Scholarships for Role and Function of Ethics Committees Training

New York law requires hospitals and nursing homes to have ethics review committees in place to help patients, families and staff deal with dilemmas that arise in care. How can we train Long Term Care (LTC) professionals in the basics of ethics and committee organization, structure and function, as well as help them understand some of the complex issues that they may face?

Albany Guardian Society, in partnership with the Alden March Bioethics Institute at Albany Medical College, is helping produce a four-day ethics training program as a follow-up to a successful series offered in 2013. This is an in-depth series of programs covering ethics committee organization, policy development, clinical ethical dilemmas with patients who lack capacity and the consultation and mediation roles and functions of ethics committees.

The principle instructor, Bruce D.White, D.O., J.D., is a board-certified pediatrician, pharmacist and attorney with fellowship training in clinical medical ethics. Dr. White serves as the director of the Alden-March Bioethics Institute at Albany Medical College.

Albany Guardian Society will provide a limited number of full tuition scholarships to LTC professionals who wish to gain a more in-depth understanding of the role and function of ethics committees. Interested parties should contact Richard Iannello, executive director at Albany Guardian Society, by email at director@albanyguardiansociety.org or call 518-434-2140. 

Contact: Patrick Cucinelli, pcucinelli@leadingageny.org, 518-867-8827