Roswell Park has always had a vision to keep advancing the organization, and this Strategic Plan is meant to unify all of the projects and initiatives across the center under one vision, ensuring we are all working together toward a common goal.
This plan was developed to help communicate key priorities, to help guide decision making, and to help our employees better understand how their work contributes to our success as a leading cancer center.
– Candace Johnson, President & CEO
How did Roswell Park build it?
Dr. Johnson and other organizational leaders developed a clear set of strategic objectives and project ideas for Roswell Park to focus on during the next five years.
Roswell Park aims to enhance accessibility to high quality, cutting-edge treatments and technology, all while keeping patient needs, preferences, and values at the forefront of our decision making.
- Design a patient journey that creates a consistent experience across inpatient, outpatient, virtual, and home care settings to provide the highest quality of care.
- Provide safe high quality, evidence-based care promoting autonomous nursing practice, and using quality data to drive outcomes.
- Modernize our information technology infrastructure and care processes to meet the future needs of our clinicians, patients and community.
Roswell Park will implement groundbreaking team science initiatives to prioritize basic, clinical, behavioral, epidemiological and translational research through innovative technologies, advanced diagnostics and cellular therapies.
- Enhance internal services to make Roswell Park a partner of choice with industry organizations.
- Become a destination for cell therapy, immunotherapy, and novel therapeutics to develop the next generation of cancer therapies.
- Establish a Nursing Research Department within the cancer center to accelerate transdisciplinary translational research.
Roswell Park will work with community partners to eliminate cancer’s burden through prevention, early detection, effective treatment, and survivorship with specific focus on the needs of our region.
- Lead regional and state-wide coalitions of coordinated outreach initiatives, disseminate education and resources, and advocate policies to accelerate community participation in evidence-based cancer control interventions.
- Support nursing’s role in community-based programs focused on prevention, early detection, and inclusion in clinical trials.
Roswell Park will prioritize education, mentoring, and support of clinicians, researchers, trainees, and healthcare professionals in cancer care and discovery.
- Develop a learning organization culture that prioritizes innovation and enables knowledge-sharing and learning.
- Integrate and coordinate all cancer-related educational programs and activities across Roswell Park.
- Enhance the academic productivity and promote career advancement of faculty through mentorship and professional development programs.
- Develop an integrated system of performance metrics and outcome tracking for continuous assessment and refinement of programs.
- Gain national reputation for our nursing professional development and academic programs.
Roswell Park will implement diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) best practices across cancer center operations to support sustainable cultural transformation.
- Continually develop and deploy engagement, resiliency, and DEI strategies to address opportunities for improvement informed by surveys and organizational metrics.
Roswell Park will continually improve highly reliable operational and clinical processes.
- Launch an operational improvement program to improve Roswell Park's performance in key clinical, business, and research domains.
- Complete a Revenue Cycle initiative to enhance business practices and optimize billing/collections.
- Ensure financial sustainability through grant funding, resource optimization, and philanthropy.
- Actively support initiatives above and beyond healthcare services to enhance the communities we serve.