Given the pressure surrounding service delivery in the healthcare organizations, the board of members and senior administrators are seeking practical ways of refining the way they set priorities under resource constraints versus the increasing demand. The ethical challenges surrounding the practice environment pose weighty concerns among the healthcare leaders on effective decision-making principles and approaches that could help them in setting priorities. Accordingly, strategic planning plays a critical role in healthcare organizations. Perera and Peiró (2012) consider strategic planning as an entirely valid and valuable tool that guides organizational practices. The process needs to be programmable, rational, systematic, holistic and integrates short, medium, and long-term aspects to help healthcare organizations to focus on the relevant enduring transformation for the future (Perera & Peiró, 2012). In the healthcare strategic planning, certain critical ethical values are essential in guiding the process to ensure rationality, fairness, and sound decision-making among stakeholders. This paper discusses the significant ethical values that guide strategic planning processes in healthcare organizations and the significance of involving ethicists in the planning process.
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For effective planning, the stakeholder should understand strategic planning as an activity with a transformational purpose. It takes into account the prevailing situation of the organization and the setting in which the organization operates and generate a vision of the future of the organization. The process also defines a roadmap and actions for transforming the current situation to the desired future. Many factors justify the need for strategic planning in healthcare