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

Conducting research analysis for the purpose of developing national healthcare standards and guidelines; developing voluntary national healthcare standards