UCSF Medical Center leaders will provide an update on the strategic plan for the clinical enterprise at a town hall meeting on Tuesday, July 8.
Mark Laret, chief executive officer of the medical center, will join Sam Hawgood, MB, BS, interim dean of the UCSF School of Medicine, Jay Harris, chief strategy and business development officer at the medical center, and consultants from Kurt Salmon Associates in the discussion.
The campus community is invited to attend the town hall meeting, which will be held from noon to 1 p.m. in Cole Hall in the Medical Sciences Building, 513 Parnassus Ave.
The medical center is updating its existing strategic plan, developed in 2002 – and is identifying key strategies and services that will enable UCSF to meet growing patient demand and institutional needs over the next seven years – prior to the opening of the new medical center at Mission Bay.
The medical center, like other schools, centers and departments across UCSF, is updating its plan to align it with the first-ever UCSF Strategic Plan. The product of a highly inclusive process, the campuswide strategic plan calls for making improvements across UCSF’s fourfold mission of patient care, education, health sciences research and public service.
It recommends building upon UCSF’s strengths as a world-renowned academic health center in part by expanding opportunities for translational research, fostering patient-centered care, and advancing interdisciplinary collaboration and global health. The entire plan is posted here.
Providing highest-quality care is one of seven strategic directions identified in that plan, which lists three goals for the clinical enterprise: provide high-quality, patient-centered care leading to optimal outcomes and patient satisfaction, improve access to care, and set the standard for patient safety.
One of the strategies in the plan calls for the construction of a new medical center complex for women, children and cancer patients at Mission Bay. By 2014, the 289-bed hospital complex will include a:
• 183-bed, family-centered children’s hospital with urgent and emergency care and clinics for pediatric primary care and specialties
• 70-bed adult hospital for cancer patients
• women’s hospital for cancer care, specialty surgery, a 36-bed birth center and women’s clinics
In addition, the new complex will include an energy center, a helipad and support facilities such as parking.
