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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.


Wednesday, May 22 • 1:50pm - 2:40pm
Barriers to Quality Health Care, An Emergency Physician's Perspective

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The business of medicine has resulted in record profits for healthcare organizations, drug companies and more recently, corporate equity firms. Those left behind include healthcare providers and most concerning and worrying, the patients. Despite the revolution of Obamacare, more and more barriers to healthcare are arising all of the time. As always the Emergency Department is left to serve as the failsafe but even there, cracks are showing.

Objectives:
  • Understand the barriers to healthcare that patients face every day.
  • Recognize the ethical questions raised by a model of healthcare that puts profits first.


Speakers
avatar for Jeffrey Sankoff, MD

Jeffrey Sankoff, MD

Emergency Physician, Denver Health Medical Centre
Dr. Sankoff is an emergency physician with critical care training at Denver Health Medical Center. He also serves on the Ethics committee there and as of 2024 is a board member for CHEF. He was born and raised in Montreal, Quebec, Canada where he attended medical school and undertook... Read More →

Wednesday May 22, 2024 1:50pm - 2:40pm MDT
Cambridge Room
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