CKHS is a community-focused health care system that delivers patient-centered, quality care in an efficient, cost-effective, and caring manner, meeting the health needs demonstrated by our community.

Our vision is to be a system that:

• Commits to its academic mission to educate both current and future clinicians and caregivers.
• Explores and implements new technologies for delivering care, and embraces legitimate complementary forms of care in response to changing consumer demand.
• Fosters leaders who take up the challenges of advocacy and innovation on the local and national levels.
• Constantly strives to build partnerships within our community to meet the emotional, physical, and spiritual needs of those we serve.
• Creates an environment where each board member, employee, physician, and volunteer uses his or her creativity, learning, and skills to promote the health and wellbeing of our patients, their families and communities, and each other.
• Accepts responsibility for being the steward of community health resources and conducts its affairs in a manner that preserves and enhances the availability of appropriate services for future generations.