Overview

For nearly a decade, the University of Rochester Medical Center has been guided by an evolving, five-goal strategic plan that leverages its teaching, research, and patient care missions and its history of excellence in basic, applied, and translational biomedical research and practice to build the national reputation of the University of Rochester. The plan acknowledged tectonic shifts in the healthcare and research landscape and built pathways to growth and stability.

Those pathways now provide an advantage for meeting the daunting challenges sparked by the pandemic and the social justice movement. In fact, the plan’s original themes are as relevant as ever: expand and transform our healthcare delivery system; create an inclusive culture; build programs of excellence that span research, education, and clinical care; and accomplish all of this while maintaining fiscal discipline. The following is a synopsis of the interconnected goals of the URMC Strategic Plan.

Achievements of this goal

• Enhance the University of Rochester Medical Center as a national health system of choice for faculty and staff, patients, and potential partners
• Allow us to become a national leader as an equitable, just healthcare provider and employer.
• Create conditions that promote research addressing current and emerging issues that will affect society and will also expand the ability to recruit and retain extraordinary scholars who engage in this pursuit.
• Position the University of Rochester as a model for collaborative, multidisciplinary biomedical research.
• Allow us to achieve National Cancer Institute designation.