Business View Caribbean | August 2019

33 BUSINESS VIEW CARIBBEAN AUGUST 2019 run facility which offers free health care to its citizens. However, patients/clients who seek medical care, once they possess a health insurance card, the same would be utilized as the required. “Our core values are: Integrity: We believe that honesty, transparency, strong moral principles, and high ethical standards are essential in every aspect of our business. We bring respect, openness and honesty to our encounters with patients, clients, families, and co-workers, and support the well- being of the communities we serve. We will have the courage to accept responsibility for all our actions. “Caring: We treat those we serve and each other with kindness and compassion and strive to better understand and respond to the needs of a diverse community. Excellence: Only the best will do. We work as a team to bring experience, advanced technology, and best practices to bear in providing the highest quality care for our patients, clients, and families. We devote ourselves to continuous quality improvement, excellence, professionalism, and innovation in our work. “Commitment: We are passionate about implementing our organisation’s strategies to the best of our abilities and wholehearted commitment. Safety: Patients, clients, and families have placed their lives and health in our hands. We believe that maintaining the highest of safety standards is critical to delivering high quality care and that a safe workplace protects us all.” BVC: Do partnerships play an important role in operations? Wedderburn: “We partner with private providers in some service areas. For instance, in providing diagnostic services; most private health providers within the parish would seek to access such service from us. In addition, we are in the process of upgrading Radiology to use the Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS) – medical imaging technology which provides economical storage and convenient access to images from multiple modalities. Once the FALMOUTH PUBL I C GENERAL HOSP I TAL JAMA I CA pictured Princess Wedderburn, Chief Executive Officer