Nonprofit Healthcare, Virtue, and Mission with Dr. Mark Kuczewski

Bioethics in the Margins by Kirk Johnson and Amelia Barwise

Episode notes

Amelia and Kirk chat with Dr. Mark Kuczewski, Professor of Medical Ethics at Loyola University, Chicago. In this episode, they discuss his recent article https://www.healthaffairs.org/content/forefront/nonprofit-health-care-behaves-badly-case-mission-leaders-ombudsmen in which Dr. Kuczewski elucidates the challenges nonprofit healthcare employees face as workplace culture becomes increasingly corporatized and the importance of counterweights– in the form of ombudsmen, better-designed incentive structures, and virtuous local board members– who can potentially help promote the nonprofit mission for patients. They also discuss Dr. Kuczewski’s public ... 

 ...  Read more
Keywords
bioethicsimmigrationhealth equityadvocacyhealth policyhealth systemsnonprofit