Resources and publications

• Building a moral distress plan
• Co-gendered room assignment
• Code of conduct
  • Available in Arabic | French | Hindi | Punjabi | Simplified Chinese | Spanish | Vietnamese
• Ethical considerations for recruiting international nurses
• Ethical decision-making framework policy
• Just workplace framework
• Mission discernment tool
• Outsourcing services framework
• Patient/resident concerns resolution procedures
• Patient/resident concerns resolution process policy
• Self-care planning tool

The Health Ethics Guide is the foundational ethics resource used by Covenant Health.

The guide:

• informs our key policies, ethics consultations and ethics education
• is referenced in our Cooperation and Service Agreement with Alberta Health Services
• helps healthcare professionals navigate complex ethical issues while providing care
• is key to board orientation, leadership development programs for staff and physician privileging
• is given to every director, manager and department at Covenant Health

Catholic Health Alliance of Canada compendiums

The Catholic Health Alliance of Canada (CHAC) Ethics Network has developed compendium documents to further articulate and support the positions laid out in the Health Ethics Guide.

• Catholic Identity and Its Relationship to Governance
• Medical Assistance in Dying in Canada: A Brief Background for People Working in Catholic Healthcare
• Responding to the Reality of MAID: Three Points of Focus for Catholic Health

Find all issues in our newsletter archive.

• Transforming Ethics Workshop (March 2024)
• Transforming Ethics Workshop (February 2024)
• Transforming Ethics Workshop (January 2024)
• We Are the Ecology: Renewing the Conditions for Care Within Ourselves, Our Teams and Our Organizations (2024)
• Responsibility (2023)
• Right's Talk: Exploring the Language of Rights in Health Care (2022)
• Embracing Our Power to Care Kindly (2022)
• What Do We Know and How Do We Know It? (2021)
• Trust During Uncertain Times (2021)
• Claims, Bias and Tensions Concerning Human Dignity in Catholic Health Care (2021)
• Confronting Racism in Communities of Care: Trust, Respect and Accountability (2021)
• Solidarity (2021)
• Reimagining Belonging: Participation as the Path to Wholeness (2021)
• Covenant Health and the Public Interest Commissioner

• for pharmacists
• for physicians, residents and medical students
• for registered nurses
• for social workers
• for spiritual care workers

Covenant Health Palliative Institute and personal directives

The Covenant Health Palliative Institute is committed to alleviating suffering for patients and their families by supporting excellence in palliative and end-of-life care.

Information on personal directives — what they are and how they work — is available from the Alberta government.

Medical assistance in dying information 

We support those in our care who are looking for more information about options, including palliative and hospice care. However, we do not take part in or provide medical assistance in dying.

See our policy and more information on this issue.

• 2022-23 Annual report on disclosures
• 2021-22 Annual report on disclosures

• 2023-24 Summary of activities report
• 2022-23 Summary of activities report
• 2021-22 Summary of activities report
• 2020-21 Summary of activities report
• 2019-20 Summary of activities report