Healing all people with compassion, faith and excellence.

Values
Roper St. Francis Healthcare's values form a fundamental part of the ethical standards provided by its founding sponsors as a guide to carrying out its mission. These values are:

Integrity:   We strive to be honest and forthright, upholding the highest ethical standards.

Compassion:    We care about the sick and those for whom medical care is out of reach or unaffordable.

Stewardship:    We strive to meet community needs and exercise great care of the resources entrusted to us.

Respect:    We recognize the worth, quality, diversity and importance of each other and of those we serve.

Quality:    We work together to deliver excellent care to our patients and seek to be the best in all we do.

Innovation:    We strive to be on the cutting edge of new and beneficial ways to care for our patients, prevent illness and deliver all our services.

Justice:    We treat each other, our patients and others with whom we work with fairness and advocate for equitable public health policies.

Growth:    We work to broaden the range of our services to give added strength the Roper St. Francis Healthcare by establishing and maintaining strategic relationships with physicians and other community-based organizations.

Illness is usually regarded as a crisis by the patient and family, especially when recovery is a lengthy process or the outcome is in doubt. Chaplains are often able to help people reflect on their feelings and concerns in a way that enables them to move through their fear and anxiety to a point of enhanced spiritual and emotional stability. Spiritual care by the chaplain may also take the form of prayer, reading of scripture or other religious acts, according to the patient's or family's expressed need. A key element in effective spiritual care is helping people identify and get in touch with their own resources of spiritual support. That may involve facilitating visits by the patient's own community clergy. The Department also arranges for volunteers, who are Catholic Lay Extraordinary Ministers of the Eucharist from local parishes, to bring Holy Communion to Catholic patients throughout the week and on weekends.