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Designing our path

Throughout the year, we put our energy into expanding the vision for VCU Health. Marsha D. Rappley, M.D., our CEO and vice president for VCU Health Sciences, worked with teams across VCU Health to design this vision:

“We are VCU Health System and VCU Health Sciences Schools, a powerful melding of faculty, staff, students and residents engaged in academic excellence and service.”

Our vision is guided by these six tiers:

  • We strengthen our safety net and expand beyond: we provide the highest level of advanced medical care to the greatest complexity of disease or social circumstances, thereby becoming the safest and finest health system in the nation.
  • We push discovery of the extraordinary into the realm of the ordinary, improving the lives of the people who need us.
  • We inspire our students and residents, and they inspire us. Together we each move to the next level of professional commitment through the power of our shared mission.
  • We build the diverse workforce, teaching force and research base that our patients and our nation deserves.
  • We lead the shaping of powerful partnerships between communities, universities, academic health centers and organizations across the nation, thereby shaping the health of the nation.
  • We care for each other, so that we can sustain the contributions of our talent, energy, and commitment, thereby best serving those who need us.

In support of our six tiers, we are focusing on these pathways:

  • Growing and enlarging our sphere of impact. Our mission will thrive well into the future, reaching outside our walls
  • Aligning our health system, health sciences schools, university, community and national organizations
  • Creating the highest value experience for our patients, students and residents by listening to and learning from what they tell us
  • Including a workforce that is relevant to our patients, students and teams; calling out cultural competency and inclusion because they are needed to meet our mission
  • Building infrastructure that supports our patients, students, staff and faculty and creating spaces that inspire confidence, comfort, learning, discovery and well-being
  • Deepening operational excellence and organizational effectiveness to reflect the deepening excellence of our people Designing innovation through the lens of large populations with a focus on every individual we touch; engaging people from all aspects of health care and of society