethical problems and 3) to determine whether such a network will improve the ethical quality of healthcare . This Inaugural DMV Regional Hospital Clinical Ethics Conference will be focused on how hospital ethics committees can contribute to improving end-of-life care for patients at each participant’s own hospital.
