Our mission is inter-related with the hospital’s mission to provide education, research and service to residents of Missouri with an emphasis on the needs of rural Missouri. We are committed to providing the finest up-to-date technology and respiratory care to adult, pediatric and neonate patients. By working together as an integral part of the health care team under a physician’s direction, our staff assist in treatment, management, and care of people with respiratory diseases and breathing disorders. We assure this high level of treatment and endeavor to reach optimal outcomes by adhering to the following:

• Quality Assurance
• Partnership with our “Health Care Team”
• Development, Implementation and support of care standards
• Clinical and Community Education
• Research
• State of the Art Technology

Our values are

• Quality
• Efficiency
• Caring Attitude
• Participation

We strive to incorporate all of these values into our mission to serve the public as leaders in our profession.