Essential Health St. Joseph Medical Center

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Code of Ethics The code of ethics is a big deal at any organization, ranging from a grocery store to a hospital. In the paper the subjects to be discussed are: code of ethics, the mission statement, and the core values at Essential Health St. Joseph Medical Center located in Brainerd, Minnesota. Essentia Health St. Joseph’s medical center is a 162-bed-not-for-profit hospital that has been in business for over 100 years (Essential Health, 2009). The topics that will be brought up are: the organizations goals, how they are connected to the ethical principles, the role and importance of the corporations ethical values, the relationship between the organizations culture and ethical decision making, whether it is important that the organization…show more content…
The Essential Health St. Joseph’s Medical Center goals are the highest quality of care, patient safety, patient satisfaction, wellness, and happiness of the patients. According to Essentia Health St. Joseph’s Medical Center (2009), “our mission is to provide a comprehensive, team-based program of high quality, patient centered heart care” (Cardiology, Para 1). Ethical principles are goals within the organization. The ethical theories are applied to try to make the organization to become successful. The goals of the ethical principles are respect for autonomy, beneficence, justice, and least harm. The ways that the organizational goals are tied to its ethical principles are the satisfaction of the patient the organization tries to make the patients happy and allows the patients to make his or her own decisions. Essentia Health St. Joseph’s Medical Center wants to ensure the patients his or her well-being and the highest quality of care that any facility could provide. The organization is committed to the respect for the patients, teamwork, and the happiness of the patients, the poor, and the powerless.…show more content…
Joseph’s Medical Center has set goals to provide the highest quality of care, patient satisfaction, wellness, and happiness for the patient. The ethical values consist of integrity, honesty, charity, self-discipline, fidelity, and responsibility. The Catholic culture relationship with ethical decision-making is based on their belief in and the right to life. Essentia Health St. Joseph’s Medical Center finds it important to have employees with the same or similar values. As a Catholic hospital they will never refuse to treat any patient in need of medical care regardless of race, gender, religious beliefs, the uninsured, the poor, and the mentally ill. Essentia Health St. Joseph’s Medical Center is an institution the follows the beliefs of the Catholic church and provides health care to those in need, just as Christ

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