AMERICAN HEALTHCARE STANDARDS INSTITUTE

promoting public awareness of the need for national healthcare standards for public health and safety initiatives; conducting research analysis for the purpose of developing national healthcare standards and guidelines; association services, namely, promoting public and private healthcare organizations by advocating policy toward the institution of national healthcare standards and guidelines; promoting the interests, goals, and objectives of healthcare organizations through programs, publications, and communications in the field of healthcare standards and guidelines; promoting public awareness of the importance and need for national standards by providing a website featuring information that relates to the importance and need for healthcare standards; developing and publishing national healthcare standards and related technical documents as the designated American Standards Developer for the American National Standards Institute