Working at PeaceHealth

Spirit of PeaceHealth
Desired Culture

Exceptional Medicine and Compassionate Care
In Service to Others: PeaceHealth Leadership Model
Opportunities

Desired Culture

Before you consider a career with PeaceHealth, it’s important to know some of the qualities that we look for in our people and the attributes we believe are needed to be successful here. This will help you determine if our values and expectations are in line with yours.

Exceptional Medicine and Compassionate Care Culture Definition

Our promise of exceptional medicine and compassionate care is a continuation of the healing ministry begun in 1890 in Bellingham by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace and their lay colleagues when they founded St. Joseph Hospital to care for loggers, mill workers, and their families. Our promise guides what we do and how we go about doing it. It is relationship centered. It is based on the ethic that everything in the environment affects recovery and healing. Very little is neutral; almost everything can either enhance or impair the healing process.

From our faith tradition, exceptional medicine and compassionate care integrates healing in a holistic sense: a focus on the physical, emotional, and spiritual as we provide highly reliable, safe clinical treatment, striving to use the best that technology and science can provide.

It guides us as we continue to develop strength as one healthcare system serving many communities. It guides us as we develop our models of care in service to our patients and families. It guides us in how we hire, develop and respond to the needs of our caregivers. It guides us as we design facilities. It guides us as we continuously improve systems, processes, programs and organizational infrastructures.

We will have fulfilled our promise when every PeaceHealth patient receives safe, evidence-based, compassionate care: every time, every touch.

It combines the science and art, the head and heart of our health care ministry.

This is the cornerstone of our culture at PeaceHealth.

Toward our Desired Culture of Exceptional Medicine and Compassionate Care

"Creating a seamless system of care across the communities we serve has long been a vision of PeaceHealth.  Amazing efforts are underway throughout PeaceHealth to do this in a patient-centered, healing and compassionate way.

"We know that we can only fulfill our mission, vision, and desired culture if employees are committed, enjoy their work, and value their role as caregivers in service to PeaceHealth patients, families, and one another.  We are working hard to create an environment where relationships are respected and caregivers have ample opportunity to learn and grow, both personally and professionally.

"We listen to patients and family members.  They have the right to fully participate in decisions about their health care.  We continue to seek out ways to include patients in their care process, and incorporate their suggestions for improvement."

Judy Hodgson, Senior Vice President,
Mission, Culture and People, PeaceHealth


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In Service to Others: PeaceHealth Leadership Model

At PeaceHealth, leadership is a co-created activity in which we are all leaders and followers in service to a shared vision. The following model expresses the view that who we are as well as what we do is essential to realizing our mission and vision at PeaceHealth. It also reinforces the possibilities that exist in our constant focus on continuous improvement and the importance of the role of our leaders to inspire the hearts and spirits of those they serve.

Explore the PeaceHealth Leadership Model in more detail.

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Opportunities

If you feel that your values and goals are aligned with the culture and spirit of PeaceHealth, we invite you to take a look at our opportunities in Oregon, Washington, and Alaska. We have positions available for Physicians, Nurses and Allied Health Professionals, as well as IT, Administration and Support Services. To view our current opportunities, please click here.

 

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