Family Health and Systems Management Section

Vision of Family Health and Systems Management

Nurture an environment where everyone is empowered to make their own unique contribution toward meeting the goal of a healthier Delaware .

Mission of Family Health and Systems Management

The mission of Family Health and Systems Management (FHSM) is to improve the health of families and provide leadership to communities in the development of health systems. FHSM accomplishes its mission by:

• Developing, coordinating and evaluating programs and initiatives to improve the health of women, infants, children, adolescents and those with special health care needs.
• Monitoring health status through newborn screening (metabolic disorders and hearing), birth defects and autism registries.
• Eliminating disparities in maternal and child health outcomes, including infant mortality.
• Applying epidemiology and research to improve delivery of quality health care to women, children and families.
• Enhancing reproductive health and ensuring access to family planning services.
• Ensuring access to adolescent health care services through School-Based Health Centers and implementing programs to reduce teen pregnancy.
• Translating evidence into practice to improve early childhood comprehensive systems of care.
• Ensuring appropriate access to affordable, quality care by focusing on the equitable distribution of health care resources, primary care services, the unique needs of rural health, health care provider shortages, and health-related data and information.
• Consistently and continually exceeding the needs of those we serve, providing top quality in all we produce.

Values

• Communication
• Respect and Fairness
• Honesty and Integrity
• Scientific Merit
• Teamwork
• Accountability
• Maintaining an Opportunity to Succeed through Workforce Development
• Maintaining an Opportunity to Succeed through Good Supervision
• Maintaining an Opportunity to Succeed through Good Management
• Quality
• Adapting to Change
• Customer Focus