UTMB Strategic Plan

2023-2027

PEOPLE

CLINICAL CARE

EDUCATION

RESEARCH

OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE

Focus for the Future: UTMB’s Strategic Plan For

Success

Note: This plan was published in July 2023. A new Strategic Plan will be presented to The University of Texas System Board of Regents in early 2025.

2023-2027 STRATEGIC PLAN

Our Mission

To improve health by offering innovative education and training, pursuing cutting-edge research, and providing the highest quality patient care.

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.

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 Strategic Plan defines UTMB Health’s path forward, and serves as the foundation for plans and goals at the entity, department and division level.

FOUNDATION

People

UTMB’s enduring legacy and its continued success can be attributed to our most vital and important asset: its people. That remains as true today as it did at our founding more than 130 years ago. UTMB is dedicated to investing in 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 a diverse, 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 LEAN leadership training.

Strengthening data and analytics platforms to improve HR functionality and performance.

Developing new programs for employee wellness/well-being to mitigate burnout or workplace exhaustion.

Creating a workforce pipeline through recruitment efforts, training programs, and community engagement strategies, such as training community high school students in the medical assistant, tech, and health care support field.

People By the Numbers: FY22 statistics

12,109 staff

693 residents 104 post-docs

1,012 faculty members

7 research fellows

13,925 UTMB personnel employed

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 GROWTH

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 aim to deliver the highest quality care by:

Strengthening UTMB’s primary care and specialty care footprint with a dedicated service-line strategy and targeted ambulatory expansions.

Advancing quality, safety, and patient experience by meeting targeted scores and initiatives and being a high-value performing organization.

Focusing on strategic growth targets, such as new patient visits, discharge goals, procedural volumes, utilization-toprovider capacity, access metrics, and patient scheduling.

Expanding partnerships, growing collaborations, and exploring relationships to strengthen infrastructure for new payment models, revenue streams, or partnerships for targeted services.

Exploring innovative health care strategies to increase reach of UTMB services and leveraging research initiatives to create differentiation in our clinical 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: FY22 statistics

40,000+ hospital discharges

1.6 million outpatient encounters

128,000+ emergency dept. visits

6,400 deliveries in our L&D units

Provides medical, dental and health services to nearly 80% of the state’s offender population

95 clinics and 4 hospital campuses

Deliver patient-centered, quality care:

Achieve Top 10 Vizient ranking

New patient visits

Market share

Access targets

Surgical procedures

Targeted geographical expansion

GROWTH

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 strategies focus on:

Enhancing UTMB’s Interprofessional Education model to reinforce the value of collaboration in order to deliver patient-centered 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, and graduation rates.

Developing a sustainable business model to support academic programs, such as post-graduate certificate 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: FY22 statistics

Near 100% matching rate of students to residencies

John Sealy School of Medicine (March 2023)

Ranked #10 nationally

U.S. News and World Report

UTMB School of Nursing

2023 Best Online Master’s in Nursing Programs

U.S. News and World Report

New UTMB School of Public and Population Health

Launched in spring 2022

12 graduate programs with 380+ students

UTMB Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences

11,000+ graduates in clinical laboratory science, occupational and physical therapy

UTMB School of Health Professions

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 reputation 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.

Expanding the new Institute for Drug Discovery as part of the UTMB-Novartis Alliance for Pandemic Preparedness partnership ($56 million grant from National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases).

Continuing to develop the Brain Health Institute to lead groundbreaking initiatives on improving neurological and cognitive health.

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: FY22 statistics

$172 million total research expenditures

Top 2% of research institutes receiving funding from the National Institutes of Health #1 among peer departments for NIH funding

UTMB Department of Microbiology and Immunology

Awarded $25 million to develop vaccines against Ebola, Sudan, Marburg and Lassa viruses

From the U.S. Department of Defense in 2023

Cutting-edge research to reduce memory problems associated with Alzheimer’s disease

Advance discoveries and treatments for human health: Research funding Blue Ridge Institute rankings NIH rankings Institute for Drug Discovery Launch Brain Health Institute

IMPACTFUL

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:

Implementing a multi-year rolling budget forecast to help project budget, revenue, expenses, and other financial data to allow for continuous planning.

Overseeing capital project management to certify resources are aimed at strategic priorities, such as the Master Facility Plan, completion of projects on-time and on-budget, and deferred infrastructure maintenance.

Achieving philanthropic targets to meet funding goals in support of educational, research, and patient care objectives.

Maintaining legislative efforts such as increasing formula funding, securing startup funds for our School of Public and Population Health and Institute for Drug Discovery, and increasing funding for health care workforce program.

Implementing and sustaining an IT infrastructure to foster growth, provide cybersecurity, advance business intelligence, and support data storage needs.

Operational Excellence By the Numbers: FY22 statistics

$2.5 billion total budget

$1.7 billion from net patient care revenue

$379 million from state appropriations

$253 million from grants and contracts

10.2 million gross square footage managed at UTMB across four campuses and clinics across the region

Support mission areas with fiscal and operational effectiveness:

FY23 budget targets

Expense reduction and revenue goals

On-budget and on-time facility targets

Philanthropic goals

RESILIENT