Consortium Ethics Program |
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About the CEP The Consortium Ethics Program (CEP) is the regional health care ethics network in Western Pennsylvania. This premier network educates nurses, physicians, social workers and others from participating health care institutions in the language, methods and literature of health care ethics. These staff members, known as CEP representatives, become on-site resource personnel who receive direct support from the CEP to meet the ethics needs of their institutions. Member institutions form a network, which is instrumental in sharing ethics resources and experiences in a cost-effective manner. Because of the collaborative and cooperative nature of the CEP, membership crosses all lines of affiliation in the ever-changing health care environment.
History of the CEP The CEP began as a pilot program for 12 acute-care hospitals in 1990 with a generous grant from the Vira I. Heinz Endowment. Since 1996, it has been self-sufficient, supported by member institutions and co-sponsored by the University of Pittsburgh Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, and the University of Pittsburgh Center for Bioethics and Health Law. Current membership consists of 26 institutions, including acute-care, rehabilitation, long-term and home-care, and the area’s largest health plans—Highmark, Inc. and UPMC Health Plan. For nearly 20 years, the CEP has provided high quality ethics education and kept up-to-date on the continually evolving field of health care ethics.
Goals of the CEP The CEP provides a cost-effective approach to assisting health care professionals, their institutions and the local health care community in developing and sustaining awareness and expertise in clinical health care ethics. This awareness and expertise ensures that present and emerging ethics needs are met. The CEP carries out these goals by: • Educating a minimum of two representatives from each paticipating institution to become ethics resource persons. • Assisting representatives in designing and implementing an “ethics plan” to meet the needs of their institutions. • Continuing to develop new methods to guide institutions as they address their long-term needs in health care ethics. Experience has shown that as these goals are met, institutions are able to: • Assist neighboring facilities to cooperatively address ethical issues that arise in the transfer of patients along a continuum of care. • Address relevant Joint Commission standards, federal requirements, such as the HIPAA Privacy Rule and the Patient Self-Determination Act, and other standards in the field of health care ethics. • Form, develop or revitalize ethics committees, consultation services or other appropriate mechanisms for conflict resolution.
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CEP In the News "Facing Conflict with mediation Skills in Health Care" Western Pennsylvania Hosptial News "Is You Ethics Committee Ready for the 'Next Generation?'" Western Pennsylvania Hospital News "Consortium Ethics Program: Educating Leaders in Health Care" Western Pennsylvania Hospital News, September 2009 “Consortium Ethics Program: A Jumpstart to Clinical Ethics Education” Western Pennsylvania Hospital News, August 2009 |
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Robert Arnold, MD University of Pittsburgh |
Randy Hebert, MD WPAHS Forbes Hospice |
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David Barnard, PhD, JD University of Pittsburgh |
Aviva Katz, MD Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC |
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Judith Black, MD, MHA Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield |
Margaret Kimmel, PhD University of Pittsburgh |
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Bruce Bryce, D.Min Family Hospice |
David Korman, JD University of Pittsburgh |
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Elizabeth Chaitin, DHCE UPMC Shadyside |
Martha Mannix, JD University of Pittsburgh |
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Ellen DeBenedetti, MEd Pittsburgh Mediation Center |
Cynthia McCarthy, DHCE University of Pittsburgh |
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Mary Therese Connors, DHCE Duquesne University |
David Orenstein, MD Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC |
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Maryanne Fello, RN, BSN, M.Ed. WPAHS Forbes Hospice |
Rosa Lynn Pinkus, PhD University of Pittsburgh |
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Gary Fischer, MD University of Pittsburgh |
Valerie Satkoske, MSW, PhD University of Pittsburgh |
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Lucy Fischer, PhD University of Pittsburgh |
Stella Smetanka, JD University of Pittsburgh |
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Janet Grover, DHCE(c) |
Denise Stahl, RN, MSN, BC-PCM VA VISN 4 |
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Daniel Hall, MD, MDiv, MHSc UPMC Presbyterian |
Alan Steinberg, JD Horty, Springer & Mattern, PC |
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Mary Beth Happ, PhD University of Pittsburgh |
Jyotsna Vasudev, PhD Heritage Valley Health System |
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Rhonda Gay Hartman, JD Duquesne University Law School |
Mark Wicclair, PhD University of Pittsburgh |
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© 2009 Consortium Ethics Program. No portion may be reproduced without permission. Last updated: September 22, 2011 |
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