Mission Statement
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"The mission of the Department of Emergency Medicine is to provide the highest quality adult and pediatric emergency patient care, education, and research." |
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 Joseph P. Ornato, MD :: Department Chair |
Shared values cover the areas of patient care, research, and education. We believe that our patient care should be compassionate, cost-effective, comprehensive, timely, appropriate, evidence based, interdisciplinary, respectful, and responsive. Our personnel should be professional, dedicated, accountable, responsive, committed, patient focused, communicative, qualified (specialty trained, certified, experienced, competent, cross trained), education oriented, research oriented, and team oriented. Logistical support should be responsive, efficient, anticipatory, information driven, and cost-effective.
Our facility should be attractive, clean, safe, convenient, accessible, comfortable, efficient, and operational at all times.
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Communication should be responsive (to patients, families, employers, insurers, referring physicians, primary care physicians, consultants, pre-hospital providers, staff, and community), convenient, respectful, professional, ethical, confidential, and frequent. Our quality management should be effective, efficient, timely, proactive, multidisciplinary, and a shared responsibility of all health-care professionals. Research should be relevant to emergency care, multidisciplinary, collaborative, scientifically sound, ethical, and funded whenever possible.
Our educational programs should be multidimensional (including patients, families, staff, undergraduates, postgraduates, and members of the community), relevant to emergency patient care, interdisciplinary, appropriate to our audience, accessible, ongoing, and current.
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VCU MEDICAL CENTER : 1200 Marshall Avenue : Richmond VA 23223 : 804.828.0951