Our Mission

CHKD Health System’s new mission statement – Health, Healing, and Hope for All Children – defines CHKD’s goals for our patients, the expectations our team members hold for themselves, and the experience we pledge to provide to our patients and their families.

Each carefully selected word in our mission represents a pillar of our care. Health speaks to primary care, wellness, preventive care, and the state of being that we wish all children to attain. Healing reflects the caring aspects of the work we undertake, encompassing our goal to keep children well and to restore them to good health through surgical and specialty care, diagnostics and treatment, research, and therapies and interventions. Hope embraces the heart of how CHKD views our promise for the future of the children and families we care for. Even the most tragic situations afford an opportunity to generate healing and hope out of the darkest of moments. And finally, for All Children demonstrates our commitment to care for every child who needs us, while respecting their individual needs and providing them the dignity they deserve regardless of their circumstances. We are health. We are healing. We are hope. We are CHKD.

The opening of Children’s Pavilion is a giant step forward on our transformational journey to build a brighter future and provide health, healing, and hope for all children.