The Center's Strategic Direction

In the summer of 2010, a task group of The Center for Health Affairs Board of Trustees developed a three-year Strategic Direction for the organization. The Strategic Direction provides a blueprint for the association’s work for 2011 through 2013. Under the plan, the association will both sustain programming in areas the membership has over time indicated are important to them and develop new programming. The initiatives have been grouped into five broad categories: data & information, workforce, policy & economic development, quality & safety, and community programs. Each category includes specific deliverables along with an implementation plan. More detail is available below.

Strategic Initiative 1.0 - Data & Information
Provide member hospitals with timely, accurate and meaningful information that is valuable for improving our members’ operational effectiveness.

Strategic Initiative 2.0 - Workforce
Assist our members in creating and developing the healthcare workforce for the 21st century.

Strategic Initiative 3.0 - Policy Economic Development
Fully utilize the collective leverage of our members in the areas of community development, economic development and public policy. Provide regular, timely, and relevant information to C-suite leaders on emerging issues of opportunity and threat to members.

Strategic Initiative 4.0 - Quality & Safety
Support member hospitals in achieving or exceeding public indicators and best practice benchmarks in quality of care and patient safety through educational opportunities, sharing of data, interpretation of data to the media.

Strategic Initiative 5.0 - Community Programs
Create opportunities for hospital/health systems to coordinate/collaborate to identify and address the health needs of the community and improve the benefits they provide to Northeast Ohio community.