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Here is some sample content from Ethical Issues:

	PURPOSE: To ensure there is a process that encourages patients and families, and Hospice staff to participate in the consideration of ethical issues that arise in care of the Hospice patient. POLICY: Hospice provides a mechanism designed to respond to the increasing challenges confronting those in hospice care who are involved in treatment choices and care decisions. The interdisciplinary team management meetings, case conferences and performance improvement meetings or using the hospital's Ethics Committee may serve as vehicles to consider and discuss ethical issues. Temporary ethics...
Second excerpt:
	...conferences, performance improvement meetings or the interdisciplinary team meetings. Hospice staff, patients, patient representatives and attending physicians may request to attend meetings whenever discussion may be about the care involving an individual patient. Hospice maintains minutes of these meetings. To assure confidentiality, any discussions involving individual patients or Hospice staff will not include names. Identification numbers will be used instead. Hospice staff,...