CMS Mission, Vision, and Core Values (continued)

The core values of CMS serve as guiding principles for how you should approach accomplishing your daily tasks and responsibilities. By demonstrating the Agency's core values through your actions and behavior, you will help CMS to continually improve its programs and services to beneficiaries.

The CMS core values are:

• Public Service
• Integrity
• Accountability
• Excellence
• Respect

Click each underlined item for a description of that core value.

Think about a project or task you have been, or may be, assigned. How will your words and actions demonstrate the CMS core values?