Exceptional Medicine & Compassionate Care
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 health care 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.
