November Strategic Plan Update

Dear Colleagues,

The great baseball philosopher Yogi Bera once said, "If you don't know where you're going, you'll wind up somewhere else." He also said, "When you come to a fork in the road, take it."

We have indeed come to a fork in the road. One direction leads to growth and opportunity, the other to status quo—or much worse. At Johns Hopkins Medicine, our strategic plan is a roadmap we can follow to insure continued growth and opportunity.

By now you have heard about the strategic plan through emails from the two of us and from the presidents of the other JHM organizations. You have had an opportunity to learn more about the plan at town meetings and employee forums and from your managers. There have also been columns from us and articles in Dome along with stories about the plan and subsequent stories about specific strategic priorities in Employee Rounds, The Banner, Inside Hopkins, JHM News, Change and Kravet Korner. You should have received a mission, vision and core values card pocket card to help remind you of the foundation for our plan and you have probably seen the posters, murals and plasma screen messages reinforcing these messages.

We want to thank each of you who have read the plan and adopted the six strategic priorities: people, biomedical discovery, patient- and family-centered care, education, integration and performance. Let this be the framework through which you devise and carry out your work. Understanding and implementing the priorities is now part of everyone's job and success requires 100 percent participation.

Please be sure to refer to the strategic plan and develop your own individual action plan centered on the six strategic priorities.  We want each of you to integrate the plan into your daily work and to discuss your ideas with your team leader and team members. To help you develop your goals attached is an easy-to-use guideline that can be used to create and share goals related to the strategic priorities.

Leaders for the strategic priorities will begin holding forums at each of the locations to give all of you an opportunity to ask questions and talk about what you are doing to support the plan. In the meantime, please share your success stories, ask questions and make suggestions for improvements by sending an email to us and the leadership team at strategicplan@jhmi.edu.

We're excited by the many activities already taking place throughout JHM. By focusing our individual and collective actions through the six strategic priorities we can coordinate our daily work and align that work with our mission to deliver the best clinical care, biomedical research and medical education.

Thank you for leading the change.

Sincerely,

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

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

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