Take the role of a corporate VP who is reviewing the case and charged with working with the administration at Charleston Community Memorial Hospital and evaluate as if it were a report guiding your corrective action plans and future discussions with the administrator. Recommend several additional thoughts on the legal and ethical considerations provided by your classmate that will help guide your corrective action discussion. Legal and Ethical Concepts The hospital and staff had ethical and legal responsibilities to this patient. Legally, the hospital and its administrators were responsible for ensuring the competency of its staff, including physicians and nurses, and for having an adequate number of staff to provide that care. Another legal responsibility the hospital owed to the patient was timely care (Pozgar, 2016). These legal responsibilities coincide with the physician's ethical responsibilities of providing competent, compassionate care and using other health professionals' skills as provided by the American Medical Association's (AMA) Principles of Medical Ethics (American Medical Association, 2001, June). These responsibilities were not upheld in this case. The patient did not receive the competent, timely care he deserved, and the physician with the required expertise was not initially consulted.
A. Legal implications
B. Ethical considerations
C. Recommended actions
D. Corrective action plans