Welcome to the ACH Member Center!

Thank you for your consideration or continued membership with the Academy of Communication in Healthcare.

ACH is the professional home for all those who are committed to improving communication and relationships in healthcare. ACH accomplishes this through:

• Welcoming researchers, educators, clinicians, patients, patient advocates, and all members of the healthcare team.
• Providing opportunities for collaboration, support and personal and professional development.
• Identifying strengths, resources and needs of patients, their family members and healthcare professionals, both as unique individuals and in relationship to one another. 
• Developing skills that integrate biological, psychological 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 all members of the health care team.
• Incorporating core values of respect, empathy and genuineness in human relationships and the importance of self-awareness in all activities.

For over 40 years, the Academy of Communication in Healthcare (ACH) has been at the forefront of research and teaching relationship-centered healthcare communication. If you are looking for ways to improve patient safety, interdisciplinary teamwork, patient satisfaction scores, or just want to develop your individual communication skills, ACH can help.