As we strive to continually enhance our care and services, we have defined six Strategic Imperatives to guide our efforts and decisions. Our goal is to improve the health of the population and sustain our ability to provide safe, quality care for our patients, clients, residents and families.

Following is an outline of our six Strategic Imperatives and supporting objectives:

Capacity Create capacity to meet the health care needs of our population.

Objectives:

1. Increase and reconfigure acute care capacity and plan for growth of community services.
2. Optimize existing capacity and improve access by creating interdisciplinary teams to implement patient-flow solutions for core pressure areas throughout our networks.
3. Advance capital plans that build facilities and IT infrastructure, and supply equipment to meet service needs.
4. Mitigate demand for complex and acute care services by expanding interdisciplinary primary care and implementing effective prevention initiatives.

Quality and Safety
Deliver exceptional service as an organization that pursues quality and is recognized nationally for its results.

Objectives:

1. Advance a culture that demonstrates respect, caring and trust.
2. Use evidence-based practice to provide care that is centered on the patient, resident, client and family.
3. Evolve accountability and invest in infrastructure to improve quality, action and outcomes.
4. Pursue quality and safety by promoting innovation in teaching, education and research

Integration Create an integrated and sustainable health system.

Objectives:

1. Increase understanding of system integration to reflect the needs of our population.
2. Create integrated service, clinical governance and leadership models.
3. Align primary, acute and community networks to deliver the right care, in the right place.
4. Use clinical information and technology to advance integration and quality of care and service.
5. Redesign the care delivery system to support leading practice and enhance efficiency.
6. Create a shared system of corporate services with other health authorities.

Research and Academic Development Be an academic health care organization that improves health outcomes and health services sustainability through teaching, education and research.

Objectives:

1. Foster a “culture of curiosity” through evidence-informed decisions and translation of knowledge into action.
2. Support new models of inter-professional clinical education, training and mentorship.
3. Develop research networks and enhance the infrastructure to support grant and industry-sponsored research.
4. Increase the number of Fraser Health people leading and participating in research teams.

Progressive Partnerships Advance strategic alliances and progressive partnerships.

Objectives:

1. Engage “citizens as partners” to support healthy living, self-management and advocacy.
2. Create healthy communities through collaborative partnerships with municipalities and community agencies.
3. Develop internal and external partnerships to align funding, agencies, partners and resources to improve services and the health of our population. 

Great Workplaces Create workplaces where people want to contribute because the environment and culture supports their well-being and engagement.

Objectives:

1. Ensure the well-being and safety of our people.
2. Provide meaningful, regular feedback and recognition to support individual and team success.
3. Retain and recruit the best people.
4. Support work practices and structure roles to foster work/life balance.
5. Encourage personal and professional development.
6. Enable our people to engage, lead and actively participate in achieving our goals.