Our Mission and Values
Catherine’s Health Center is a 501(c)(3) non-profit Federally Qualified Health Center. We provide access to high quality, affordable and compassionate health care for the West Michigan community.
In 1996, we began as a volunteer-run clinic in the Creston neighborhood of Grand Rapids. Since then, we have expanded to provide medical, dental, and behavioral health care at several locations around Kent County, including community health centers, school-based health centers, and place-based sites to provide health care to the unhoused. While a lot has changed throughout the years, our commitment to exceptional health care for all has never wavered.
Our Mission
Catherine’s Health Center provides access to high quality, affordable, and compassionate health care to ALL.
Our Vision
A thriving community free of health inequities.
Our Values
Excellence:
- We practice a growth mindset that is solutions and improvement focused. We provide exceptional, patient-centered care and access to the communities we serve. We celebrate wins every day.
Compassion:
- Empathy is an understanding of our shared humanity, and humility is the awareness that we can never be competent in someone else’s experiences; compassion is how we act in service to others through empathy and humility. We ask, “What Matters to You?”
Community:
- We achieve community through trusting relationships with colleagues, patients, and partners. Building and creating community in every action we take, decision we make, and supporting those around us.
Accountability:
- We are accountable to each other and our communities by investing in our teams, effectively communicating, meeting our goals, and balancing quality with financial sustainability. We assume best intentions.
