Can Catholic Hospitals Still Be Catholic? A Virtue Theory Response

Gremmels, Becket

doi:10.1093/cb/cby017

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“…A significant responsibility of the mission leader is to provide formation to ministry staff (Gremmels 2019, 32–33). Respecting that not all employees are Catholic or Christian, formation is provided at all levels of the organization to ensure everyone is empowered to make decisions and operate in a way that reflects the mission, values, and identity of the health ministry.…”

Section: Catholic Health Care Is Positioned To Leadmentioning

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Catholic Health Care and AI Ethics: Algorithms for Human Flourishing

Miller

2022

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) contributes to common goods and common harms in our everyday lives. In light of the Collingridge dilemma, information about both the actual and potential harm of AI is explored and myths about AI are dispelled. Catholic health care is then presented as being in a unique position to exert its influence to model the use of AI systems that minimizes the risk of harm and promotes human flourishing and the common good.

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Section: Catholic Health Care Is Positioned To Leadmentioning

confidence: 99%

Catholic Health Care and AI Ethics: Algorithms for Human Flourishing

Miller

2022

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“…In turn, this collective exercise of the virtues of prudence and faith (among others) continues to form the moral character of those participating. Since some organizations require leaders to review a summary of the discernment process before signing off on the outcomes, a requirement to summarize the steps taken to include or solicit the ideas of all affected can offer accountability for those tasked with decision making (Gremmels 2019, 33–34). While not appropriate for many decision making situations, clearly the attention to the mission of the organization and the space for prayer and reflection can be tools used when seeking to maximize the practice of subsidiarity in Catholic mega-systems.…”

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“…6Even in the same system, following the same mission, the culture or subculture of an individual facility can be very different from another. For some anecdotes about this, see Gremmels 2019, 20.…”

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Subsidiarity and Participation in an Age of Catholic Mega-Systems

Harootunian-Cutts

2022

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While the number of Catholic healthcare facilities has held stable over the last several decades, Catholic healthcare has followed the trend of merging facilities and systems into “mega-systems.” These consolidations can be beneficial for creating continuums of care, lowering operating costs, ensuring long-term viability, and sharing physical, digital, and human resources. However, with larger systems comes a practical need to be integrated to some degree, and the pressure to standardize policies and practices across regions is present. To address this need and pressure, the Catholic Social Teaching principles of subsidiarity and participation should guide system and local administrators. Subsidiarity and participation encourage all decision making to happen at the most local levels and to include as many of the people those decisions affect as possible. I will review both the pragmatic benefits of keeping decisions as local and rooted as possible as well as the moral benefits of allowing as many administrators and health care professionals to exercise and form their virtues as moral agents. In a time when changes to medical care have created many procedural responsibilities and cut into time spent in moral witness, institutions, even mega-systems, should remain attentive to the ways in which the moral agents of their system are formed and exercised.

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