HCA 524 Health Care Law and Ethics

This course addresses major legal and ethical principles and issues relevant to health care administration, including: (1) legal relationships between patients and providers, providers and institutions, and patients and institutions; (2) the legal structure of various forms of corporate organization, including profit, and not-for-profit; and (3) legal issues relating to admission and discharge, emergency treatment, medical records, and mental health treatment. Finally, the course presents an ethical analytic framework grounded in legal principles and in the philosophical principles of beneficence, nonmaleficence, autonomy and justice, applied in cases and readings to the difficult ethical challenges in health care administration.

Credits

3

Cross Listed Courses

GSM 624

Prerequisite

None