The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center's Strategic Plan

TALENT AND CULTURE

Our goal is to foster an environment to attract, develop and retain a diverse and inclusive team of people committed to creating a culture of innovation, collaboration and impact

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. Our efforts will focus on these strategies:

• Develop a 5-year enterprise-wide, analytics-driven, talent needs and gap analysis
• Develop an organizational culture that reflects the values of Wexner Medical Center and inspires our workforce.
• Develop a workforce that is representative of our community and embraces inclusion, equity and diversity.
• Design and implement a total rewards package that reflects the unique work and value of Wexner Medical Center faculty and staff.
• Increase engagement and retention of faculty and staff through talent development, defined career pathways, and clear promotion and tenure policies.
• Design and implement a high-touch, high-value, data-driven recruitment process that attracts diverse, world-class talent.

   

RESEARCH

Our goal is to pioneer life-altering biomedical discoveries and their translation into breakthrough health care solutions

Research is foundational to Ohio State and our academic health care mission. Through our research, we are changing patient care and taking care breakthroughs to the patient bedside and to the community. Our efforts will focus on:

• Increasing the quantity and quality of inter-disciplinary biomedical research space through building new and repurposing existing space.
• Building recognized strength in targeted scientific fields across the health sciences.
• Investing in infrastructure that enables and supports a broad and diversified scientific portfolio.
• Building strategic partnerships and reinvent health commercialization to enhance the research portfolio and improve technology transfer outcomes.

Our plan in action:

• Find out how our researchers are accelerating innovation by slowing the decline of patients with Alzheimer's disease.

EDUCATION

Ohio State must continue to push the boundaries of health professional education, to create the next generation of clinicians and leaders

We will implement an innovative, interprofessional education model to educate the most diverse and sought-after health professionals in the world. Our efforts will focus on these strategies:

• Advance Ohio State’s education mission utilizing innovations that will enable Ohio State to serve as a national leader in delivering excellence in health science education.
• Create a 21st century learner-centered environment through the advancement of interprofessional education among the health sciences colleges through curriculum, programmatic innovations, and health sciences facilities.
• Become a national leader among peers in embracing and advancing inclusive excellence and cultural competencies among faculty, staff and students.
• Outperform peers and serve as a national model on developing pathways that promote access and innovative models to ensure affordability.
• Become a top college/school that leverages technology to provide excellence in teaching and learning.

HEALTH AND WELLBEING

Improve health in our communities through innovative and comprehensive delivery and engagement models

Ohio State will improve health in our communities through innovative and comprehensive delivery and engagement models. 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. Our efforts will focus on:

• Delivering superior quality, safety, and accessibility for patients, referring providers and payers.
• Growing tertiary and quaternary care through targeted service line expansion and differentiation.
• Delivering cost-effective, person-centered care at the right time in the right place.
• Positioning Ohio State to be the national benchmark for healthcare in the digital era.
• Creating and strengthening partnerships to solve complex community health problems and improve statewide care.
• Improving the health of the community through targeted focus on social determinants of health, health equity and population/public health.

RESOURCE STEWARDSHIP

To achieve our ambition and our goals, we must be a responsible steward of all resources to enable delivery of high quality, cost effective care and investments in all aspects of our mission

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. Our efforts will focus on these strategies:

• Achieve revenue growth targets by successfully implementing ambulatory growth plans, continuing market share growth and enhancing the revenue cycle to achieve revenue growth targets.
• Develop new sources of revenue across the care continuum and from new business ventures.
• Focus on increasing philanthropic support to further our mission, with a focus on meeting capital commitments and expanding our national profile.
• Future-proof the organization by implementing an aligned strategy around value-based care and alternative payment models.

DRIVING BREAKTHROUGH SOLUTIONS

The Wexner Medical Center has always been on the leading edge of discovery and patient care. But we are ready to go further.

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.