Our Vision and Values
Our Vision
Healthy people, amazing care. Koorda moort, moorditj kwabadak.
Our vision captures the essence of what we do and what we inspire each other to do every day – show compassion, dedication and professionalism.
As a health service which celebrates diversity of culture and languages, it is also important that our vision could be shared in the Noongar language.
Our Values
What we do makes a difference to the lives of the people in our community, and our values reflect how we are expected to conduct ourselves every day:
- Kindness
- Excellence
- Respect
- Integrity
- Collaboration
- Accountability
Service Delivery Principles
High performing systems and teams
Deliver high quality, outcome-focused care, promote patient safety and encourage continuous service improvement and team development.
Supporting diversity and inclusion
Partner with diverse communities, including Aboriginal and other culturally diverse groups to create a safe and welcoming environment where our community and staff feel respected and connected to others.
Consumer-centred
Provide consumer driven care that is shaped by listening to what is important to our consumers and their carers and empowers individuals to optimise their health and wellbeing.
Intellectual curiosity
Explore and lead the translation of research into evidence-based practice and innovations that will deliver excellent health outcomes.
Valuing our staff
Provide a safe environment where our workforce is supported to strive for excellence and where staff expertise, contribution and dedication is recognised.
Active partnerships
Maintain healthy people in our communities by building productive partnerships with consideration of the social and cultural determinants of health.
Doing the right thing
Encourage and empower our staff to display behaviours in line with the EMHS values, and support consumers in making the right decisions to support better health outcomes.
Our vision, values and service delivery principles reinforce our shared commitment to delivering excellence in health care to the community we serve.
Our Vision and Values Videos
Watch East Metropolitan Health Service's Chief Executive Liz MacLeod discuss how our common vision Healthy People, Amazing Care can be achieved when we demonstrate the qualities of our six values.
A series of videos have also been produced with the East Metropolitan Health Service Board, who discuss the value that is most important to them and how staff can utilise it every day: