Our Vision

VISION STATEMENT

THE WEST NIPISSING GENERAL HOSPITAL will improve the health status of our population through integration of service and in cooperation with our partners.

MISSION STATEMENT

THE WEST NIPISSING GENERAL HOSPITAL is committed to the delivery of quality primary healthcare to the people of West Nipissing and surrounding areas by utilizing innovative skills, technology and best practices.

CORE VALUES

We Value:

• Patient Centered Care;
• Compassion and Integrity;
• Respect;
• Patient and employee safety;
• Research and professional development;
• Quality of worklife; and
• Multiculturalism

CODE OF ETHICS - BUSINESS CONDUCT

THE WEST NIPISSING GENERAL HOSPITAL has integrated its ethical responsibilities into its day-to-day operations.

1. To consider first, the interest of our hospital in all transactions and to carry out and believe in its established policies. 
2. To buy and negotiate without prejudice, seeking to obtain the maximum ultimate value for each dollar of expenditure so the patient may receive the best care possible at as low a cost as possible. 
3. To be receptive to competent counsel for decision making purposes. 
4. To respect our obligations and to require that obligations to us and to our hospital be respected, consistent with good business practice. 
5. To subscribe to and work for honest truth in all dealings and to denounce all forms and manifestations of bribery. 
6. To decline personal gifts and gratuities that might influence decision-making. 
7. To avoid deceptive practice. 
8. To counsel and assist colleagues in the performance of their duties whenever occasion permits. 
9. To cooperate with all organizations and individuals engaged in activities designed to enhance the development of sound hospital administration. 

CODE OF ETHICS - PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT

THE WEST NIPISSING GENERAL HOSPITAL has integrated its ethical responsibilities into its day-to-day operations.

1. To widely communicate our mission, vision and value statements that reflects our caring and ethical culture. 
2. To provide standards together with our mission, vision and value statements when representing the Hospital in its dealings with patients, families and other healthcare providers. 
3. To recognize those individual caregivers' personal cultural values, ethics and religious beliefs may, on occasion, be in conflict with the care or treatment to be provided to individual patients. 
4. To inform patients of research or educational activities that may affect their care. Patients have a right to decide whether to participate in any experimental, research or educational activity. 
5. To approve all procedures that encourages the donation of organs and tissues. Our Hospital policy 100.47 requires sensitivity to the family's circumstances regarding potential donation. 
6. The Medical Staff Executive Committee takes all reasonable steps and responsibility "to ensure professionally ethical conduct.
7. To process applications for medical staff appointment mandates. 
8. To welcome comments from patients and families regarding our services. These comments are used as opportunities to enhance services. 
9. The Ethics Committee assists with ethical issues in the patient care, as needed. 
10. The Hospital Foundation raises funds for the Hospital, its programs and equipment. 
11. To ensure all patients presenting to the Emergency Room are entitled to a health care professional screening process. 
12. To ensure privacy and security of all confidential patient information. (Hospital policy 100.43) 
13. To recognize, assess and manage pain in a compassionate manner in the early stages as part of our Pain Management Program.