Mission:ACH is the professional home for researchers, educators, practitioners, and patients committed to improving communication and relationships in healthcare. It is a home that provides opportunities for collaboration, support, and personal and professional development.ACH accomplishes this through:- Focusing on strengths, resources and needs of patients, clinicians and other professionals - both as unique individuals and in relationships to one another.- Developing skills that integrate biological, psychosocial and social domains. -Applying existing scholarship from multiple disciplines and developing new knowledge through research.- Promoting collaborative relationships between clinicians and patients, teachers and learners, and other involved professionals.- Incorporating core values of respect, empathy and genuineness in human relationships and the importance of self-awareness in all activities.Vision:A health care system where all patients, providers, and trainees feel valued, are treated equitably with respect, compassion, understanding, and are actively engaged in healthcare processes and decisions.