Mission

To improve the health of the public through the development of patient centered programs related to ethics and professionalism in education, research, clinical service, and organizational performance.

Specific Goals

In partnership with the University of Missouri School of Medicine, University of Missouri Health Care and others CHE will strive to:

I. Promote patient centered health care by providing leadership for a clinical ethics initiative including a hospital based clinical ethics committee and consult service that will devise ways to provide services locally, regionally, and statewide.

II. Establish and promote initiatives in health ethics and professionalism through education and training by engaging faculty, students, patients, private health care professionals, and the public. 

III. Develop innovative programs to enhance relationships between patients and health care professionals within health care systems.

IV. Promote ethical behavior of organizations by encouraging principles of organizational ethics and systemic processes for discerning and applying ethical principles and values in decision-making

V. Collaborate with faculty and other key individuals in developing research initiatives that will address the ethical concerns of end of life care, health care access, treatment of vulnerable populations,  genomics, health management, and informatics.