College of Health Professions
Vision
The College is recognized for its innovative leadership in education, practice, scholarship, and service to improve health and the health professions.
Mission
The College’s mission is to educate and challenge diverse students for the health professions to be leaders, innovators and lifelong learners who will positively impact local, national, and global health.
Core Values
The core values of the College of Health Professions are:
- Commitment to quality care
- Cultural competence
- Innovation
- Integrity
- Interprofessional Collaboration
- Scholarship
Communication Sciences and Disorders, MS
Misson
The mission of the graduate grogram in Communication Sciences and Disorders (CSD) is to prepare highly competent speech-language pathologists that support mastery of necessary skills for students to lead rewarding, intellectually, and civically engaged lives. This mission requires that students develop abilities in written and oral communication, critical and analytic thinking, synthesize information from various sources, evidence-based decision making, leadership, and the importance of context for understanding issues, essential in an increasingly diverse and global world. By nature, the CSD profession requires the student to embody these skills as well as perspective taking, the ability to collaborate with health professionals in various disciplines, and the ability to connect theory to practical experience. Graduates from this program will be eligible for American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) certification as well as other relevant local and state credentials upon graduation.
Lienhard School of Nursing
Vision
The Lienhard School of Nursing will lead nursing education through the advancement of evidence-based practice and scholarship in primary health care.
Mission
The Lienhard School of Nursing is an inclusive learning environment that prepares diverse nurse leaders in evidence-based, equitable, person-centered, primary health care by integrating an innovative pedagogy with interprofessional partnerships, scholarship, and practice to improve health and wellness for all persons and populations.
Core Values
- Equitable, person-centered care
- Evidence-based practice
- Primary health care
Philosophy
Informed by our rich legacy, the Lienhard School of Nursing ensures health equity by preparing diverse nurses to provide safe, high-quality, person-centered nursing care that is grounded in an evidence-based framework of primary health care.
Nutrition and Dietetics, MS
Mission
The mission of the coordinated Master of Science in Nutrition and Dietetics is to educate and challenge diverse students to become entry-level dietitian-nutritionists to serve as responsible practitioners, leaders, innovator and lifelong learners and to make positive impacts on the nutrition outcomes of the public.
Occupational Therapy, MS
Mission
To prepare competent and ethical occupational therapy practitioners who maximize clients’ quality of life and occupation engagement through technology, evidence-based, client-centered, and interprofessional practice.
Vision
To empower its graduates to become lifelong learners and influential leaders in the profession locally, nationally, and globally.
Pace University-Lenox Hill Hospital Department of Physician Assistant Studies
Vision
The Pace University-Lenox Hill Hospital Physician Assistant program will prepare lifelong learners to succeed within the rapidly changing health care landscape who are committed to becoming leaders in the PA profession and community.
Mission
The mission of the Pace University-Lenox Hill Hospital Physician Assistant program is to graduate physician assistants with the requisite knowledge and skills necessary to function in diverse settings. The program develops leaders committed to professionalism and community engagement.
Physician Assistant-Pleasantville
Philosophy
To educate a diverse student body, including veterans, in an academically rigorous program, with an emphasis on cultural sensitivity and special populations.
Mission
The mission of the Physician Assistant - Pleasantville program is to educate veterans and culturally diverse graduate students, providing an academically rigorous learning environment that promotes the intellectual, personal, and professional growth of the students. The faculty and staff will imbue these qualities and facilitate the development of a learning community that supports the training of quality physician assistants with attributes including lifelong learning, service orientation, and an emphasis on primary care. The faculty, staff and students will demonstrate the knowledge, attitudes, and understanding to function in diverse communities, populations and settings, and to treat all patients with dignity, respect, and compassion.
Vision
To foster a quality academic environment where students and faculty are stimulated to excel by an educational process that provides our post-graduate learners with the necessary academic, clinical, professional, interpersonal, and technical skills to function competently, confidently, compassionately, and efficiently as culturally sensitive primary care medical providers.