Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857



DIRECTOR	Robert O. Valdez
Deputy Director	David Meyers

https://www.ahrq.gov/cpi/about/organization/orgchart/organizational-chart.html

The Agency posts it organization chart in Portable Document Format (PDF) for viewing and downloading.

https://www.ahrq.gov/cpi/about/organization/orgchart/organizational-chart.html

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality produces evidence to make healthcare affordable, equitable, more accessible, of a higher quality, and safer. It also works within the Department of Health and Human Services and with other partners to ensure that the evidence is understood and used.

http://www.ahrq.gov/cpi/about/profile/index.html

Sources of Information

Archived Records

The "Guide to Federal Records in the National Archives of the United States" indicates that Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality records have been assigned to record group 510.

https://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/510.html

Career Opportunities

For information on employment opportunities, visit the "Careers at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality" web page.

https://www.ahrq.gov/cpi/about/careers/index.html

In 2020, the Agency ranked 86th among 411 agency subcomponents in the Partnership for Public Service's Best Places To Work Agency Ranking.

https://bestplacestowork.org/rankings/detail/?c=HE33

Contact Information

The "Contact Us" web page has a central mailing address and phone number for contacting the agency.

https://www.ahrq.gov/contact/index.html

The "AHRQ Key Contacts" web page has email addresses and phone numbers for contacting centers and offices.

https://www.ahrq.gov/cpi/about/organization/contacts/key-contacts.html

Core Competencies

The Agency seeks to improve the lives of patients and aims to help healthcare systems and professionals deliver care that is safe and of high quality and value. The Agency accomplishes its mission by focusing on its three core competencies: data and analytics, health systems research, and practice improvement.

https://www.ahrq.gov/cpi/corecompetencies/index.html

Data

Statistical portraits of health care delivery in the United States are available on the Agency's website.

https://www.ahrq.gov/data/index.html

Federal Register

Documents that the Agency recently published in the Federal Register are accessible online.

https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/agency-for-healthcare-research-and-quality

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

The Agency posts answers to FAQs.

https://info.ahrq.gov

Most-Searched Topics

Information on the Agency's most-searched topics is organized alphabetically on the "Topics" web page.

https://www.ahrq.gov/topics/index.html

Other Websites

With the support of contracting staff, the Agency maintains additional subsites to fulfill its mission. A list of these sites and a link to a description of each site's focus are provided on the "Other AHRQ Web Sites" web page.

https://www.ahrq.gov/cpi/about/otherwebsites/index.html