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  • Our Identity

    HSN is an Academic Health Sciences Centre that provides exceptional healthcare services, supports a welcoming and patient centred teaching environment, and through research, creates and transfers knowledge that improves the care and health outcomes for all people of Northern Ontario. We are a safe and welcoming place for all people. The services we provide in Northeastern Ontario cover an area of approximately 400,000 square kilometers and serves 557,200 people. We accomplish this through partnerships with hospitals, healthcare providers, community organizations, and patients and family members across the North. The population landscape is changing and the teams and partners we work with enable us to create healthcare experiences that support the population health needs of Northeastern Ontario across the lifespan. This includes the needs of Indigenous, Francophone, Black, People of Colour, 2SLGBTQIA+, older adults, pediatrics, differently abled people, equity deserving and other marginalized groups. We believe in fostering an environment of equity, diversity and inclusion for all.

  • Our Mission

  • Our Vision

  • Our Values: Remaining steadfast to our five core values.

  • Respect - Showing genuine appreciation for each person’s dignity, strengths, differences, qualities, values and needs.

  • Compassion - Demonstrating empathy and kindness in response to the needs of others.

  • Quality - Providing services that are safe, effective, people-centred, timely, efficient, equitable, and inclusive.

  • Transparency - Sharing information that is timely and factual.

  • Accountability - Taking responsibility for our actions, behaviours and decisions.

Key Goal 1 - Providing Quality People-Centred Care

As our core purpose, HSN’s dedicated teams and partners work together to provide quality people-driven care.

Our Commitment: We are committed to strengthening partnerships with patients and families, care teams, and community partners to deliver quality people-driven care in a safe, secure environment.

Together, we will:

Key Goal 2 - Empowering Human Potential

We empower people to do things differently and support imaginative ways of solving problems, researching and teaching to improve our delivery of care.

Our Commitment: We commit to creating an equitable, inclusive, innovative and empowering culture that enables collaborative decision-making, promotes a sense of belonging, participation, and maintains a safe and respectful environment.

Together, we will:

Key Goal 3 - Advancing Equity through Social Accountability

Advancing equity through social accountability addresses inequities in healthcare and promotes an inclusive environment free of discrimination and racism, for all.

Our Commitment: We are committed to advancing social accountability by providing ongoing training, open dialogue, and adapting our policies and procedures to reflect inclusivity, diversity, equity, accessibility and anti-racism.

Together, we will:

Key Goal 4 - Achieving Excellence through Education and Research

Research, teaching and exceptional care are the three elements that make us an Academic Health Sciences Centre.

Our Commitment: We are committed to fostering a culture of exceptional care, research, and teaching to fulfill our academic mission.

Together, we will:

Key Goal 5 - Strengthening Organizational Sustainability

A strong healthcare system that embraces innovation, fiscal responsibility, and the natural environment has a positive impact on the region, the people it serves and the planet.

Our Commitment: We are committed to being fiscally responsible, embracing secure digital innovation and reducing our impacts to the natural environment.

Together, we will: