Documents/HHS2003/Values


  • Value [1] Deliver results
    • To deliver results that are useful both to the people and communities that are directly served by the Department’s programs and to the taxpayers who pay for these programs.

  • Value [2] Be accountable
    • To be an accountable steward of the Department’s programs and enhance the efficiency and quality of the services provided.

  • Value [3] Focus on prevention
    • To focus on health promotion and the prevention of disease and social problems, including the prevention and correction of unlawful discrimination in the provision of health and human services.

  • Value [4] Create collaborations
    • To create useful, effective forms of collaboration with partners in regulation, research, service delivery, and management.

  • Value [5] Provide information
    • To provide accurate, reliable, understandable, and timely information to our partners and customers.

  • Value [6] Seek scientific knowledge
    • To apply the most current scientific knowledge when making decisions that affect public well-being.

  • Value [7] Foster flexibility and innovation
    • To foster flexibility and encourage innovation in the effective delivery of health and human services programs.

  • Value [8] Maintain a creative work environment
    • To maintain a work environment that encourages creativity, diversity, innovation, teamwork, accountability, continuous learning, a sense of urgency, enthusiasm, trust, celebration of achievement, and the highest ethical standards.

  • Value [9] Work as “One HHS”
    • To work as a single corporate entity with a “One HHS” approach to management.