Integritas InstituteHealthcare Ethics
Mission Statement
The Integritas Institute for Healthcare Ethics at the University of Illinois at Chicago seeks to promote and engage in intellectual exchange through fostering an ongoing discussion of those issues that arise at the intersection of medicine and faith. Such discussion seeks to raise the consciousness of healthcare professionals during their formation and continuing professional development in the following three areas of concern:
- Integrity of the health care provider
- The ethical and just distribution of health care in our society
- Improved care for patients in regard to the non-medical components of the human experience of illness (such as loneliness, suffering, and the inevitability of death)
The Institute will Address:
- Assistance in the spiritual and ethical formation and education of health care professionals
- Reflection on the notion of a just community and the just distribution of health care
- Insight into and exploration of those components of the human experience of illness which transcend the science of medicine