Title: The Community Ethics Program

Funded By: The Nathan Cummings Foundation

Status: Completed

Research Team:
Etienne Phipps, PhD, Project Director
Gala True, PhD, Co-Director
Diana Harris, MA, Project Coordinator
Genevra Murray, BA, Research Assistant
Augusta Villanueva, PhD, Consultant

Overview: This demonstration project focused on promoting awareness and knowledge about patient rights, advance directives, life-sustaining treatments in ethnically/culturally diverse communities. Community forums and focus groups were held with over nine different communities. The community organizations listed below have been our collaborators in this project.

Community Collaborators:

• Alzheimer's Association
• Latino Support Group
• Caanan Baptist Church
• Cambodian Association of Greater Philadelphia
• Center in the Park
• Centro Pedro Claver
• Einstein’s Hospice Program
• Einstein’s Premier Years
• Fern Rock/Ogontz/Belfield Community Development Corporation
• Indochinese American Council
• Korean Community Development Services Center
• Latino Health Consortium
• Philadelphia Corporation for the Aging
• The Emmanuel Church in Philadelphia
• The First Korean Presbyterian Church
• The Jaisohn Center
• The Korean Senior Citizen's Association of Greater Philadelphia
• The Korean United Church

Latino Community Leaders Forum: Participating Organizations

• Alzheimer's Association
• Asociacion Nacional Pro Personas Mayores
• Health District Clinic #6
• Hispanic Partial Hospitalization Program, JFK Community Mental Health Center
• Institute on Aging, University of Pennsylvania
• Keystone Mercy Health Plan
• Magee Rehabilitation Hospital
• MCP Hahnemann University School of Public Health
• Parkview Hospital Congreso de Latinos Unidos
• Philadelphia Corporation for the Aging
• Philadelphia Police Department
• Riverview Home
• Taller Puertoriqueño

Presentations:
Autopsing the Albatross: Unpacking Mistrust in End-of-Life Research (APHA 2001)
Forming Hospital-Community Partnerships to Promote Quality End of Life Care (APHA 2001)

Publications:

Yun, Sung Young. "Support Services for Korean Patients Getting Better: Albert Einstein Medical Center Holds a Forum on Korean Services." The Korea Central Daily, Friday April 28, 2000 (translated from Korean).

Chong, Umi, Phipps, Etienne, True, Gala. "Engaging Korean American Communities in End-of-Life Discussions." Last Acts Electronic Newsletter. February 15, 2001.

Chong, Umi, Phipps, Etienne, True, Gala. "Community Outreach-Addressing End-of-Life Care in Philadelphia's Korean-American Community." ABCD-caring Electronic Newletter. December 2000.

Phipps, Etienne, True, Gala, Pomerantz, Sherry. "Approaches to End-of-Life Care in Culturally Diverse Communities." Last Acts Electronic Newsletter. July 7, 2000.