Associated Medical Services Healthcare

**The AMS Healthcare Vision Endures** AMS Healthcare is a Canadian charitable organization that was created 85 years ago to catalyze change in healthcare. We have impacted healthcare through the introduction of new ideas into the system, particularly focused on the responsibility of providers and healthcare organizations to meet emerging societal needs. Since 2012, AMS Healthcare has focused its vision on the concept of compassionate care: supporting healthcare providers, educators, policy makers and system leaders in anticipating, teaching, and instilling a foundation of compassion at the heart of our health system. This is based on the premise that health professionals provide the best care when they can balance human compassion and technical expertise. Our sweet spot is building leaders committed to compassion in care. Our strength is developing health system leadership – leadership grounded in compassionate care. We should also not lose sight of the learnings afforded by lessons of the past – this was affirmed for all in the collective response to COVID. **The vision of AMS Healthcare is:** > Compassionate, quality healthcare for all Canadians, in a system advanced by technology, innovation, and a rich understanding of our healthcare history. The health system has continued to change over AMS Healthcare’s history, but the relevance of this vision has endured. Today, emerging technologies are impacting every aspect of how care is planned, delivered, and received. In particular, the extremely rapid evolution of artificial intelligence (AI) challenges the concept of compassionate, person-to-person centred care. Digital health and AI have brought distinct challenges – as well as exciting opportunities – to our mission of ensuring that healthcare is grounded in compassion. **The AMS Healthcare Mission Moving Forward** Over the years AMS Healthcare has built up a broad and successful continuum of self-funded granting programs and other offerings in support of its mission: > To advance a compassionate healthcare system by investing in leaders, convening stakeholders, supporting research and funding innovative projects. Our work supports and learns from our rich history of healthcare. The system within which AMS Healthcare operates and serves – and the challenges and opportunities this represents – is immense in both breadth and depth. We must focus for impact on activities that add value to the healthcare system. **Moving forward into its next strategic phase, AMS Healthcare will focus on its core strength:** > Developing health system leaders. Leaders grounded in compassionate care. Leaders able to recognize and harness the opportunities of today’s health system transformation to ensure compassion with the benefits of technology. AMS Healthcare will focus on achieving measurable impact and value to the healthcare system by using its position, reputation, networks, and resources to focus on building health leadership able to excel in a rapidly evolving system of care. **Quintuple Aim-Based Impact and Value** The Quintuple Aim continues to be the gold standard in measuring quality in healthcare internationally, and here in Canada. This framework will be used by AMS Healthcare to ensure our efforts are aligned with this common understanding of system value and impact. The Quintuple Aim provides a lens for AMS Healthcare to make programmatic and partnership choices: Does the work align with one or more of the aims? Will visible leadership and leadership development make a difference in this area? **In support of aim-based impact, AMS Healthcare will set expectations and establish measurement criteria and accountabilities across all of its programs and services.** **1\. Track our progress** We will hold ourselves accountable for what we do and how we do it by measuring inputs, activities and outputs of our work and investments. This includes planned program reviews in priority areas (History of Healthcare, Compassion/AI.) **2\. Inform our strategies** We will use data from tracking our progress, as well as any additional evidence or research to measure our impact, adjust course and understand how and why we have succeeded or failed. **3\. Contribute to the field** We will engage in knowledge mobilization and collaborate with partners to further the mission of AMS Healthcare.