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Giving Thanks: The Ethics Of Grateful Patient Fundraising, Stacey A. Tovino
Giving Thanks: The Ethics Of Grateful Patient Fundraising, Stacey A. Tovino
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Grateful patient fundraising, defined as the solicitation of philanthropic donations by health care providers from current and former patients, raises a number of legal and ethical issues. Elsewhere, I detailed the confidentiality issues raised by the use and disclosure of patient identifiable information by hospital development officers, major gifts officers, institutionally-related foundations, and commercial fundraisers, and proposed corrections to federal health information confidentiality regulations to better balance the competing aims of health care philanthropy and health information confidentiality. In this Article, I analyze several outstanding issues raised by physician involvement in grateful patient fundraising. That is, physicians who solicit philanthropic …
Silence Is Golden . . . Except In Health Care Philanthropy, Stacey A. Tovino
Silence Is Golden . . . Except In Health Care Philanthropy, Stacey A. Tovino
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Where Were The Lawyers?, Mary E. Berkheiser, Ed Hendricks
Where Were The Lawyers?, Mary E. Berkheiser, Ed Hendricks
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In March 1992, the Office of Thrift Supervision sent shock waves through the legal community when it initiated a $275 million enforcement actions against New York’s Kaye, Scholer, Fierman, Hays & Handler and froze the firm’s assets, all based on the firm’s alleged misdeeds in representing the now-defunct Lincoln Savings & Loan. The OTS action, together with the recent spate of prefessional liability suits by the Resolution Trust Corporation and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, raises questions with far-reaching consequences for the legal profession. Perhaps most disturbing, particularly in light of the OTS’s unprecedented assault on Kaye, Scholer, is the …