St. Barnabas Hospital is dedicated to providing compassionate, comprehensive health care to the people of the Bronx community, assuring the sick, the injured and disabled complete and open access to the highest quality of care, regardless of age, sex, sexual preference, race, color, nationality, creed, or ability to pay. 

In addition, St. Barnabas Hospital is guided by these principles:

1. St. Barnabas Hospital services are determined largely by the health care needs and priorities of the communities it serves.  Within the restrictions and accommodations demanded by law, regulation, technology and available resources, St. Barnabas Hospital continues to develop and expand its medical and human services network throughout the Bronx.

2. St. Barnabas Hospital is alert to opportunities to expand its activities to meet the needs of people in its service area who are presently underserved and who would benefit from the Hospital's resources and programs.  The Hospital, wherever appropriate, cooperates with other hospitals and agencies in meeting these needs.

3. St. Barnabas strives to serve as an active member of the community.  It provides support to the local economy as a health resource and contributes to the social and cultural life of the community.  St. Barnabas strives to serve as a responsible and concerned employer by providing a suitable work environment.  As a corporate member of the community, it seeks to contribute its share to community development and maintenance of the environment consonant with its resources and in keeping with its mission.

4. St. Barnabas Hospital works closely with existing community organizations in the promotion of good health of persons by providing: education regarding physical and mental health; screening and preventive health programs that will detect the early stages of unhealthy conditions or diseases; and make available hospital staff to the community for educational programs.

5. St. Barnabas Hospital responds to the growing demand for ambulatory care programs, particularly for comprehensive and continuous primary care, and a comprehensive emergency care system.  The Hospital's traditional focus on primary care clinics will continue to evolve into comprehensive case managed ambulatory group practices by creating new models of primary care and physician recruitment in response to changing Federal and State laws and regulations.

6. Throughout its evolution, the St. Barnabas tradition of complete and open access to the sick, injured, disabled and infirm, regardless of age, sex, sexual preference, race, color, creed, nationality and economic status, remains its chief operating principle.

St. Barnabas Hospital is a teaching campus for the New York College of Osteopathic Medicine.