Our Vision, Mission, Purpose and Values
Our vision is to inspire and inform patients, their families, healthcare professionals, and support personnel of ways to improve health outcomes through the practice of patient-centered medicine to attain and maintain a better quality of life
Our mission is to promote patient safety and healthcare quality through education, research and the demonstrated practice of patient-centered healthcare within a supportive organizational culture of safety.
Our purpose is to create synergy among our steadily growing number of communities (nurses, health educators and promoters, business partners, biomedical and safety engineers, health information scientists, environmental experts, interns, fellows, ethicists, Oslerians, and volunteers) and other healthcare professionals to steadily improve the safety, quality, equity, timeliness, effectiveness, and efficiency of healthcare.
Our values are based on:
- Respect all people and cultures seeking knowledge and quality healthcare
- Trust and integrity in all relationships to provide a safe, caring environment in hospitals, nursing homes, clinics, ambulatory care centers, doctors' offices, patients' own homes, and in any setting where health care is delivered
- Stewardship and appropriate use of existing human and monetary resources by forming collaborative partnerships with existing for-profit and non-profit organizations within the City of Houston, the State of Texas, and beyond.
- Shared knowledge and wisdom deriving from communities of people with proven expertise, compassion, and competence-Community of Competence™ trademarked by Elizabeth A. Smith, PhD, Founder and Executive-Director, on November 8, 2005.