Calvary Hospital focuses on ethics. Integrating clinical and organizational ethics meets needs of a changing healthcare system.

U Wi are in the second generat ion of heal thcare :thics," said Bart Collopv, PhD, at a conference on "integrated ethics" sponsored by Calvary Hospital, Bronx, NY, April 30. The conference was part of Calvary's program to ensure ethical behavior in the organization's practices as well as in clinical decision making. Collopy explained that the first generation of ethics involved patient rights and care issues such as quality of care and outcomes, and decis ions about l i fe-sustaining t r ea tmen t . Second-generation issues are nonclinical and relate, for example, to how an organization treats employees, acts as an advocate for high-quality patient care whenever quality is threatened or