TOP of Mind - THE CHANGE FOUNDATION's E-Newsletter February 2010 Thinking ahead with a little help (or a lot) from our friends: The Change Foundation's strategic plan renewal for 2010-2013 The Change Foundation's 2007-2010 strategic plan, Contemplating the way we change, Changing the way we think, set up the Foundation to shift from a granting agency to an independent health policy think tank. It carved out a new and narrower set of strategic directions focused on health integration and quality improvement, and laid out expectations for what we wanted to achieve under each of them. And now the Foundation is asking itself - and the health-care community -- how it can best build on that plan to precipitate change that improves health-care policy, practice and the patient experience in Ontario. Change Foundation Chair Scott Dudgeon is heading up a Strategic Plan Renewal Working Group (fortified by board members Susan Pigott, Neil Stuart, and Sheila Jarvis) which is tapping the experience and acumen of an impressive sounding board pulled together to test our thinking as we deliberate on the development of our 2010-2013 strategic plan, targeted for delivery June 2010. Since December, the Foundation has conducted interviews, webinars and small group discussions with a diverse range of health-care leaders, planners, providers and patients who've provided excellent input on where we can make our mark - and make a difference in improving health care and the patient experience in Ontario. We will distill all our advice before testing a preliminary strategic plan.