OUR VISION
"Healthy people and healthy communities"
Through telemedicine, we are now offering comprehensive consultations between patients and the teaching faculty of U.S. medical schools
OUR MISSION
We partner with people and communities to protect, promote, and improve the healthcare facilities and healthcare services available.
We accomplish our mission by:
• Providing and supporting the essential health services of:
Prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of diseases, health problems, and threats
to people's health, especially malignant melanoma.
Education, empowerment, and mobilization of
individuals and communities to prevent health problems and improve their health
status.
Promotion of health policies and planning for
individuals and community efforts to improve their health.
Recommending regulations and enforcement of public health laws and policies necessary to control disease and protect the public's well-being.
Facilitating access to health services for individuals of greatest need.
Critically evaluating and refining our healthcare activities and workforce competence.
• Supporting the health-care safety net for:
Children and adults with special health-care needs.
Uninsured and under-insured people and families who need healthcare screening
and basic preventive medical care
OUR PHILOSOPHY
We will accomplish our mission and goals
by adhering to these values:
• Integrity in all of our actions to build patients' trust.
• Inclusiveness and diversity of perspectives to achieve the best solutions.
• Partnerships with people, communities, and organizations to build
a successful healthy community.
• Accountability and responsibility in the use of public resources.
OUR PRIORITIES
• Protect people against preventable deaths
due to malignant melanoma by improving early diagnosis rates and skin cancer
awareness.
• Focus on fitness by promoting healthy eating, tobacco cessation and
regular physical activity.
• Eliminate disparities in health among population groups.
• Improve our ability to respond to disease outbreaks, whether they
are intentionally caused or naturally occurring.
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