The National Association for Healthcare Quality (NAHQ) is a professional membership association focused on advancing healthcare quality and safety. It educates and equips healthcare quality professionals and organizations with standards, training, research, and certification to improve care delivery and outcomes.
Healthcare quality and patient safety, workforce development, professional standards and competency, quality improvement, care variability reduction, data-driven benchmarking, and certification/credentialing in healthcare quality.
Primarily membership dues, certification and education program fees, event registrations, and related professional development revenue; it also offers grants and sponsored programs.
Certified Professional in Healthcare Quality (CPHQ), NAHQ Board of Directors, and healthcare organizations that partner with NAHQ on quality and workforce initiatives; prominent public-facing leadership includes CEO and Executive Director Stephanie Mercado.
non-profit professional association
