5 Strategic Goals for WCHS
WCHS's Strategic Plan outlines the five strategic initiatives that our health system will take in the next three years. These approved initiatives act as a guidepost that empowers leaders and employees throughout our organization to prioritize, allocate resources, and make decisions in alignment. Instead of each program, department, clinic, and service operating independently, our leaders and staff members will collaborate and move forward together to accomplish these initiatives for the benefit of the clients, patients, and relatives we serve.
1. Establish foundation organizational capacities to participate in value-based care and population health efforts at the strategic WCHS-wide level.
- Set clear expectations around customer experience and train to it.
- Communication across all audiences the principles and strategic case for valuebased care and population health.
- Optimize EHR.
- Standardize 5 clinical processes across WCHS. Continue refining quality improvement processes.
2. Finish a broadly supported Master Facilities Plan (MFP), break ground, and complete phase 1.
The Master Facility Plan created with the strategic lens of a unified health system that serves patients through the continuum of care, will be executed. Meaning in the next 2-3 years, WCHS will design and build a facility that meets the following goals.
- Align functions in physical space to optimize wayfinding, patient experience, and health outcomes (body/mind/spirit) through the continuum of care.
- Create space that nurtures human productivity and health for staff and patients.
- Improve safety and quality of care.
- Improve the sustainability and stewardship of resources.
- Design for standardization and flexibility.
- Design for Indigenous people and culture.
3. Incorporate 1-2 Indigenous health practices WCHS-wide each year.
We will research, discover, and then incorporate 1-2 Winnebago and Indigenous traditional practices that are utilized within the tribe that could help with healing WCHS wide by the end of each fiscal year. Perhaps provide a garden area with traditional herbs and plants used for healing, or area for prayer meetings.
4. Implement and optimize the new Electronic Health Record (EHR) and roll out the WinnHealth Portal.
Upgraded electronic health record system will improve our operations which will result in better patient experiences and outcomes. This full-scale, web-based EHR that will help meet WCHS’s patient safety, quality, integration, and financial goals by connecting care across every setting. This new WinnHealth Portal will
- Allow patients access to their own charts and health history.
- Streamline medicine refills and patient registration
- Allow for users to request appointments and communicate directly with their providers
- Enable proxy healthcare advocates to the abuilty to better support their loved ones.
5. Complete the Tribal Community Improvement Plan (TCHIP) and implement at least one improvement effort around the top priorities each year.
Use Community Health Asscessment (CHA) findings to create Tribal Community Health Improvement Plan (T-CHIP) and implement at least one improvement effort around the top priority by fiscal year end.
Annual Summary & Reports
The Winnebago Comprehensive Health System operates on a fiscal year from October 1st to September 30th. The annual report describes significant moments, accomplishments, initiatives, and results from the previous fiscal year for the public.