| Guiding Principles
Pemi-Baker Home Health & Hospice and Aquatic Wellness services and programs, as well as relationships with patients, families, staff, colleagues and the community, are guided by a commitment to our beliefs and values.
We believe and value the following principles:
- The patient is our primary focus and each individual is treated with compassion, dignity and respect.
- Patients, families, and providers working in partnership make the best care team.
- Care appropriately provided in the home setting enhances patient choice, independence, and the potential for healing.
- Caring for our patients involves the consideration of all aspects of life, physical, emotional, financial, spiritual and social.
- Terminally ill patients have the right to die in the setting they choose and surrounded by their family.
- Home care, hospice services, outpatient aqua therapy and wellness programs are available to all.
- Participation in programs that promote a healthy community.
- Timely accurate information allows staff, patients and families to make good decisions.
- Each staff member is an integral part of the agency, well trained, compensated fairly, rewarded for initiative, supportive of one another and works in a safe environment.
- Quality is enhanced through ongoing education, evaluation, process improvement, safe work practices, financial integrity and compliance with Medicare Conditions of Participation.
- We expect our staff to exhibit ethical behavior, confidentiality, accountability, creativity and professional development.
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