MBAH 481 HC Law and Ethics
Health Care Law and Ethics 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 nonprofit, and 3) legal issues relating to admission and discharge, emergency treatment, medical records, and mental health treatment. The course also presents an ethical analytic framework grounded in legal principles and in the philosophical principles of beneficence, non-maleficence, autonomy and justice, applied in cases and readings to the difficult ethical challenges in health care administration.