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Corresponding actions for Goal 3.A.1:

• Ensure that care, services and therapies are available and accessible to all populations across Washington, including UW employees.
• Partner with community, tribal and regional organizations to identify barriers to care and expand access to culturally responsive services.
• Examine access to post-acute care and optimize the use of existing clinical, research and operational assets to improve continuity of care, access and patient outcomes.
• Optimize, and where possible, strategically grow capacity in high-impact clinical services such as cancer, cardiology and transplant surgery.
• Optimize capacity to reinvest in our public and academic mission.
• Expand the clinical capacity of UW Medical Center – Montlake while preserving the co-location and integration of patient care, teaching and research in close partnership with UW health science programs across the three campuses.
• Develop and implement innovative care delivery models that integrate digital tools and human-centered design to create the hospital and clinic of the future.

Corresponding actions for Goal 3.A.2:

• Expand educational capacity, training infrastructure and learner resources across the three UW campuses and WWAMI training sites to meet regional workforce needs.
• Align health workforce development strategies with current and projected regional healthcare workforce needs through ongoing assessment and planning with employers and communities.
• Engage community providers who are not currently involved in clinical training by demonstrating the value of partnership in addressing regional workforce and community health needs.
• Strengthen career pathways into health professions through partnerships with underserved, tribal and rural areas across WWAMI to address community-identified workforce needs and reduce barriers to entry to training.

Corresponding actions for Goal 3.A.3:

• Continue to design care and services around the needs and experiences of patients and communities by leveraging community needs assessment data, population health data and patient feedback.
• Increase capacity to help patients access and navigate care especially in maternal, mental, behavioral and community health settings.
• Pursue systems re-design and develop systems-level processes that leverage technologies to create more seamless patient pathways across the UW and community-based services.
• Partner with community organizations to extend community-based access to health information, care navigation support and culturally responsive services for underserved patients.
• Improve visibility, wayfinding and access to UW resources and services through technology-enabled navigation tools and reduced barriers to access.

Corresponding actions for Goal 3.B.1:

• Establish community-informed partnerships and decision-making processes for emerging technologies by engaging community members, health professionals, researchers and technologists from the outset to identify priority health challenges and inform technology development, governance and deployment decisions.
• Develop and implement frameworks for the governance, monitoring and evaluation of emerging technologies that address equity, privacy, bias, environmental impacts, safety, effectiveness, accountability and health outcomes.
• Promote responsible innovation in technology by recognizing and incentivizing practices that advance equity, transparency, safety, accountability and trustworthy use.
• Strengthen data infrastructure, analytics capabilities and responsible data-sharing practices.

Corresponding actions for Goal 3.B.2:

• Establish mechanisms to advance promising innovations from pilot environments to implementation and scale across the health system and communities the UW serves.
• Strengthen the implementation capacity, support systems and expertise needed to help researchers, clinicians and partners advance innovations from development to sustainable adoption.
• Align institutional policies, incentives, funding strategies and recognition programs to accelerate translation, adoption and measurable impact.
• Prioritize investments in technologies, capabilities, partnerships and talent that strengthen the pathways from innovation to improved patient and population health.
• Increase visibility of promising innovations and implementation opportunities by connecting researchers, clinicians, patients and community partners through networking events, matchmaking, shared platforms and other intentional engagement across the University.

Corresponding actions for Goal 3.C.1:

• Expand interdisciplinary and interprofessional research, education and practice-based initiatives that address underlying drivers of health, well-being, resilience and social connectedness.
• Integrate prevention, health equity, population health and community well-being considerations into the UW’s academic, research, clinical and operational initiatives.
• Increase training and experiential learning opportunities that prepare students and employees to engage effectively and ethically in community-based work across sectors.
• Incentivize interdisciplinary and interprofessional collaboration through seed funding, recognition programs and other activities.

Corresponding actions for Goal 3.C.2:

• Partner with communities and organizations to co-design, implement and evaluate evidence-based solutions that improve quality of life, strengthen local capacity and inform broader adoption.
• Expand support for locally driven projects that address community-defined needs and drive measurable public benefit.
• Create shared programs, networks and support structures that connect employees, students and partners working on community well-being and population health challenges.
• Develop rapid response mechanisms to mobilize expertise around emerging community health and well-being challenges affecting Washington and the WWAMI region.
• Strengthen local, regional and global partnerships that facilitate the exchange and application of knowledge to improve health and well-being locally and globally.