Ethics Review Committee
Provides a supportive and impartial space to address complex care decisions, helping families navigate ethical dilemmas with clarity, compassion, and respect for everyone's values.
Supporting Thoughtful Care Decisions
When you’re receiving treatment for a serious illness or comfort care for a life-limiting illness, the decisions that are made should be yours. Advanced Care Planning helps ensure your voice is heard by allowing you to document your preferences in advance. If you do not have an advance directive that clearly states your specific wishes, and can not make your own choices due to the nature of your illness, others will have to make the decision for you. As a result, your medical team and family may face ethical challenges caused by differences in religious values, personal wishes, or disagreements among family members.
When these types of conflicts arise, we can offer you the guidance of our Ethics Committee—a group of employees and community members led by an Ethicist—that help patients, families and care teams navigate these often difficult situations. Some examples are when family members disagree on the plan of care for their loved one or when the caregiver’s beliefs don’t align with those of the patient or the rest of the family.
During these instances, the Ethics Committee can:
- Help resolve conflict
- Clarify decision-making
- Help ensure that decisions are consistent with health care law and our professional organizations’ standards.
- Support families and patients
- Offer staff support
MJHS Hospice and Palliative Care is Here For You
Whether you’re seeking symptom management for a serious illness or support at the end of life, we’re ready to provide the specialized care and guidance you need.
Get in Touch with MJHS Hospice & Palliative Care
Whether you or your loved one needs hospice or palliative care, MJHS provides compassionate support focused on comfort, dignity, and quality of life. Our expert team will work closely with you and your family to honor your wishes and provide care that meets your unique needs.
MJHS Hospice Care
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1-212-420-3370
MJHS Palliative Care
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1-212-649-5250
Supportive Resources
When care focuses on comfort and quality of life near the end of life, it becomes a time centered on peace, dignity, and connection. Whether you are supporting a loved one through their final months, weeks, or days, hospice care helps manage pain, ease symptoms, and honor emotional and spiritual needs. This section offers helpful information about hospice care to guide and support you through this meaningful time.
Advance Directives: What They Are and How To Make Them
Advance Directives ensure that your wishes about treatment will be followed if you cannot decide for yourself. Read about some of the most used advance directives.
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How to Talk to Loved Ones About Your End-of-Life Wishes
Conversations about end-of-life decisions are delicate, personal, and unique — and rarely, if ever, begun and completed in one sitting. One thing is sure, given the mobility of our society, the advances in medical technology, and the continuing cultural denial of death: The need for these conversations has never been more profound.
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What is a Health Care Proxy?
A Health Care Proxy allows you to appoint someone you trust, like a family member or close friend, to make health care decisions for you if you lose the ability to make them yourself. Learn more.
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