National Health Ethics Week! November 6-12th, 2022

Our Ethics Committee!

Here at HVH, our Ethics Committee is comprised of an interdisciplinary team including Family and Board representation. We meet several times a year to review ethical issues and to ensure that we have handled the matter appropriately, while making recommendations on ways we can improve. Between meetings, if concerns are brought forward, our in-house Sub-Committee meets to discuss the concern, utilizing our Decision-Making Framework. This helps to provide a guide, ensuring decisions made are done so in the most appropriate way within allowable circumstances. When reviewing ethical dilemmas, our goal is to encompass autonomy, justice, beneficence, and non-maleficence. Bottom line – we want to respect resident’s individuality, take into consideration wishes from family and opinions of staff, while advocating for the most benefit and least amount of inconvenience to the greater group.

Did you know? Our team includes a Social Worker and Pastoral Care

support. Both serve as standing members on our Ethics Committee. If you ever feel

your loved one needs additional psychotherapeutic or spiritual support, please let us

know and we can arrange for services to be provided.

Interested in becoming a part of our Ethics Committee? We are currently seeking a

Family Representative to join our team. If interested, please contact our Chair,

Nikki O’Melia at nomelia@hvh.ca.