Update on Our Strategic Plan

To the Johns Hopkins Medicine Community

Dear Colleagues,

In July 2013, we launched a five-year strategic plan structured around six pillars: people, biomedical discovery, patient- and family-centered care, education, integration and performance. Over the past four years, the Johns Hopkins Medicine Strategic Plan has been instrumental in guiding our decisions as we have responded to the changes in the health care environment and developed more collaborative, innovative and efficient ways of doing things. Your commitment and hard work have contributed to some of our notable accomplishments, including:

• Launching SuccessFactors to help align and cascade goals across the organization 
• Developing a primary care track for Johns Hopkins medical students
• Implementing Language of Caring across Johns Hopkins Medicine to improve the consistency of our caring communication skills
• Establishing affiliations and collaborations with other health care organizations, such as the Allegheny Health Network in Pennsylvania
• Launching a Precision Medicine Center of Excellence for prostate cancer and another for multiple sclerosis

This fiscal year represents the fifth and final year of the current Johns Hopkins Medicine Strategic Plan. In the final year, we are placing special emphasis on achieving the long-range goals we identified when the plan was launched. Examples include:

• Achieving the 67th percentile or higher on standardized employee engagement surveys
• Increasing research funding from non-National Institutes of Health sources
• Improving performance on patient satisfaction surveys to place us at or above the top quartile

To sustain this momentum, we are beginning to draft a new version of the Strategic Plan that will take effect in July 2018 and provide continued direction for Johns Hopkins Medicine. Over the past few months, through the guidance of the Strategic Plan Executive Council, which is composed of leadership from across Johns Hopkins Medicine, we have begun gathering feedback on the effectiveness of the existing plan, as well as ideas to improve the next version.

The new plan will continue to include the six pillars and will establish three essential goals to serve as areas of focus for the next five years:

• Creating Value
• Embracing Precision
• Strengthening Communities

Setting our strategic direction is a shared opportunity, one that welcomes the engagement of everyone throughout the enterprise. If you have thoughts on how Johns Hopkins Medicine can create value, enhance precision and strengthen the communities we serve, we encourage you to submit them to strategicplan@jhmi.edu. Thank you for your time and effort as we plan together for the future success of Johns Hopkins Medicine.

Sincerely,

Paul B. Rothman, M.D.
Dean of the Medical Faculty
CEO, Johns Hopkins Medicine

Ronald R. Peterson
President, Johns Hopkins Health System
EVP, Johns Hopkins Medicine