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2024 Colorado Healthcare Ethics Forum (CHEF) ANNUAL CONFERENCE 

The 2024 Colorado Healthcare Ethics Forum annual conference will explore healthcare equity, focusing on difficult ethical challenges and solutions that advance the fair and just delivery of healthcare to under-served and underrepresented populations. Addressing healthcare disparities requires a multi-faceted approach, including policy changes, increased cultural humility in healthcare delivery, improved access to education and preventive services, and efforts to address health-related social needs. Identifying and recognizing the interconnected nature of these disparities will allow providers to work towards equitable healthcare for all people in a manner that aligns with professional and institutional values.

Objectives:

Participants will increase their understanding of ethical problems and solutions concerning healthcare equity, including but not limited to ethical issues arising from:
a. economic barriers to accessing health services and healthcare insurance;
b. racial, cultural, and linguistic bias and discrimination in healthcare;
c. gender bias and discrimination in healthcare;
d. citizenship and nationality bias and discrimination in healthcare;
e. ability-related bias and discrimination in healthcare.


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Constance Holden

Boulder Community Health
Chair Ethics Consultation Team, Boulder Community Health
Constance Holden, RN, MSN holds a graduate degree in oncology nursing from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In 2014, she retired from Boulder Community Health where she served as the Director of Oncology Services and the Chair of the
Palliative Care Program. She currently serves as Co-Chair of the Ethics Committee and Ethics Consultation team at that same institution. She has worked at 6 hospitals and 4 hospice programs in staff and leadership positions. Holden is a member of the Community Advisory Board of the Center for Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Colorado. In 2013, She and Jean Abbott, developed The Conversation Project in Boulder County, modeled after the national project started by Boston Globe columnist, Ellen Goodman.