We Need Healthcare, Not Policing, For Immigrant Patients

We Need Healthcare, Not Policing, For Immigrant Patients

(MedPage Today) -- The mission of the healing professions and healthcare institutions is the health of patients and their communities. It is not to police them. But politics sometimes creates conditions that jeopardize this mission. In fact, in...

Plan, Safeguard, Care: An Ethical Framework for Health Care Institutions Responding to Immigrant Enforcement Actions

There have been several recent efforts to outline the ethical duties of hospitals and other health care settings on how to respond to actions by Immigration and Customs Enforcement or other authorities concerning immigration enforcement in these settings. Here, we synthesize and build on those efforts, drawing on prior work by The Hastings Center,  to create a practical ethical framework for health care institutions. Key sources include “Health …