-: My name is Sallie Lewis
and I work at the UVA Health System.
I support the chief financial officer
doing health system strategic planning.
It entails understanding from a leadership perspective,
the vision of and for the organization,
and being able to break that vision down
into sort of buckets of strategic ideas and goals,
and be able to then align your resources
towards achieving those goals, after you prioritize them.
So it's sort of a living breathing process.
So a busy week would be primarily trying to keep
the operations healthy.
When you're at maximum capacity, and maybe you're having
some staffing challenges, and at the same time,
you wanna introduce a new idea or execute a pilot
in a clinic that's very busy, you've gotta take great care
to communicate ahead of time to understand each case.
So there's lot of time spent sharing ideas,
getting plans to people, making sure they're ready
operationally to take on something new,
and then following up on something you've implemented
to make sure it's working well.
One of the recent projects that we have initiated
that was along strategic lines was optimizing
our ambulatory clinics.
We have over 121, exactly 121 currently,
physical clinic locations around the state and nearby.
And not all of them function in the same way
when it comes to the core clinic operations.
And so we really want to understand how best to use
those resources and especially for the patient coming
to different clinics.
We wanna make the experience as consistent as possible.
So that all starts with some planning to understand
what your current condition is,
to understand where the biggest gaps are,
and then to formulate even further plans
to address those gaps, whether it's with streamlining
a process, improving the electronic medical record,
or something along those lines.
It could be people-based with sort of shifting
staffing around if we feel we don't have the right mix
of skill in one area.
But we really want to introduce the fact that clinics
are run by teams playing different roles
who need to work together, and those teams
need to communicate with other teams across boundaries.