MISSION:Sterling Area Health Center will utilize teamwork and partnership with our patients to provide high quality, comprehensive primary care, dental, and behavioral health services for the entire community, with emphasis on the medically underserved.
VALUES:We are a comprehensive team including multidisciplinary health care providers, support staff, and a volunteer governing board devoted to providing high quality, cost effective, holistic health care services in a fiscally responsible manner, regardless of the patients ability to pay. We are responsive to the communitys needs and strive to reduce barriers in planning and providing prevention oriented health care. We are committed to pursue excellence in compassionate health care regardless of age, gender, or life circumstance.
The personal physician is responsible for providing for all the patients health care needs or taking responsibility for appropriately arranging care with other qualified professionals. This includes care for all stages of life; acute care; chronic care; preventive services; and end of life care.
Care is coordinated and / or integrated across all elements of the complex health care system (e.g., subspecialty care, hospitals, home health agencies, nursing homes) and the patients community (e.g., family, public and private community-based services).
Care is facilitated by registries and other information technology to assure that patients get the indicated care when and where they need and want it. And that the care is provided in a culturally and linguistically appropriate manner.
The Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) is an approach to providing comprehensive care for children, youth and adults. The PCMH is a health care setting that facilitates partnerships between individual patients and their personal physicians, and when appropriate, the patients family.
Practices advocate for their patients to support the attainment of optimal, patient-centered outcomes that are defined by a care planning process driven by a compassionate, robust partnership between physicians, patients, and the patients family.
Practices go through a voluntary recognition process by an appropriate nongovernmental entity to demonstrate that they have the capabilities to provide patient centered services consistent with the medical home model.