MISSION STATEMENT
We exist to serve our clients and the community.
We will work with our community partners to:
- Develop and provide quality health care services
- Promote healthy lifestyles
- Protect against and prevent the spread of disease
- Assure preparedness to achieve and maintain the best public health for our community
VISION
A strong vibrant Health Department recognized as a leading advocate for the health and well-being of the community.
ORGANIZATIONAL VALUES
At Vanderburgh County Health Department, we believe in:
- Ethics – We explicitly identify and debate the principles and values that guide our public health decision-making, and we identify and include stakeholders in that process.
- Diversity – We actively seek to understand the life and work experiences, skills, talents, cultures, ancestries, and histories of our employees and the public to better serve everyone.
- Respect – We take the time to ask “questions for understanding” and fully consider other points of view before we make decisions.
- Communication – We engage in timely, responsive, effective and open information sharing to improve our work and maintain our reputation as a trusted source of health information.
- Collaboration – We work side-by-side with partners, communities, and individuals to improve health and support a strong public health system.
- Preparedness – We are qualified and equipped to respond to threats and emergencies.
GUIDING PRINCIPLES
- Evidence-based Public Health Practice: We will use evidence-based approaches in developing, implementing and evaluating programs and policies.
- Stakeholder and Partnership Engagement: Public health solutions require collaboration with a variety of partners and stakeholders. We will engage stakeholders and partners in the development, implementation and evaluation of strategies, policies and programs to advance the public’s health.
- Transparency: We will work to ensure trust and establish a system of transparency, public participation and collaboration. Transparency promotes accountability, builds trust and keeps stakeholders and partners informed of our activities.
- Health Equity: Health equity exists when all people have the opportunity to attain their full health potential and no one is disadvantaged. We will proactively pursue the elimination of heath inequities and preventable differences in heath among groups based on gender identity, sexual orientation, race and ethnicity, education, income, disability and geographic location.
