Making a Global Impact
The Path Now
MAKING A
Creating new ways to teach the healing arts and sciences.
Unlocking the mysteries of the human brain. Combatting chronic and infectious diseases. Making innovative use of technology. Designing healing environments. Providing access to the best care for growing communities.
Our Mission
To improve health by delivering innovative education and training, pursuing cutting-edge research, and providing the highest quality patient care.
Areas of Focus
PEOPLE
CLINICAL CARE
EDUCATION
RESEARCH
INNOVATION
OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE
GLOBAL IMPACT
The examples are varied and nearly limitless, but they all depend on our ability to plan effectively and adjust to changes in the rapidly evolving fields of health care and academic medicine.
This Path Now defines the goals for UTMB Health for FY25, and serves as the foundation for plans at the entity, department and division level.
Our Vision
We work together to define the future of medicine in education, research, innovation and patient care.
Our Values
Compassion Integrity Respect Diversity Lifelong Learning
People
UTMB’s enduring legacy and our continued success can be attributed to our most vital and important asset: our people. That remains as true today as it did at our founding more than 130 years ago. UTMB is dedicated to investing in our people and our workforce. We prioritize recruiting and retaining top talent, as well as supporting long-term and professional development.
We will enhance our investments in people by:
Supporting our inclusive work environment to ensure all employees are equally involved in and supported in all areas.
Investing in talent and recruitment/ retention strategies, such as rebranding and promoting the Employee Value Proposition, establishing a new job architecture for priority jobs, and delivering market-competitive compensation.
Enhancing opportunities for leadership programs and professional development with various learning systems, coursework, and leadership training.
Creating a workforce pipeline through apprenticeship and training programs, and community engagement strategies, such as training community high school students in the medical assistant, tech, and health care support field.
Developing new programs for employee wellness/well-being to mitigate burnout or workplace exhaustion.
Advancing faculty development in the Academic Enterprise through the creation of programs focused on mentorship, professional development, recognition and other career advancement initiatives.
People By the Numbers: FY24 statistics
14,709 staff
974 faculty members
745 residents 101 post-docs
Invest in our people and our workforce:
Employee recruitment and retention goals
Wellness Task Force initiatives
Leadership programs and professional development courses
Workforce pipeline programs
FOUNDATION
Clinical Care
UTMB is committed to delivering exceptional clinical care to every patient, every time. Quality, access, and patient experience are fundamental to providing the best care for our community.
We deliver high quality Clinical Care by:
Advancing quality, safety, and patient experience by meeting targeted scores and initiatives and being a high-value performing organization to secure top rankings with national organizations.
Expanding UTMB’s primary care and specialty care footprint with a dedicated service-line strategy and targeted ambulatory expansions.
Focusing on strategic growth targets, such as new patient visits, inpatient discharges, procedural volumes, utilization-to-provider capacity, access metrics, and patient scheduling.
Expanding partnerships, growing collaborations, and exploring relationships to strengthen infrastructure for new payment models, revenue streams, and targeted services.
Maximizing throughput and creating efficiencies for our Correctional Managed Care patients by utilizing infirmary beds and establishing processes to increase surgical activity.
Clinical Care By the Numbers: FY24 statistics
43,000+ hospital discharges
1.4 million outpatient encounters
145,000+ emergency dept. visits
6,665 deliveries in our L&D units
Provides medical, dental and health services to nearly 80% of the state’s offender population
96 clinics and 4 hospital campuses with three retail and one specialty pharmacy
GROWTH
Deliver patient-centered, quality care:
Achieve Top 10 Vizient ranking
New patient visits
Market share
Access targets
Surgical procedures
Targeted geographical expansion
Education
As a leading academic medical center, UTMB provides high-quality education with innovative learning experiences. We are dedicated to the education, training, and development of a highly skilled health care workforce.
Our Educational priorities are:
Enhancing UTMB’s Interprofessional Education model to foster integrated collaboration in order to deliver patientcentered care and improve health outcomes.
Achieving accreditation and academic goals for all schools, including but not limited to, pass rates, match rates, job placement rates, graduation rates and national rankings.
Developing a sustainable business model to support academic programs, including post-graduate and other workforce certification programs.
Meeting health care workforce needs of UTMB and the State of Texas by ensuring new graduate placements, undergraduate pathways to graduate education, and recruitment efforts for underrepresented minority faculty.
Expanding educational opportunities by creating new programs, establishing new clinical rotation sites, and designing a training/education business entity to attract and provide professionals with training, continuous education, and other related programs.
Education By the Numbers: FY24 statistics
Near 100% matching rate of students to residencies
John Sealy School of Medicine (March 2024)
2024 Best Online Master’s in Nursing Programs; No. 4 for Veterans; No. 12 Best Online
Master’s in Nursing
U.S. News and World Report School of Nursing
Established the Doctor of Occupational Therapy Program at the UT Center at Laredo
12,000+ alumni practicing in Texas
1,186 total degrees awarded (Academic Year 23-24)
FUTURE
Deliver innovative educational programs:
Accreditation/ Reaccreditation
Enrollment
Graduation rate
Match rates
Interprofessional curriculum development
Student employment
Research
UTMB strives to be at the forefront of medical research, advancing discoveries and treatments for human health. Our investigators, researchers, and state-ofthe-art laboratories are what makes our research enterprise world-renowned.
We will continue to enhance our Research by:
Being a distinguished leader in medical research by continuing to receive National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant awards and increasing UTMB’s overall ranking in the Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research.
Utilizing the expertise of the Galveston National Laboratory to explore partnerships and identify opportunities for additional funding and space for new research activities.
Advancing the groundbreaking initiatives and work of our institutes for Vaccine Sciences, Drug Discovery, Brain Health and our Diagnostic Center, and establishing institutes on Aging and Artificial Intelligence.
Collaborating across various Research Centers and Institutes at UTMB, as well as with regional, national, and international teams to advance health science.
Integrating our research initiatives with clinical care to provide cuttingedge treatment and clinical programs.
Research By the Numbers: FY24 statistics
$303 million total research funding awarded
$961 million in sponsored activities submitted #1 among peer departments for NIH funding
UTMB Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Cutting-edge research to reduce memory problems associated with Alzheimer’s disease 189 active clinical trails
Advance discoveries and treatments for human health:
Research funding Blue Ridge Institute rankings NIH rankings Institute for Drug Discovery Launch Brain Health Institute
IMPACTFUL
Innovation
At the heart of our innovation lies a commitment to transforming ideas into tangible solutions that enhance patient care and outcomes. By bridging the gap between academia and industry, UTMB Health strives to unlock synergistic opportunities that maximize the impact of biomedical discoveries.
Our Innovation priorities are:
Furthering the mission of the UTMB Life Science Incubator to support earlystage life science start-up companies and entrepreneurs in fostering the commercialization of UTMB research and technologies and academic-industry collaboration while also enhancing local and regional economies.
Expanding Artificial Intelligence (AI) initiatives to enhance clinical decisionmaking, streamline operations, and drive research innovation, ultimately leading to better patient outcomes and more efficient care.
Engaging patients and deploying our health care expertise when and where it’s needed, from space to the South Pole and even on the high seas.
Exploring innovative health care strategies to increase reach of UTMB services and leveraging research initiatives to create differentiation in our clinical services.
Adopting a model of care approach that prioritizes high quality, compassionate clinical care delivered in a multispecialty, integrated organization focused on improving health for all patients.
Enhancing the number of partnerships in global health research, where UTMB currently has collaborations in more than 130 countries around the globe.
Innovation By the Numbers: FY24 statistics
225 active US Patents held by UTMB
43 disclosures of inventions
Opening of the UTMB Life Science Incubator designed to support early-stage life science companies with 4,000 square feet of wet lab space and 3,000 square feet of office space
Established a new Entrepreneurial Training Program (ETP) for students to help UTMB faculty develop a startup fundraising pitch to commercialize their technologies
Transform innovative ideas to solutions for patient outcomes:
Further efforts to launch biomedical startups
Expand AI initiatives to improve health
Adopt a model-of-care approach
Enhance Global Health Partnerships
INVENTIVE
Operational Excellence
To meet current and future strategic objectives across all our mission areas, UTMB must prioritize and ensure the fiscal stability and responsibility of the institution while at the same time maintaining a strong and resilient infrastructure. Achieving our mission, looking forward to our vision, and maintaining our values is core to our success.
Our Operational Excellence priorities are:
Establishing a long-term financial plan to achieve financial sustainability and allow for mission reinvestment going forward.
Overseeing capital project management to ensure resources are deployed efficiently and appropriately to maximize facility use, but also to ensure completion of projects timely and on-budget, as well as address infrastructure and maintenance.
Achieving philanthropic targets to meet funding goals in support of educational, research, innovation and clinical care priorities.
Expanding community engagement and public relations efforts across the region, state and nation.
Strengthening data and analytics platforms to improve functionality and performance.
Maintaining legislative efforts such as increasing formula funding, securing startup funds for new initiatives, increasing funding for health care workforce programs, and supporting Correctional Managed Care priorities to ensure high-quality, cost-effective care.
Implementing and sustaining an IT infrastructure to foster growth, provide cybersecurity, advance business intelligence, and support data storage needs to support the institution through the 89th Legislature.
Optimizing supply chain by improving inventory management, strengthening supplier relationships, integrating advanced technologies, and streamlining procurement and logistic processes.
Operational Excellence By the Numbers: FY24 statistics
$3.2 total budget, the highest in UTMB’s history
10.2 million gross square footage managed at UTMB across four campuses and clinics across the region
$4.9 billion annual economic impact statewide (business volume, personal income and durable goods purchases)
Support mission areas with fiscal and operational effectiveness:
FY25 budget targets
Revenue growth and expense management
On-budget and on-time facility targets
Philanthropic goals
Expand visibility of UTMB brand
RESILIENT
Metrics We Measure
Recruitment/Onboarding Retention
• Recruiting/Onboarding
• Retention
Quality/Patient Experience
• National Rankings
• Patient Experience
• Patient Access
Growth
• Primary Care and Specialty Care Visits
• Hospital Discharges
• Outpatient Procedural Volumes
Clinical Operations/Efficiency
• Observation Days
• Length of Stay
• Clinical Supply Costs
• Slot Utilization
Finance
• Labor Costs
• Days Cash on Hand
• Days in Accounts Receivable
• Cash Collections and Net to Expected
• Gifts and Commitments
• Operating Income Margin
Research
• Research Funding
• Blue Ridge Rankings
• Cost of Research Core Structure
Innovations
• Artificial Intelligence (AI) Programs to Improve Efficiency, Quality and Patient Experience
• Licensed Technologies to External Entities
Academic
• Match Rates
• Pass Rates
• Enrollment Rates
• National Rankings
METRICS
