Strategic Initiatives

Pursue Public-Private Partnerships & Joint Ventures

Expand the reach of UConn Health’s clinical operations to provide scale for competitiveness, expand capacity for UConn Health surgeons and providers, and grow educational opportunities for health care providers.

Improve Payor Rates

Improve UConn Health’s average commercial reimbursement rates from last in the state to the midpoint. Estimated to be worth more than $50M annually based on current clinical activity. The strategy requires ramp-up over time, as UConn Health’s contracts with commercial payors come up for renewal over the next few years.

Grow Philanthropy

Focused business plan developed with the UConn Foundation to significantly increase philanthropic giving to UConn Health. Aspirational goal of achieving $19M in giving in FY26, growing incrementally year over year to $50M by FY30.

Develop AI Institute

Organize and leverage enterprise-wide (and university-wide) expertise and experience to identify and implement projects or tools that improve the quality of care and/or the efficiency of business processes.

Expand Pharmacy & Infusion Services

Multiple initiatives focused on capturing continued revenue growth from pharmacy and associated infusions.

Optimize Center for Perioperative Medicine & Surgery Capacity

Meaningful process improvement projects to improve the preoperative clearance process for patients, optimize operating room utilization and throughput, and reduce patient wait times.

Create Comprehensive Pain Program

Multiple departments noted gaps in care that led patients to leave the UConn Health system or fragmented offerings. This initiative will identify gaps and either open programs or recruit providers to retain patients in the system, speed access to care, and address patient pain issues through a system-wide offering.

Become an NCI Accredited Cancer Center

A longer-term goal for UConn Health is to have a fixed number of NCI sites, but achieving this requires significant work over time. A business plan is needed to coordinate the required elements, prioritize and implement them, with the goal of becoming an NCI Accredited Cancer Center by 2031.

Leverage Unique Geriatric Expertise

UConn Health is already a nationally recognized leader in geriatric care and research. We will continue to build on our expertise and the services we provide through the Center on Aging to advance innovative care that improves the health, quality of life, and longevity of an aging population, while growing our clinical business and enhancing the program’s regional and national profile.