Six Aims for Improving Healthcare Organizations

All inaugural and future programs and funding initiatives will be framed by the Institute of Medicine's Six Aims for Improving Healthcare Organizations: patient safety, effectiveness, patient-centeredness, timeliness, efficiency, and equitability. This framework provides a powerful, yet succinct way to structure the work conducted by the Center. Equally important, this provides a sustained focus, making innovation central to our work coupled with the expectation that deliverables are based on translating this innovation to our valued nurses and consumers.

Institute of Medicine Report, 2001. Crossing the Quality Chasm. Washington, DC: National Academies Press