Our goals include:

• Assuring the best social work leadership in health care systems
• Incorporating the core values of social work into the health care environment
• Fostering and maintaining the best social work practice
• Promoting standards and ethics for the delivery of social work in health care

Our members value:

• Self-determination: in making informed decisions.
• Access: to necessary and optimal health srvices for all.
• Advocacy: to advance change that enhances the quality of life.
• Diversity: by respecting multiple value systems.
• Collaboration: with individuals, professions, and organizations to achieve common goals.
• Integrity: in our professional practice.
• Leadership: in achieving professional, organizational and community goals.