Office of Healthcare Ethics
The Office of Healthcare Ethics (OHE) is a department within Nebraska Medicine that works improve the quality of health care through the identification, analysis, and resolution of ethical questions or concerns.
The OHE provides ethics expertise to physicians, nurses and all other staff, patients and families through:
- The Ethics Consultation Services, which helps patients, families, physicians and staff to navigate difficult or complex situations and to make difficult decisions about patient care in a respectful atmosphere with attention to the interests, rights, and responsibilities of all those involved
- The Healthcare Ethics Committee, which provides a forum and a resource for all Nebraska Medicine constituencies, and which serves as a mechanism for communicating and reflecting the organization’s core values and best practices
- Educational opportunities, which can be offered to in-house staff (through Grand Rounds presentations or other formal or informal avenues) and to the community as requested
- Organizational policy and guidelines review, which helps to:
- Promote clinical and organizational practices consistent with ethical norms and standards
- Inform institutional efforts at policy development, quality improvement, and the appropriate utilization of resources by identifying ethical concerns, responses and alternatives
- Peer support for staff, which includes managing the Peers in Need (PiNS) Support Program and coordinating regularly scheduled Schwartz Center Rounds
To request an ethics consultation, or contact the Office of Healthcare Ethics:
Call: 402.552.3647
Page: 888.ETHC (888.3842)
Email: ethics@nebraskamed.com
Or call the Provider Access Service at 802.847.2700, and ask to speak with the ethicist on call.
You can also visit us in Clarkson Doctors Building South, Suite 321, on the Nebraska Medical Center campus in, Omaha, NE, 68198-7400.