Mission Statement
Preamble
The common goal of all staff members in the hospital is to help people suffering from diseases. Each work should serve this purpose. All common efforts needed for that are based on the idea of a free, developing and self-determining personality.
Our goal is to capture individuality of the patient in its mental, spiritual and physical dimensions and their interaction.
May the following motto serve the medical, therapeutic and nursing work:
Support diseased people so that they can
- realise their individual possibilities
- strengthen their own powers contributing to healing
- cope with their own diseased body and spirit
- get new opportunities for self-realisation from their fate and environment
1. Following basic needs of patients guide our actions:
(1) Trust of patients into competence and personality of people who care for them and the high quality of services that we offer is our most important obligation. We commit to it, as we continuously develop professionally and personally.
(2) We pay attention to the wish of each patient to be accepted with his personal thinking, feeling and will. The patients have different cultural, religious, social and political values, which we recognise and want to consider in our actions.
(3) Many people perceive disease as threat and are accompanied by fear during their admission to the hospital. Therefore, we try our best, to understand and support our patients in overcoming fear, to give them information about their disease and possibilities of therapy, in order to enhance their competence to judge.
(4) When making diagnosis and planning treatment, we consider the biographic situation, spiritual needs of the patient and striving of a person for a constant development.
2. Our actions are based on following ideas, values and principles:
(1) In the Hospital Havelhoehe the three dimensions of spirit, soul and body are equally considered in diagnostics and therapy. We offer medicine according to the most up-to-date scientific approaches in the sense of anthroposophically enhanced art of healing.
(2) The comprehensive understanding of illness of the therapeutic team makes it possible to support the patient on his path of development while coping with his illness.
(3) The sick person is involved into the process of making a diagnosis, treatment and nursing as a mature and responsible partner. Therefore, we support conscious cooperation of patients in understanding his disease as well as in the healing process. Healing a disease leads to new experiences and can enable patients to get new insights and a new level of consciousness.
(4) Fostering development of a comprehensive self-consciousness is an integral part of our daily work with our patients as well as with external patients in our social and economic environment.
(5) The Hospital Havelhoehe strives for cooperation and networking with other institutions of stationary, ambulant and complementary patient care. The concrete cooperation in health care, political and social committees also serve this purpose.
3. We organise our cooperation according to following principles
(1) Ideas, principles and values, that govern our work and that are based on anthroposophically enhanced art of healing should undergo a continuous development in critical reflection. Hence, we can put into our daily practice the quality of our work that we have promised to our patients.
(2) Professional training as well as personal development is the most important condition/prerequisites for a high quality of performance, which we can guarantee to our patients. Therefore, our staff members should get a comprehensive support.
(3) Recognising the patient as a mature partner implies that the staff members of Hospital Havelhoehe develop and maintain work forms, in which they cooperate as mature partners themselves. For this purpose, they should be able to actively and responsibly participate in co-designing our therapeutic community through a close participation in internal consultation and decision processes.
(4) So that we can together continuously improve our services, open work forms, in which professional expertise of individual professional groups are mutually recognised and can be considered any time regardless of hierarchical position, are maintained.
(5) The Hospital Havelhoehe sees itself deliberately as a part of society, which is open to discussion. A possible community involvement creates a framework for necessary, timely developments in the hospital and makes it possible to influence social processes. The Hospital Havelhoehe is looking for a conversation and for cooperation with political, religious and social groups. In general, we commit to lead the way in/for development of new, human –oriented structures in health care.
