The constant need for purposeful change

✍ Scribed by Peggy Martin

• Publisher: Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 189 KB
• Volume: 26
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1074-4797
• DOI: 10.1002/jhrm.5600260102

✦ Synopsis

W elcome to the start of ASHRM's next 25 years! This is my first President's Message and there is so much to say. Let me start with my thanks to you for giving me this opportunity to serve you at this exciting and crucial time in our history.

At our Annual Meeting in October, we celebrated the amazing growth of our organization and our profession. As AHA President Dick Davidson said when he addressed the meeting by video, "Twenty-five years of making a positive difference in health care is significant." Perhaps many of us who were there "in the beginning" could not have predicted where or what the profession or the organization or the members would look like in 25 years.

But we knew the mission then and it has not changed:

To advance safe and trusted patient centered health care delivery, ASHRM promotes proactive and innovative management of organization-wide risk.

Using that mission and the results of the membership and chapter surveys as our guide, the board met last August to develop the 2006-2008 strategic plan. Within our three categories of strategic goals (professional and leadership development; advocacy and chapter representation; and organizational development), we created an aggressive work plan for 2006. As part of the work plan, we developed metrics to evaluate our progress. You have read about some of those plans in the January-February Forum newsletter and will hear much more as the year goes on.