In health care, organizational values are explicitly or implicitly focused on outcomes for patients and families. One reason for this is because providing care for patients and families is the reason that health care organizations exist. Another reason for the emphasis on patients and families is that they are understood to be the more vulnerable parties in health care interactions, given both imbalances in power and knowledge and the ways in which needing health care generates vulnerability, and to compensate for this their needs are given greater weight.