Our Mission
Kansas Health Science University is committed to providing exceptional programs that produce forward-thinking, empathetic health care leaders who are dedicated to innovation, research, and finding collective solutions to advance underserved communities.
Our Vision
To positively transform communities through directly addressing the disparity in access to healthcare for Kansas and beyond.
Our Values
- Value differences and seek to understand before being understood.
- Create a positive culture to safeguard equity, inclusion, dignity, and respect for all.
- Strive to understand what other people are experiencing and use that understanding to solve problems and to drive positive change.
- Act and lead in a manner that reflects inclusiveness, dignity, and respect for others.
- Build a safe and inclusive environment that promotes diversity of ideas and people.
- Solicit, seek, embrace, and adopt diverse thoughts and opinions.
- Create a learning culture that promotes honesty, sincerity, reflection, awareness, and inquiry.
- Overall health and well-being of a community, to which we are a part, is paramount.
- Serve communities in which we work to the best of our ability.
- Long-term community relations based on trust and promised action is essential.
- Act with civility.
- Treat people the way that you would want to be treated.
- Approach difficult situations with respect and open-mindedness.
- Build strong and healthy relationships with colleagues.
- Be self-aware and admit mistakes.
- Provide first-class stakeholder experience to all with whom you interact.
- Be responsible and do what you say you are going to do.
- Act with honor and truthfulness.
- Adhere to high standards of professionalism.
- Consistently demonstrate ethical behavior in all interactions with employees, students, and external constituents.
- Raise issues of concern in good faith.
- Act as ambassadors at all times to ensure the positive reputation of the organization, its employees, and students.
- Will embrace change when it holds the promise of a better future.
- Work to create forward-thinking solutions.
- Find ways to continuously improve what you are doing.
- Identify and develop impactful technologies that improve the health care environment as well as student, learning, patient, and community outcomes.
- Engage in quick experiments of evidence-based discovery that prove or disprove an outcome. Learn quickly and pivot to a new change in direction based on outcome.
- Experiments that disprove a hypothesis should not be seen as failures.
- Create a learning culture that promotes honesty, sincerity, reflection, awareness, and inquiry.
- Create a culture of community and connectedness, as that is vital to the health and well-being of all.
- Collaborate with fellow colleagues with the goal of the team achieving success together.
- Recognize the value in everyone with whom you interact and focus on improving the day for each person you encounter.
- Listen to one another with respect.
- Focus on shared goals and outcomes, not individual achievement.
- Be accountable to one another and take personal responsibility for your part in a project or task.
- Be inquisitive, share knowledge, seek input, and invite alternative opinions and hypotheses with the goal of improving product or outcomes.
- Take a genuine interest in all others within and related to the organization.
- Excellence is paramount and we strive to evaluate, respond, adapt, and seek to improve so as to best impact our community.
- Strive to achieve the best outcomes in every detail and situation.
- Create a culture of responsibility and seek continuous quality improvement in all that you do.
- Provide first-class service to all stakeholders.
- Utilize innovation, data, and reflection to continuously improve what you are doing.