VA Maryland Health Care System

Ethics Advisory Team

The VA Maryland Health Care System has an Ethics Advisory Team that meets monthly to discuss ethical issues affecting patient care and the health care system. 
The Ethics Advisory Team is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week to assist staff, volunteers, Veterans and their family members to resolve ethical concerns. While any ethical issue relating to patient care is appropriate to refer to the Ethics Advisory Team, many cases that are addressed relate to the following areas:

• End-of-life care;
• Advance care planning/advance directives;
• Shared decision-making between patients, family members, and clinicians; and
• Appropriateness of care/professionalism.

To contact a member of the Ethics Advisory Team for the VA Maryland Health Care System, please call the following pager number:

For the Perry Point VA Medical Center and the Cambridge or Pocomoke City VA Outpatient Clinics: (410) 447-3508

For the Baltimore VA Medical Center, the Loch Raven VA Community Living & Rehabilitation Center and the Fort Howard, Glen Burnie, or Loch Raven VA Outpatient Clinics: (410) 447-4735

Pager Instructions:
Dial the number listed above and wait until you hear the beeps - then enter your phone number, hit the pound key (#), and hang up.
If you do not receive a response within 15 minutes, call the Operator at the Baltimore VA Medical Center at 1-800-463-6295 and ask him/her to page the 1st or 2nd person on the Ethics On-Call List.