Mission, Vision, and Values

Mission:
CareLink of Northwest Georgia serves as a community health and wellness clinic providing low cost, high
quality medical care and support resources to those who are in need.

Vision:
CareLink of Northwest Georgia is a comprehensive and sustainable community resource center with the
goal of providing long-term health and wellness services leading to healthier lives, healthier families and
thus, a healthier community.

Strengthening Individuals → Healthier Families → Community Health

Values:

Integrity and Ethics – Operating at the very highest levels of medical, administrative,
operational, legal and ethical conduct while nurturing a culture of purposeful governance to
oversee this conduct;

Financial Responsibility – Being an excellent steward of community resources by maximizing the
percentage of annual revenues spent on programs while minimizing expenses spent on
administrative costs;

Honesty and Transparency – Having all activities conducted in an honest and open manner,
including full cooperation with any nonprofit ‘watch dog’ agencies;

Quality – Having all programs, services, resources, operational processes and human resources
strive for the highest standards of excellence;

Results-Oriented – Producing the best positive results as determined by program evaluations for
those we serve and for those who donate funds;

Sustainability and Comprehensiveness – Developing all organizational programming using long-
term strategic planning together with long-term maintenance, while taking into account
environmental, economic and social dimensions to ensure that program benefits are maximized;

Impartiality – Making no discrimination as to nationality, ethnicity, age, gender, religious beliefs,
socio-economic status or political opinions;

Voluntary Service and Independence – Ensuring that all members of the Board of Directors,
organization staff and volunteers maintain the Mission of the nonprofit organization by avoiding
conflicts of interest, external influences or personal issues.

This Policy is adopted this 27 th day of February, 2020 at a Board of Directors Meeting where a
quorum of the Board was present and will become effective immediately.
(Revised 02/19/2020)