Grace Hospital Mission Statement Paper

On Grace Hospital’s website, the hospital doesn’t list their own mission, vision, and values statements. Instead, Grace Hospital has referenced the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority’s own mission, vision, and values statements.

Mission Statement

The Winnipeg Regional Health Authority’s mission statement is “to co-ordinate and deliver safe and caring services that promote health and well-being.” At Grace Hospital, there is a need to work collaboratively in order to provide patient-centred care to our patients. This involves the coordination of services by various health care providers including physicians, nurses, and allied health professionals. As a social worker at Grace Hospital, I work with patients and families to develop and implement

Vibrant Communities. Care for All.” At Grace Hospital, the primary goal is to address the medical needs of our patients and continue to these patients in the community for as long as possible. When a patient is admitted to my unit, I am working with the clinical care team including physicians, nurses, physiotherapist, occupational therapist, dietitian, and hospital based care coordinator to ensure that our patients have the resources to help them thrive when they return home to their own community. We are able to achieve this by constantly communicating with one another as well as communicating with our patients and their families to determine which community resources would best suit each specific patient. We have referred our patients to various community programs including the Home Care program, the Geriatric Program Assessment Teams (GPAT) and the Geriatric Mental Health Teams (GMHT) program, and Community Therapy Services. All of these programs are designed to assess the patients in their own homes to determine how the patients are managing at home and determine whether the patients would benefit from additional services and resources. In addition, by partnering up with different community resources, our patients are able to access the help and information that they need from the community rather than be at risk of being readmitted to the hospital due to a lack of

At Grace Hospital, we work to respect the wishes of our patients through self-determination and patient-driven care through the involvement of patients and their families in the patient’s plan of care. As a social worker at Grace Hospital, I work from a strength-based, anti-oppressive framework. It is important for me to understand each patient’s ecosystem (i.e. support system), their own personal values and beliefs, and the knowledge and skills that they possess. By working from this framework, I am trying to develop a mutual trust and respect for one another which enables me to work together with the patient to develop an appropriate plan of action to help resolve their identified issues and concerns. When the clinical care team is working with a patient, we strive to provide them with all of the information and options to allow them to make an informed decision. There have been cases in which the patients have chosen not to follow through with the recommendations that have been made by the clinical care team. In these situations, we have chosen to respect a patient’s decision as long as they are competent to make their own informed