Advocate Lutheran Gen Hosp

Description

Mission Values and Philosophy

Related to the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and the United Church of Christ Advocates health and healing ministry began over one hundred years ago A faithbased mission of caring has been the foundation of our heritage for over one hundred years

Mission

quotThe mission of Advocate Health Care is to serve the health needs of individuals families and communities through a wholistic philosophy rooted in our fundamental understanding of human beings as created in the image of Godquot

Values

Advocate exists to serve The core values of compassion equality excellence partnership and stewardship guide our actions as we work together to provide health services to others in our communities

EQUALITY We affirm the worth and spiritual freedom of each person and treat all people with respect integrity and dignity

COMOASSION We embrace the whole person and respond to emotional ethical and spiritual concerns as well as physical needs in our commitment to unselfishly care for others

EXCELLENCE We empower people to continually improve the outcomes of our service to advance quality and to increase innovation and openness to new ideas

PARTNERSHIP We collaborate as employees physicians volunteers and community leaders to utilize the talents and creativity of all persons

STEWARDSHIP We are responsible and accountable for all that we are have and do


Philosophy

The care we provide is wholistic This philosophy means we understand people have physical emotional and spiritual needs and their relations to God themselves their families and society are vital to health and healing Finally we believe all people are created in the image of God All human beings live under Gods care and must be treated with dignity and respect

The mission values and philosophy of Advocate are often referred to as the quotMVPquot By integrating them into every aspect of the organizations these principles have strengthened the foundation of the Advocate culture in which we all work and serve

We believe each person is created in the image of God

We respect include and serve people without regard to race religion age disability gender sexual orientation or socioeconomic status

We seek to assure the spiritual freedom of all persons

We extend our concern for the whole person to our patients employees physicians volunteers trustees and their families

We address clinical business corporate and socialethical issues from a faith perspective and assist individuals families and professions in the resolution of these issues

We are guided by the principles of justice in addressing our social responsibility as a corporate citizen in this society

We are responsible and accountable in the spirit of stewardship for all the resources under our management to assure the accomplishment of our Mission

We believe in effective collaboration with those individuals and entities interested in addressing the health care needs of our region

History

Lutheran General HealthSystem quotLGHSquot
Statement of Origin
Founded in 1897 by Norwegians who had settled on the Northwest Side of Chicago LGHS originally was known as the Norwegian Lutheran Deaconess Home and Hospital It carried on a broad community program of social work and care for courtadjudicated youths as well as operating a hospital and a training school for nurses and deaconesses In 1904 the organization came under the control of the Norwegian Lutheran Church in America which later evolved into the Evangelical Lutheran Church The American Lutheran Church and now the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America

The greatest period of growth for LGHS began in 1959 when Lutheran General Hospital was opened in Park Ridge Illinois At the same time the Lutheran Institute of Human Ecology was formed to establish ministries in alcoholism and substance abuse senior services parish nursing bioethics and medical education LGHS grew into a vertically integrated service organization committed to providing a continuum of health care for its communities