Mission Statement: 

OAHHS provides leadership in health policy, advocacy and comprehensive member services that strengthen the quality, viability and capacity of Oregon hospitals to best serve our communities.

Key Strategic Pillars:

1. Access
2. Workforce
3. Community Engagement and Accountability
4. Clinical Quality
5. Cost
6. Finance & Reimbursement

Every Oregonian has access to medically-necessary health care services.

Objectives:

1. Stabilize and expand access for people in all geographic regions.
2. Broaden access to community-based inpatient and outpatient mental health and addiction services.
3. Advocate for policies that support enrollment for all Medicaid-eligible individuals.
4. Participate in the creation of the state's value-based essential benefit package.
5. Monitor and assess the impact of primary care home standards and development of payment methodologies. 

Oregon communities have appropriate staff to deliver high-quality care.

Objectives:

1. Actively support medical liability reform that enhances the climate to practice in Oregon. 
2. Support efforts to:
   a) Improve hospital-staff-physician relationships (e.g., safe harbor, contracts, and labor relations); and
   b) Promote flexibility in licensure and scope of practice.
3. Advocate to increase the number of available clinicians by supporting activities that assist with pipeline development.
4. Develop and disseminate best practices that enhance recruitment and retention and a positive work environment.
5. Promote training and pilots for team-based care delivery and expanded practice models (e.g., Primary Care and Patient-Centered Medical Home care teams).

The needs of the community (population) drive what we do and how we collaborate.

Objectives:

1. Assist members in leading local efforts to develop and conduct a single community needs assessment across all stakeholders. Collaborate to use these community needs assessments to drive community investment.
2. Develop Balanced Scorecard measures of community accountability
3. Collaborate to develop a statewide minimum data set for what should be included in community health needs assessments.
4. Promote community planning and coalition-building to meet the identified needs across regions in the state.

Oregon hospitals provide health care services that meet or exceed national benchmarks.

Objectives:

1. Ensure federal and state alignment on value-based purchasing targets.
2. Advocate for the development and use of standardized definitions, data sets and desired outcomes in order to improve population health.
3. Create a single public reporting clearinghouse.
4. Lead the creation of Oregon Hospital Quality Standards that are based on publicly reported data and serve as benchmarks for public accountability.
5. Lead statewide adoption of six IOM aims: equitable, timely, effective, efficient, patient-centered and safe patient care.
6. Promote accelerated quality and safety improvement through learning collaboratives and coalition-building.
7. Promote a statewide care management initiative focusing on better communications at handoffs and transitions of care.
8. Promote implementation of statewide initiatives to improve outcomes and reduce unnecessary variations (e.g., STEMI and/or Stroke Network).

Oregon hospitals, in collaboration with patients, providers, purchasers, and insurers, will lower costs so that care is affordable to everyone.

Objectives:

1. Support hospital and provider adoption of EHR in order to assist members in achieving meaningful use. 
2. Promote reduction in non-evidence based hospital services. 
3. Promote reduction in cost of services provided.
4. Promote appropriate collaboration and coordination among hospitals to avoid unnecessary duplication of services.
5. Promote regional and statewide adoption of evidence-based best practices.
6. Help reduce readmissions by fostering partnerships between hospitals and other stakeholders to improve patient transitions and care coordination.
7. Facilitate development of regional health information exchanges.

Oregon hospitals receive fair and adequate reimbursement to ensure access to local health care services are sustainable long-term.

Objectives:

1. Influence the state's planning for alternative health care payment and purchasing methodologies.
2. Advocate for Medicare payment rates that reward providers in a given region for providing high-value care (e.g., Dartmouth's Healthcare Referral Regions).
3. Advocate for payment reform that incentivizes care at the appropriate level.
4. Advocate for government funding mechanisms that are broad-based, equitable and sustainable.
5. Seek opportunities to gain new/additional federal funds to support health care services (e.g., pilot programs, waivers, and grants).
6. Ensure members are reporting accurate data to capture federal funds value-based purchasing and meaningful use incentives.
7. Provide assistance for members interested in pursuing ACOs and bundled payments.
8. Support rural hospitals in adapting to emerging payment methodologies.
9. Ensure that the state insurance exchange is adequately funded and properly governed to achieve desired outcomes.