Mount Vernon Hospital

Description

Mission Statement
The Mount Vernon Hospital and Sound Shore Health System dedicate themselves to providing quality healthcare services to Mount Vernon and surrounding communities by delivering efficient effective and collaborative healthcare programs that promote the health of every community member especially those who are sick and disabled This is accomplished by determining developing and implementing healthcare programs designed to

Optimize the use of all available healthcare hospital health system and
community services through the collaborative efforts of health system and
hospital staff community leaders and local and regional organizations

Provide a climate in which patients pain is regularly assessed and promptly
and efficiently managed

Provide health education to community members and healthcare workers and
training programs for physicians and nurses

Identify and carry out quality improvement efforts that include community and
community members views of hospital and health system programs

Visions Statement
In the context of developing affiliation strategies that promote the longterm wellbeing of both the health system and the hospital explore for The Mount Vernon Hospital its role and programs for the coming decade While pursuing this planning initiative maintain the financial stability of the hospital in order to provide needed and appropriate acute medical behavioral health and ambulatory care services

Core Values Statement
The hospital dedicates itself to providing quality healthcare to the communities it serves It believes that the core values of caring compassion respect responsibility integrity and confidentiality form the building blocks upon which all employee interactions are based

Hospital staff is expected to commit to these core values and to use them to guide their interactions with patients families visitors fellow employees physicians vendors and any other individual seeking services or doing business with the hospital