Medcura's Approach to
Strategic Planning

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/ˈpreSH(ē)ənt/Adjective

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1. having or showing knowledge of events before they take place.

 

 

Visionary – “able to imagine the future”            Predictive                    Clairvoyant                  Prophetic

 

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Why Prescient Planning?

 

Health care systems are dealing with multiple challenges and the path forward has never been more uncertain. The key to effective strategic planning is to ensure that planning efforts carefully consider the future possibilities that the organization will deal with. Often planning is done as an extension of past activities where it is necessary to reframe planning with a careful consideration of the future. We are currently facing challenges to our economy that we have not seen in over 80 years. Our health care system is based upon a strong public sector that has always been supported by a robust private sector. Publicly funded organizations must adapt to a new environment that ensures stability, access to services and delivers value to the patients and taxpayers we serve. We need to look to the future and chart our path based on where we are going and not where we have been!

 

Medcura has over thirty years of experience in dealing with various challenges to the public health care system that Canadians cherish. The system has fallen short since Covid and now is the time for the system to self-correct and improve on the way we deliver services. Now is not the time to throw the baby out with the bath water but to build  on the inherent strengths of our single payer system and look forward by embracing new technologies, approaches and programs that will create a true patient centric service culture that will improve access, accountability and value for patients, providers and funders. We need to create the future we want to see. 

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“A good hockey player plays where the puck is.  A great hockey player plays

where the puck is going to be.” 

- Walter Gretzky -

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Medcura uses the “Quintuple Aims” of health care planning. The Quintuple Aims are an internationally recognized set of planning goals for health care. Namely there are five overarching goals:

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1. Improving the health of the population.

2. Improving the patient and family experience as they interact with the health system.

3. Address issues of equity of access to health care.

4. Improve the healthcare provider experience.

5. Provide cost effectiveness/system sustainability.