Ethics

The goal of the Ethics program at the Brant Community Healthcare System (BCHS) is to build ethics capacity and nurture a culture that helps us "do the right thing" when engaging in providing healthcare and doing healthcare research.

What is Ethics?

Ethics is the systematic examination of facts, beliefs, standards and values in determining the rightness or wrongness of decisions and actions. Ethics involves expanding our focus from what is good for me, to consider "the greater good." Ethics is not merely having an opinion or gut reaction, but involves reasoned deliberation to address the question: "What is the best thing to do, all things considered?"