A nonprofit professional organization formed in 1980 and headquartered in
Chicago, Illinois, that supports healthcare risk managers and has 5,400 members
and 50 affiliated local chapters that represent a variety of healthcare-related
entities with clinical, legal, and financial interests. The vision of ASHRM is
to be a leader in advancing safe and trusted health care through enterprise
risk management. The ASHRM mission is to advance patient safety, reduce
uncertainty, and maximize value through management of risks across the
healthcare enterprise based upon the following four goals: (1) enterprise risk
management—facilitate effective decision-making in the healthcare industry
through the application of enterprise risk management; (2) patient
safety—advance patient safety through a value-driven approach; (3)
leadership—be recognized as an influential leader in healthcare enterprise risk
management; and (4) governance and operations.