Our Promise
  

I am pleased to introduce to you the PeaceHealth Promise: Dedicated to Exceptional Medicine and Compassionate Care.

The PeaceHealth Promise is a concise way of stating what is most important to all of us at PeaceHealth. It captures the essence of our mission, vision and values in a way that can be clearly understood.


Below are some of the key messages inherent in the PeaceHealth Promise.

Alan Yordy, 
PeaceHealth CEO

Dedicated to…Exceptional Medicine:

  • We carry on the heritage of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace, who founded St. Joseph Hospital in 1890 to provide medical care to people in need.
     

  • We innovate to achieve superior clinical and operational outcomes for our patients.
     

  • We are committed to working collaboratively in our communities to provide seamless health care services across the continuum.
     

  • We invest in leading-edge information and clinical technologies to promote innovation and improve the health status of the communities we serve.
     

  • Our physicians and other caregivers are highly skilled and motivated, and strive to provide the right level of care at the right time.
      

  • We are a learning organization, continually seeking new ways to develop and enable our caregivers to offer the safe, effective, timely, efficient, evidence- and outcomes-based care they want to give.
      

  • We are sensitive to the unique preferences of individual patients, and treat patients and family members as active, informed participants in the care process.
      

  • We are committed to the principles of continuous quality improvement across our health care system.

          

Dedicated to…Compassionate Care

  • We are dedicated to providing healing and compassionate care, with patients and family members at the center.
       

  • From our faith tradition, healing and compassionate care involves healing in a holistic sense: physical, emotional, and spiritual, as well as quality treatment.
      

  • Our caregivers are in service to our patients, bringing the mission and values of the Sisters to life in their day-to-day work.
       

  • The physical settings in which we care for patients and their family members offer a sacred place for healing, comfort, and renewal. 
       

  • Our caregivers are supported in their work through a culture of integrity and continuous improvement and have ample opportunities to learn and grow, both personally and professionally. 
      

  • Relationships between and among caregivers and patients are highly valued and instill a sense of healing, compassion, openness, trust, and accountability.
       

Working together, we can ensure that our patients, their families, our employees, and the communities we serve know us for our promise, Dedicated to Exceptional Medicine and Compassionate Care.