Our patient care mission encompasses serving as an accessible, high-quality, safety-focused, comprehensive care provider for all the people of Bernalillo County, and providing specialized services for people across the state. Our education mission focuses on creating a patient care environment that supports the educational programs of the UNM Health Sciences Center professional schools. Our research mission focuses on the application of new biomedical knowledge, translated to innovative patient care programs and models of health care delivery, leading to health status improvement for New Mexico. UNMH will be the leader in improving New Mexico's health outcomes through our academic specialty programs and our community-responsive, culturally competent, patient care, education and clinical research programs. We aspire to be one of the nation's leading university hospitals that captures the synergy in being both an excellent academic institution and an innovative, community-oriented public teaching hospital. UNMH will set the standard for excellence in quality and patient safety in public teaching hospitals. Our core values emphasize: A culture of shared expectations regarding integrity, accountability and decisiveness in commitment to excellence. Compassion and respect in our interaction with students, patients and colleagues. Diversity in people and thinking. Effective utilization of our resources. Advancement of our institutional mission while supporting professional and personal growth.