Serving a Changing World is Penn Medicine's Strategic Plan for 2023 through 2028. This comprehensive plan sets forth the direction for Penn Medicine's priorities, guiding our strategies and decisions, and ensuring the continued advancement of our legacy in innovation and excellence.

Through the plan's targeted initiatives and visionary leadership, Penn Medicine aims to shape the future of health care and adapt to the evolving needs of a rapidly changing world.

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Overview

The plan's five pillars build upon Penn Medicine's rich history and commitment to exceptional health care to reflect a broad mission and a commitment to elevating the field.

The equitable distribution of health and health care are essential elements of justice. We will treat all of our staff, all of our patients, all of our students, and all of our communities with dedication and compassion.

  • Reflect our community.
  • Give all Penn Medicine patients access to all of Penn Medicine.
  • Model workforce humanity.
  • Establish accountability for equity.

Discovery propels us, improving and differentiating our service to patients, students, and the world. We will invest in opportunities we can see now and invest in an environment that creates and captures prospects not yet seen.

  • Aim our research infrastructure towards the future.
  • Lean-in to the opportunities and imperatives of digital technology and clinical informatics.
  • Build the infrastructure of health equity research.
  • Release even more synergies from our integrated missions.
  • Make Penn Medicine the world's most recognized source of scientific innovation.

Patient Care must be easy on patients and easy on clinicians. Placing care within reach means making it accessible and affordable, offering accommodation, and reassurance. We will adapt delivery systems to the needs of patients and clinicians.

  • Recognize science as a leading differentiator of what we bring to patients.
  • Be, and be seen as, the most clinician-friendly health system.
  • Make Penn Medicine a source of comfort, ease, and reassurance.
  • Embrace anytime-anywhere.

Health care and population health are human enterprises. We will create and deploy new approaches to transform training and professional development.

  • Get people into their careers faster, less expensively, and more flexibly.
  • Create the workforce our patients and enterprise need tomorrow.
  • Lead not just in education, but in the research and innovation of education.
  • Advance people throughout their careers.
We live here. We will improve our community, improve the lives of our students and staff, and improve the natural environment.
  • Increase life expectancy and the social and economic welfare of community residents.
  • Establish Penn Medicine as the nation's most environmentally-friendly health care organization.
  • Reduce the workplace and life burdens that impede employee wellness.
  • Advance care for our employees as we would advance care for our patients.

Employee Resources

Explore these resources to acquaint yourself with the Strategic Plan and discover ways to contribute.

The design motif featured in the strategic plan was created by Nikita Rochiramani and then modified by Penn Medicine Creative Services. It draws inspiration from Maya Lin's Tree of Life sculpture that graces the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania-Pavilion lobby. The design aims to convey that the plan will grow and evolve, to evoke the interconnectedness of our several missions, and to reflect the foundation that we will lead with humanity in everything we do.

For information on our planning process, please visit this page

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