More than a dozen healthcare organizations were named to Ethisphere's 2017 list of the "World's Most Ethical Companies."
Ethisphere Institute is a global leader in defining and advancing the standards of ethical business practices. The "World's Most Ethical Companies" program recognizes companies that excel in three key areas: promoting ethical business standards and practices internally; enabling managers and employees to make good choices; and shaping future industry standards by introducing new best practices.
Selection for the list is based on Ethisphere's proprietary rating system, called the corporate Ethics Quotient. The EQ is comprised of a series of multiple choice questions that aim to capture a company's performance in an objective and standardized way. Click here for more details on the methodology.
Here are the 16 healthcare organizations that made it on this year's list of the World's Most Ethical Companies.
- Premier (Charlotte, N.C., and Washington, D.C.)
- Blue Shield of California (San Francisco)
- CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield (Baltimore and Washington, D.C.)
- Health Care Service Corporation (Chicago)
- Henry Schein (Melville, N.Y.)
- Baptist Health South Florida (Miami)
- Cleveland Clinic
- Covenant Health (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada)
- Hospital Corporation of America (Nashville, Tenn.)
- Northwell Health (New Hyde Park, N.Y.)
- Sharp HealthCare (San Diego)
- University Hospitals (Cleveland)
- Edwards Lifesciences (Irvine, Calif.)
- Eli Lilly and Co. (Indianapolis)
- Vizient (Irving, Texas)
- Wisconsin Physicians Services Insurance Corp. (Madison)
Take a look at last year's list here.