Leading Insights, Ethics
The Ethics of Hospital Ownership
Written By: Richard Choi, DO, FNCS; Daryl McHugh, MD, MPH; Alexandra Reynolds, MD, FNCS; Mitch Hargis, MD; Matthew Jaffa, DO
Hospital ownership evokes important questions at the intersection of ethics, economics, and public health. Once founded as charitable institutions devoted to healing the sick, many hospital systems now operate as profit-driven enterprises, raising ethical concerns about whether institutions...