Center For Practical Bioethics

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• The Center for Practical Bioethics is a nonprofit, free-standing and independent organization nationally recognized for its work. Since 1984, the Center has helped patients, families, healthcare professionals, policymakers and corporate leaders grapple with ethically complex issues in medicine and research.Our mission - to raise and respond to ethical issues in health and healthcare - requires us to be proactive. To call attention to ethical issues and to develop programs, policies and publications that address them and achieve common ground. The results? Reasoned, real-world responses to ethically complex situations and, ultimately, improved health outcomes and peace of mind. The Center's work is led by a staff of talented people representing multiple disciplines and a variety of expertise and supported by a committed Board of Directors. Focus areas in 2017 include:END OF LIFE CARE - The Center helps thousands each year to prepare for the uncertainties of advancing illness and to make their end-of-life wishes known through advance care planning. We are also building coalitions and training providers across Missouri and Kansas in adoption of a form that translates patient goals of care into physician orders that follow the patient.ETHICS EDUCATION & CONSULTATION - We are: (1) designing a regional bioethics education consortium among the area's medical schools, (2) chairing Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences' bioethics program, (3) leading ethics committees and providing ethics consultation services in hospitals and health systems, (4) leading the Kansas City Regional Ethics Committee Consortium, (5) presenting community lectures and symposia, and (6) publishing case studies and other bioethics resources online.EMERGING ISSUES AND SYSTEMS CHANGE - Current focus areas include: (1) changing the way chronic pain is perceived, judged and treated, (2) gun violence as a public health issues, and (3) racism in medical education.
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  Headquarters:1111 Main Street Suite 500, Kansas City, Missouri, United States

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  Phone Number: +1 800-344-3829

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  Website: https://www.practicalbioethics.org

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  Employees:21

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  Revenue:$1 - 10M

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  Legal Name:Center For Practical Bioethics

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