Vision, Mission & Core Values
The Global Institute for Healthcare Quality & Safety (GIHQS) advances safer healthcare systems by supporting professionals, organizations, and leaders committed to healthcare quality, patient safety, high-reliability healthcare, and the responsible use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in healthcare.
Healthcare systems that are consistently safe, high-reliability, and trusted by the patients and communities they serve.
This vision reflects the future GIHQS seeks to help advance: healthcare systems that do not depend on luck, silence, or heroic recovery, but are designed for safety, trust, and reliability.
Advancing professionals. Strengthening systems.
To advance healthcare quality and patient safety by developing professionals through certification, education, and accreditation of programs that strengthen high-reliability healthcare systems and the responsible use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in healthcare.
The GIHQS values framework
GIHQS expresses its values through five foundational commitments that reinforce the institute name itself. Together, these values support ethical leadership, safer care, continuous improvement, and trusted innovation.
Global Perspective
Promoting shared learning, collaboration, and exchange across healthcare systems, disciplines, and professional communities to strengthen healthcare quality and patient safety.
Integrity
Upholding ethical, transparent, and fair practices in certification, education, accreditation, leadership, and professional conduct.
Human-Centered Care
Ensuring that patients, families, and healthcare professionals remain at the heart of safer systems, trusted care, and meaningful improvement.
Quality Excellence
Advancing evidence-based improvement, professional excellence, and high-reliability healthcare practices that strengthen outcomes and reduce preventable harm.
Safety Leadership
Championing cultures of safety, accountability, learning, and responsible innovation that help organizations prevent harm and build more reliable healthcare systems.
Towards Zero Preventable Harm
This guiding principle reflects the direction of GIHQS: advancing healthcare professionals, strengthening high-reliability healthcare systems, and supporting safer human and AI-enabled care.
