Our team of more than 23,000 is driven by our mission to improve health in Ohio and across the world through innovation in research, education and patient care. The foundation of our new strategic plan is centered on our ambition, mission, vision and values.
We will become a leading academic medical center driving breakthrough healthcare solutions to improve people's lives.
We will improve health in Ohio and across the world through innovation in research, education and patient care.
We will push the boundaries of discovery and knowledge, solve significant health problems and deliver unparalleled care.
Inclusiveness, Determination, Empathy, Sincerity, Ownership and Innovation
A founding principle of our planning process was to actively engage faculty and staff through various means, including faculty meetings, town halls, faculty leadership forums, surveys, focus groups and strategy groups that addressed specific issues facing the medical center. The strategic planning process was led by a board oversight group which included members of the medical center's board of trustees, university leaders, including President Michael Drake, and medical center leadership.
Additionally, a team of medical center faculty and leaders was formed to help advance the planning process, discuss key strategic issues and gather insight from across the organization to ensure a comprehensive planning process. The Medical Center Board will continue to have an active role alongside medical center leaders to ensure the plan is successfully implemented.
Ohio State Wexner Medical Center has an important role in the success of the university's new strategic plan. One of the core strengths and assets of the medical center is being part of Ohio State — the largest and most comprehensive university in the nation. By being part of the university, the medical center is benefiting from an unlimited supply of innovative thought, research breakthroughs and talent resources that most health organizations do not have access to.
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To further Ohio State's aspiration, the medical center has developed a multifaceted strategic plan that advances the university's Academic Health Care goal and will continue our history of success. The six goals of the plan include:
Our people bring the medical center’s plan to life. By bringing together the right talent and the right culture to foster curiosity, collaboration, innovation and discovery, we will move the medical center forward. Initiatives include:
Research is foundational to Ohio State and our academic healthcare mission. Through our research, we are changing patient care and taking care breakthroughs to the patient bedside and to the community. Initiatives will include:
Our plan in action:
We will implement an innovative, multidisciplinary education model to educate the most diverse and sought-after health professionals in the world. To achieve this goal, initiatives will include:
We have a critical role in both meeting the most complex care needs of our community and also keeping our community and individuals healthy. This role can only be filled by a leading academic medical center such as Ohio State. Initiatives will include:
Our plan in action:
With partnerships throughout the state and nation, the medical center can leverage its tremendous resources to address Ohio’s most pressing health needs. To create healthy communities, we will:
Our plan in action:
This will require us to be innovative and open to new ideas. Leadership toward sustaining our mission will come from faculty and staff across the medical center as they innovate on how we can build upon our proven track record of operational sustainability. Strategies include:
Our plan in action:
How will we do it? Where others stop, we keep going. Where others see limitations, we see possibilities. Where others say there is no solution, we work tirelessly until we find one. We break right through obstacles, barriers, conventions, setbacks, distraction, opposition and doubt. When we stay focused and determined and we work together toward common goals, nothing can hold us back. It’s time for Ohio State to break through.
Our facilities must be able to keep up with our unceasing curiosity and ideas for innovation. But we want to aim higher than just keeping up. We want to create environments that inspire new ways of collaborating, new approaches to hurdles and new ideas to explore and evaluate.
Four areas of investment in Framework 2.0, guided and informed by the university’s strategic plan, are:
Pioneering life-altering biomedical discoveries and their translation into breakthrough healthcare solutions
Creating healthy communities by addressing Ohio's most pressing health needs
MyChart Bedside provides a way to engage patients in their medical care
Creating efficiency by cutting down on time and material waste
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