Excellence
- AAPA sets a high standard of performance and demonstrates competence in its actions and support of PAs.
- AAPA demonstrates innovation and vision as it enhances the visibility and value of the profession, while supporting and enabling PAs and their patient-centered focus.
- AAPA sets a high standard of performance for its staff and promotes the same as a standard for the profession.
- In all of its activities, AAPA acts with integrity and civility with its members, business partners, and others.
- AAPA, by its example, encourages all PAs to adhere to the highest standards of professional behavior.
- AAPA is recognized by PAs and the health care community broadly as the primary authority on issues related to the utilization and practice of PAs.
- AAPA promotes its members as experts in patient care, providers of innovative solutions to health care challenges, and knowledgeable members of the patient-centered health care team.
- AAPA is at the forefront of critical and innovative thinking in its efforts to increase patient access to quality health care services.
- AAPA considers and moves forward creatively to advance the profession and improve health care.
- AAPA promotes and positions the PA profession to maximize its influence on health care policy, thus securing the future of the profession.
- AAPA supports continuous quality improvement.
- AAPA actively attracts recruits and retains member leaders and staff of different backgrounds and varying perspectives to ensure a diverse pool of qualified applicants when calling for leadership candidates.
- AAPA’s paramount concern is to understand, appreciate, and respond to the unique needs and concerns of its members.
- AAPA always remembers that its sole reason for being is to serve its members and to support their efforts to serve their patients.
- AAPA uses its influence to gain recognition for the profession and for its members.
