"Teamwork with commitment to excellence and compassion"
Our Mission
"To professionally render advanced life support emergency and non emergency treatment and transportation to the people who live in, work and visit Adair County and North Eastern Missouri in addition to providing professional and volunteer staff development along with general public education on health care issues."
The
Adair County Ambulance District “CARES”
by adhering to the following values:
We
are committed to responding to the needs of persons with illness and injury in
our community with care, kindness, empathy and compassion, utilizing effective
principles and practices of patient care, and we strive for excellence through
ongoing evaluation and improvement.
We
are responsible for our actions, both positive and negative.
We
recognize the dignity of others and respect them as people by communicating with
everyone in a respectful manner and upholding the principles of honesty,
integrity, openness and good faith.
We
serve with honesty, loyalty and dedication helping one another and ourselves to
be the best we can be professionally and personally.
We
practice teamwork through communication and cooperation to achieve common
goals creating a healing environment of quality care and education regardless
of a patient’s ability to pay, race, color, national origin, ancestry,
religion, gender, age, disability, political belief, military service, sexual
orientation, marital status or any other protected class or characteristic.