One of the region's top places to work, the Medical Center employs about 1,300 skilled healthcare professionals and support staff, and credentials more than 250 non-employed physicians in 42 specialties and subspecialties, as well as six physicians who are on our medical staff. Volunteers contribute more than 68,000 hours of service each year.

Statement

Mount Nittany Medical Center is committed to providing quality medical care in an atmosphere that reflects high standards of social, ethical and financial responsibility and will assure that those same standards are met in all contractual relationships. The Board of Trustees has established this statement of organizational values to assure that members of the Board, the Medical Center staff and the Medical Staff honor the following principles through our behaviors:

Alliances with Patients

• We will treat all patients with dignity and respect, and will accommodate individual responses to the stress of illness.
• We fully support the principles outlined in the Statement of Patient’s Rights and Responsibilities document.
• We commit to a service excellence philosophy that strives to meet or exceed patient expectations.
• All patients receive a uniform standard of care throughout the facility, regardless of social, cultural, financial, religious, racial, gender or sexual orientation factors.
• The Medical Center and Medical Staff work jointly to assure that only appropriate and effective tests, procedures and treatments are provided to patients.

Community Relations

• We will fairly and accurately represent ourselves and our capabilities to the public.
• We are committed to constant preparation for the long-term financial viability of the Medical Center through responsible utilization of resources and in support of our commitment to meet the healthcare needs of the community.
• Medical Center leadership (executives, Board of Trustees, Medical Staff) will disclose and avoid potential conflicts of interest. All other hospital staff will avoid similar conflicts of interest.
• We will maintain an open admissions policy: no patient will be refused evaluation and service based upon sex, age, race, creed, national origin, sexual orientation, infection status or the ability to pay. Transfers to other facilities will occur only when we are unable to provide needed services and only to facilities that provide an appropriate level of care, based on our assessment of the patients’ needs. Patients may also request elective transfer and an informed consent process will be followed.