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Core Values

Core Values of the Programs in Health Services Administration

  • Balancing community health improvement and organizational priorities to improve community, family, and individual health within evolving cultural, demographic and policy contexts.
  • Developing and maintaining relevant, effective, safe and systemically integrated programs that support health improvement and social responsibility within a community context.
  • Achieving excellence in clinical services within effective health care enterprises and through development of superior management skills, including:
    • Excellence in problem-solving, decision-making and execution
    • Appropriate and timely introduction of organizational change and technological innovation
    • Commitment to continuous process and program improvement
    • Commitment to effective workforce motivation and management
    • Commitment to excellence in operational management and systems integration
    • Strategy management skills achieving stakeholder accountabilities as well as creating and maintaining competitive advantage
  • Demanding intellectual rigor while demonstrating organizational leadership, an orientation toward action, and an ability to integrate paradigm, theory and evidence.
  • Achieving an effective integration of cognitive, affective and experiential learning within an overall systemic and transformational leadership context.
  • Valuing diversity.
  • Supporting lifelong learning goals that incorporate didactic and experiential learning.
  • Demonstrating integrity.