Are you looking to:

Revitalize your ethics committee?

Educate your ethics consultants?

Rewrite your ethics policies?

We CAN help!

WHO WE ARE: Established in 1990, the Consortium Ethics Program (CEP) is a collaborative effort of the University of Pittsburgh Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, and University of Pittsburgh Center for Bioethics and Health Law. The CEP is the premier regional health care ethics education network in western Pennsylvania serving the surrounding tri-state area. We have provided continuing education for nurses, physicians, social workers, and others from participating health care institutions in the language, methods, and literature of health care ethics. We have members from all areas of health care including: adult and pediatric hospitals, long-term care facilities, home-care providers, third-party insurers, as well as individual members.

Aviva L. Katz, MD, MA, FACS, FAAP, Director

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Quarterly E-Newsletter: Each issue highlights happenings from our member institutions and current hot topics in health care ethics.

Networking Opportunities: The on-going connections made among representatives, health care facilities, third-party insurers, and our expert teaching faculty are a permanent asset to participating health care institutions. This ethics network facilitates the sharing of information to help individuals and institutions cope with perennial dilemmas in patient care, as well as new legislation and developments in health care ethics.

HOW YOU DO IT:

The most important qualification for an institution is a willingness to make health care ethics a significant part of its mission and a willingness to commit time, effort, and the financial resources necessary for successful educational programming within the institution and community. In practical terms, this means an institution must:

Commit to joining for the three-year educational cycle.

Appoint two representatives whose institutional position and stature will make them effective ethics facilitators and who will commit to attending all educational offerings. (Additional representatives may join for a nominal fee).

Provide administrative support from a direct supervisor(s) to allow appointed representatives the required time off to attend educational sessions.

Contribute an annual membership fee.

MEMBERSHIP FEES 2015-2016

*Long-Term Care/Home Care: Limited membership does not include onsite programming. This fee only covers the cost for two individuals to attend the educational seminars. Onsite programming can be arranged on a fee-for-service basis.

**Individual Membership includes attendance at the annual ethics retreat and educational seminars. Please note that onsite programming is not included in this membership but can be arranged on a fee-for-service basis.

Contact us: Our Director would be happy to meet with you to discuss membership options and opportunities. Please contact us to arrange a meeting.

Phone: 412-315-7193 / Email: cep@pitt.edu

WHAT WE DO:

The CEP provides a cost-effective approach to assist health care professionals, their institutions, and the local health care community in developing and sustaining an awareness and expertise in clinical health care ethics. We accomplish this by:

Educating designated representatives to become ethics resource persons within their institution. These representatives are typically from an institution’s ethics committee or have an interest in health care ethics.

Assisting these representatives in designing and implementing an ethics plan to meet the specific needs of their institution, including support for Magnet recognition.

HOW WE DO IT:

Education is provided in a continuous three-year cycle and is comparable to the training offered by graduate degree programs in health care ethics. The first year explores the foundations of health care ethics—theories, principles, and case-based reasoning. The second year continues to examine these concepts with a focus on the relationship between the law and health care ethics, and the third year explores the contributions of the Humanities (art, film, culture) and social sciences to clinical ethics and health care.

Educational seminars are provided in a variety of formats, all of which offer continuing education accreditation. These programs include:

Weekend Retreat: Held in September each year, this intensive, yet informal, conference includes faculty from local universities and national scholars who present state-of-the-art educational sessions. (A registration fee is collected for this conference).

Seminar Series: Following the weekend conference, members will attend four full-day seminar sessions, two in the fall and two in the spring.

Onsite Programming: Each member institution is entitled to a maximum of six hours of onsite programming per year to help expand ethics awareness throughout their institution.

Ethics Consultation Simulation Training: Specialized skill-building activity to prepare new consultants and enhance the skills of current consultants.

Webinars: Distance learning sessions available twice a year.

Online Teaching Modules: We have developed a set of online teaching modules that provide members with the tools to teach the basic concepts of health care ethics to staff within their institution.

Other benefits of membership include:

Joint Commission Report: Member institutions receive a year-end accreditation report that details how all educational sessions have met relevant Joint Commission standards. This report can easily be adapted to other federal and state accreditation requirements.

Magnet Status Support: Focused staff education and support to assist in the process of achieving Magnet status.

Membership Type

Fee Category

Membership Fee

Additional Representatives

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Acute Care

0-99 Beds 100-199 200-399

400+

$4,600 $7,850 $10,050 $15,225

$500

Long-Term Care and Home Care

Full Limited*

$4,600 $1,800 $350

Third-Party Insurers $15,225 $500

Individual** $1,800