Attending Physician/Clinical Ethics Consultant
Coler Rehabilitation and Nursing Care Center
Howard J. Finger, D.O., is attending physician/clinical ethics consultant at Coler Rehabilitation and Nursing Care Center and at Henry J. Carter Specialty Hospital and Nursing Facility, where he serves as president of the medical staff. He was co-chairperson of the NYC Health + Hospitals Bioethics Council from 2019 to 2022. He currently is a member of the PALTmed Ethics Subcommittee and the Empire State Bioethics Consortium (ESBC), where he served on its board of directors from2021 to 2024. He was lead author of three articles on end-of-life decision-making for the unbefriended. In 2020, he received the Foundation for Post-Acute & Long-Term Care Medicine’s Quality Improvement & Health Outcome Award for his work in this field.