Mission
The mission of the Center for Health System Pharmacy Leadership is to enhance the effectiveness of pharmacy leaders in developing, managing, and continuously improving the medication-use process to improve the health and well-being of patients and communities. (See the Center's suggested Continuum of Learning for health-system pharmacists.) 

The Center's Focus
• To assure that pharmacy leaders have the knowledge necessary to proactively influence the advancement of the medication-use process by providing competency-based education opportunities.   
• To provide leadership development programs for students, residents and new practitioners that promote the important role of the pharmacist as a change agent and a leader in patient care.
• To integrate into health-system leadership decision-making the critical role for pharmacists as active participants in achieving organizational objectives.
• To conduct research on effective pharmacy management and leadership in achieving the objectives of hospitals and health systems, as well as improving community disease prevention and health promotion efforts.
• To explore the purpose and value of a credential for hospital and health-system pharmacy leaders that recognizes competencies to direct the medication-use system enterprise and to promote safety and cost-effective medication outcomes.