Integrity
Integrity: "Firm adherence to a code of especially moral or artistic values." -- Webster Dictionary.
This is one of our core values and is key to everything we do.
We trust and expect each person on our team to act in full integrity with each team member and with all patients. The quality of service we offer stems from this value.
Anyone who is dishonest in anyway can not remain on our team. This value is what defines who we are in our day to day lives.
Professor James Q. Wilson of UCLA related the following story:Several years ago, when I was serving as executive director of the Family and Church History Department, my wife, Kathy and I visited officials at the Chinese National Archives in Beijing. In one conversation we spoke of the value of history, particularly family history, in our lives here and now. One of the Chinese officials told me about a tradition of honesty that had come down through many generations in his family. It is referred to by them as “The Four Knows.” He had an ancestor who served as a government officer long ago in the days of one of the Chinese dynasties. One day the ancestor was approached for a favor and offered a bribe.
The man offering the bribe argued, “No one will know.”
My host’s ancestor replied, “I will know; you will know; the earth will know; heaven will know.”
That man’s refusal to dishonor his position has been remembered and repeated through all the generations of his descendants since. As they teach each other the Four Knows, each is motivated to maintain the family tradition of integrity. He may have earned distinction in his own time anciently, but that man’s true greatness lies in how his life has influenced his descendants ever since.