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2024 Colorado Healthcare Ethics Forum (CHEF) ANNUAL CONFERENCE 

The 2024 Colorado Healthcare Ethics Forum annual conference will explore healthcare equity, focusing on difficult ethical challenges and solutions that advance the fair and just delivery of healthcare to under-served and underrepresented populations. Addressing healthcare disparities requires a multi-faceted approach, including policy changes, increased cultural humility in healthcare delivery, improved access to education and preventive services, and efforts to address health-related social needs. Identifying and recognizing the interconnected nature of these disparities will allow providers to work towards equitable healthcare for all people in a manner that aligns with professional and institutional values.

Objectives:

Participants will increase their understanding of ethical problems and solutions concerning healthcare equity, including but not limited to ethical issues arising from:
a. economic barriers to accessing health services and healthcare insurance;
b. racial, cultural, and linguistic bias and discrimination in healthcare;
c. gender bias and discrimination in healthcare;
d. citizenship and nationality bias and discrimination in healthcare;
e. ability-related bias and discrimination in healthcare.
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Clinical Ethics and Caring for Immigrant Refugee Patients
Tuesday February 11, 2025 2:55pm - 3:45pm MST
Cambridge Room
Over the last two years, Colorado has seen a significant rise in undocumented migrants in need of healthcare services. While the marked increase in the migrant community creates financial and social questions around housing and work, they also raise ethical questions for healthcare professionals. This presentation will describe features of the migrant patient populations, identify concerns they present with, and finally, suggest ways to address clinical ethical questions that arise in providing care.

Objectives:

1. Describe what is driving the increase in the migrant patient population.

2. Identify what needs migrant patients might present with and how to create an environment in which their concerns can best be addressed.

3. Understand clinical ethics questions that emerge when caring for undocumented patients.
Speakers
avatar for Michael McCarthy, PhD HEC-C

Michael McCarthy, PhD HEC-C

Associate Professor and Director for the Graduate Program in Healthcare Mission Leadership, Loyola University Chicago
Michael McCarthy, PhD, HEC-C is an Associate Professor and Director for the Graduate Program in Healthcare Mission Leadership at Loyola University Chicago's Neiswanger Institute for Bioethics. His research and scholarship focuses on questions of justice and inequality in healthcare... Read More →
Tuesday February 11, 2025 2:55pm - 3:45pm MST
Cambridge Room
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