promoting public awareness of the need for national healthcare standards for public health and safety initiatives; association services, namely, promoting public and private healthcare entities by advocating policy toward the institution of national healthcare organization management standards and guidelines; promoting the interests, goals, and objectives of healthcare entities through programs, publications, conformity assessments and communications in the field of healthcare organization management 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 organization management standards

Publishing national healthcare standards and related technical documents being articles and scientific papers

conducting research analysis for the purpose of developing national healthcare organization management standards and guidelines; developing voluntary national healthcare organization management standards; evaluation services rendered to hospitals and other health care entities with a view to issuance of domestic and international certificates of accreditation, namely, surveying and evaluating the structure, process and outcome characteristics of hospitals and other health care entities to determine the conformity with certain prescribed national healthcare organization management standards