Strategic Plan

Strategic Planning

Our 20 year strategic vision and 5 year action plan for New Mexico. Contact us at strategy@salud.unm.edu to volunteer in a workgroup.

UNM Health & Health Sciences Strategic Plan Implementation

UNM Health and Health Sciences completed an internal and external data analysis, conducted interviews and facilitated focus groups to develop seven strategic priorities to highlight. Design sessions were held with wide cross sections of internal and external stakeholders to shape objectives and opportunites where work groups refined objectives and develope tactics and action steps for implementation. The planning committee held feedback sessions to develop an ambitious and achievable 20-year strategic vision with 5 year action plan.

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Click here to view the Path to Strategic Plan Implementation
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The Purposes of Strategic Planning

Achieve Alignment with UNM 2040

Develop strategies that evolve, support and bring to life our mission, vision and core values in alignment with UNM 2040

Integrate Strategies Across System Components

Coalesce, reflect and align the strategic plans from the component systems under an overall plan

Facilitate an Engaging and Productive Process

Support leadership in the planning process including engaging relevant stakeholders and creating the new plan and products

Achieve Alignment with UNM 2040

Develop strategies that evolve, support and bring to life our mission, vision and core values in alignment with UNM 2040

Integrate Strategies Across System Components

Coalesce, reflect and align the strategic plans from the component systems under an overall plan

Facilitate an Engaging and Productive Process

Support leadership in the planning process including engaging relevant stakeholders and creating the new plan and products

Our Vision, Mission and Core Values

Transform health and health science education and research to improve health and health equity for New Mexico and beyond.

We exist to lead New Mexico toward health equity through our unique integration of care delivery, education, discovery and innovation, and through advocacy and collaborations. We celebrate the diverse cultures and history of our state while creating an inclusive and compassionate community that makes UNM Health and Health Sciences an extraordinary place to study, work and serve.

Healing: both within individuals and among our communities that cultivates hope, care and joy
Equity: for all New Mexicans in health, education and economic opportunity
Excellence: in health care, education and research and in building a place where people seek to study, work and serve
Innovation: in all aspects of our mission enabling us to rise to the health, workforce and economic challenges of our time
Compassion: in how we treat our patients, students, each other and ourselves
Service: accountable to our diverse communities across New Mexico

Our Vision, Mission and Core Values

Vision

Transform health and health science education and research to improve health and health equity for New Mexico and beyond.

Mission

Core Values

Healing: both within individuals and among our communities that cultivates hope, care and joy
Equity: for all New Mexicans in health, education and economic opportunity
Excellence: in health care, education and research and in building a place where people seek to study, work and serve
Innovation: in all aspects of our mission enabling us to rise to the health, workforce and economic challenges of our time
Compassion: in how we treat our patients, students, each other and ourselves
Service: accountable to our diverse communities across New Mexico

Strategic Priorities with Implementation Leaders

Prioritize Workforce Development, Recruitment and Retention

Cultivate strong educational pathways early on for New Mexicans to pursue healthcare careers. Prioritize investment in healthcare provider and faculty recruitment and retention from both within New Mexico and out-of-state. Cultivate a safe and supportive workplace.

Goals

Advance New Mexico's state-wide needs by developing the health care workforce of the future and help in retaining the workforce across the state to serve New Mexicans.
Advance UNM's own workforce needs by enhancing workforce development and attracting and retaining diverse, highly productive and talented people who exemplify our core values and are inspired to educate and heal the populations of people we have the privilege to serve at UNM
Elevate the wellbeing and safety of the individuals that make up UNM Health & Health Sciences through systemic change, supporting individuals and develop a best-in-class talent experience with a culture that supports community and belonging

Implementation Leaders are Jeffery Dubinski-Neessen, Helen Nielsen, Akshay Sood, Jennifer Ortega

Elevate Behavioral Health: Address Mental Health & Substance Misuse

Become a national leader in addressing the rising need for behavioral health services through research, medical education and clinical care with a public health lens that addresses the urgent needs such of New Mexicans (e.g., substance use, depression, etc.).

Goals

Become a national leader in behavioral health education, research and care by mobilizing our institution's expertise and external partners to lead a state-wide coalition aimed at transforming behavioral health care across New Mexico including by advancing public health policy and through fully engaged advocacy
Develop service and technology innovations in how to best integrate Behavioral Health Services through research, education and clinical care at UNM in service of our unique populations of students and patients
Helping all of New Mexico to elevate awareness, advocacy and pursuit of new resources for increasing substance use prevention, treatment, education and research as a critical pillar of all behavioral health services in response to the urgent needs of New Mexicans and as a model for broader adoption nationwide

Implementation Leaders are Mauricio Tohen, Rodney McNease

Enhance Health Equity, including for Rural, Hispanic, Native American and other Underserved Groups

Focus on partnering with regional health and public health infrastructure. Invest in resources that engage and support the underserved communities in New Mexico. Elevate the voice of Hispanic and Native American populations within the state. There are many other underserved groups including Black, Asian, LGBTQ+, Veterans, those with disabilities, etc.

Goals

Center equity within the culture of UNM Health and Health Sciences to be an example for the communities we serve and to also learn by their example
Elevate the voices of Hispanic, Latino and Native American people across the state of New Mexico as we also seek to engage, learn from and support the interests of these and other underserved communities
Improve the health and well-being of all New Mexicans by improving awareness, training and intervention strategies around social determinants of health, adverse childhood events and multigenerational trauma with Project ECHO and other tactics
Use a Health Equity lens to strengthen UNM Health and Health Sciences' role in developing, advocating and leading in health policy and partner with regional and public health infrastructure to advance health equity throughout New Mexico

Implementation Leaders are Lisa Cacari-Stone, Art Kaufman

Expand Impact through Research

Focus on research specific to New Mexico’s unique population and challenges. Cultivate collaborative and transdisciplinary research that addresses grand challenges that represent the state’s needs and strengths with the intent of impacting the health and economy of New Mexico.

Goals

Establish national leadership in select research areas that both leverage and enhance our strengths ant that are important to New Mexico's unique population and challenges through collaborative and transdisciplinary research initiatives
Identify and invest in basic science and translational research programs that will lead to transformative discoveries and impact, inlcuding data science, informatics and computational science across the University
Strengthen our scientific and administrative research infrastructure and external partnerships to support the elevation of our research programs to be nationally competitive and prominent in our areas of focus
Establish and invest in creating research career development pathways for developing and retaining faculty, staff and studnet investigators who are committed to serving the state and helping to solve its most pressing health challenges

Implementation Leaders are Hengameh Raissy, Bill Shuttleworth

Enhance Access, Quality and Safety of Clinical Care

Achieve excellence in clinical care by supporting infrastructure, workforce, accountability and data systems. Invest in emerging medical technologies to enhance clinical care and prevention that will improve patient satisfaction and outcomes.

Goals

Achieve excellence in quality and dsafety, focused on value-based care delivery while improving patient outcomes and patient experience through expanding building facilities and workforce capacity and leveraging leveraging innovations in technology, informatics and workforce development
Expand access to clnical services throughout New Mexico state using a multi-modal approach and engaging with community-based providers across the state and in service of health equity
Continue to innovate in models of care and reimbursement that enable improvements in access, quality, safety while deliverying patient-centered, caregiver-led clinical care and enabling long-term financial stewardship and sustainability for the safety new health system within New Mexico

Implementation Leaders are Mike richards, Kate Becker, Jamie Silva-Steele, Interim UNMMG CEO, Jill Klar

Enrich Student Experience, Educational Innovation and Outcomes

Cultivate strong connections to the University, especially for undergraduates. Support resource-sharing and equity among school/colleges. Focus on expanding research and education collaborations, innovation and supporting students through career development.

Goals

Improve UNM student experience and well-being and provide wrap-around supports to include addressing basic needs and mental health with the goal of building an exceptional and attractive place to learn and serve after graduation, across UNM including the branch campuses
Enhance educational innovation at UNM Health Sciences to both create an attractive student experience and to expand capacity to educate students who require clinical experience and supervision for graudation and licensure; and to provide a high-value educational experience for those that pursue non-clinical health related professions
Lead the New Mexcio health and health science workforce development and consider how to enhance outcomes and where to increase student body across Health Sciences to support the short- and long-term health care workforce needs within UNM Health and across New Mexico, including expanding and elevating pathways

Implementation Leaders are Shelly McLaughlin, Todd Hynson

Advance New Mexico's Economic Development in Biosciences and Health Care Services and Technology

Advance New Mexico Economic Development in Biosciences and Biotech by accelerating the translation of our research and other innovations to develop and support patent filings, business development and strategic partnerships.

Goals

Create and support a new and sustainable economy with companies, patents and jobs in Biosciences and Biotechnology for New Mexico
Create a culture to support faculty, staff and students learning on innovation and entrepreneurship
Fuel an ecosystem to advance innovation and entrepreneurship that emerges from UNM
Invest in partnerships and infrastructure to create an ecosystem within UNM that advances economic development from the University

Implementation Leaders are Ryan Cangiolosi, David Perkins, Eric Prossnitz