Clinical Ethics Service
Alberta Health Services - Provincial Health Services
- Description
- A provincial-wide, confidential service that helps patients, families, healthcare providers, and administrators identify and resolve many types of ethical challenges in health care, including organizational ethics.
Offers support to make hard choices about healthcare when people's beliefs and values are in conflict. This provincial-wide service is for patients, their families, healthcare providers, and administrators. Examples include when patients and family members have a hard decision to make about treatment or healthcare providers must deal with a situation that causes moral distress.
The service offers a confidential consult, which may include:
- simple talks
- guided talks with teams
- help making decisions
- help with complex situations and ethical challenges
- organizational ethics
Key Provider: ethicists - Eligibility
- No
- Application Process
- Service Access: See below, To request an Ethics Consultation or make an inquiry:
Call the provincial intake line or send an email to clinicalethics@albertahealthservices.ca
Referral Process: No
Waiting Period: No,
- Telephone
- 1-855-943-2821 (Provincial Intake Line)
- clinicalethics@albertahealthservices.ca
- Languages
- Interpreter/Translation services
- Fees
- Fee: No
Fee Reduction: No
Membership Fee: N/A - Accessibility
- Wheelchair access: N/A -
Other disabled access: N/A - - Agency Information
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- Last Verified On
- April 11, 2025
- Hours of Operation
- Mon08:30 AM to 04:30 PMTue08:30 AM to 04:30 PMWed08:30 AM to 04:30 PMThu08:30 AM to 04:30 PMFri08:30 AM to 04:30 PM
Office is closed on statutory holidays.
