Mission
Through excellence and leadership to optimize the health & wellbeing of infants, children, and youth within the context of their families.
Vision
Our mission will be accomplished through the following practices:
- Comprehensive and complex clinical care at the highest level
- Dynamic education of professionals involved in pediatric health that puts the needs of learners first
- Innovative and transformative research in pediatric health at the bench, at the bedside, in the clinics, and in the population at large
- Effective advocacy on behalf of vulnerable pediatric populations as an engaged partner with the communities we serve
- Commitment to an effective, efficient, transparent, and accountable organization that encourages professional growth
Values
To achieve our mission, we seek to weave the following into all our ongoing activities:
- Compassionate caring that is at all times in partnership with the children and families we serve; culturally sensitive in its orientation; and shared between disciplines, professions, and allied community-based partners
- Dedication to knowledge translation that improves pediatric health care practice and outcomes, that is evidence-based in its choices, that is innovative, and that provides objective rationale for policy makers
- Professionals who are invariably respectful, honest, tolerant, open to change, passionate, transparent, collegial, communicative, inquisitive, and committed to excellence
- Teamwork and partnerships across disciplines and locales as the best model to provide comprehensive pediatric health care
- Processes that we continually seek to improve, valuing all contributions, and rewarding excellence and effort
- Members and leaders who are accountable to each other
- Commitment to an ingrained ethos of patient safety and quality improvement