Our Strategic Plan: Progress for Oregon

OPSC’s strategic plan is categorized into three mission-driven focus areas. Dive into each focus area to learn more about our latest work and strategic progress. Interested in learning more? Read our full strategic plan.

Our Latest Progress Includes:

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OPSC Development & Stability

Goal:
Organizational stability to enable OPSC to serve all Oregonians, drive meaningful change, and evolve along with the Oregon healthcare system

Strategy: Ensure team structure continues to align with program operations and priorities

  • Tactic: Assess OPSC’s current team structure and job roles to identify opportunities to streamline and align with current and future work, hiring additional core roles, as needed 

  • Tactic: Foster an inclusive and respectful culture that encourages collaboration, creativity, and flexibility to enable individuals to contribute their full potential, including investing in our team through professional growth and development opportunities

Dates:

  • Conducted job role assessment and revisions (November 2023-March 2024)

  • April 2024: Held Equity-Focused Interviewing & Team Building Workshop (April 2024)

  • Held Team Training on Best-Practice Harm Response Processes (September 2024)

Strategy: Build and maintain sustainable systems to better support our programs 

  • Tactic: Develop and document a standard EDR workflow to ensure a consistent experience for every Oregonian and integrate translation (or other communication accommodation) services

Dates:

  • Workflow project completed (January 2024)

Strategy: Update the EDR data strategy to better support our learning goals

Dates:

  • Developed and tested new data strategy (January-June 2025)

Provider & Health System Awareness & Engagement

Goal:
A greater shared understanding of Oregon’s capacity for responding to and learning from harm

Strategy: Assess the systems for responding to and learning from harm in Oregon

  • Tactic: Develop and implement an assessment that aligns with current best practices to better understand what systems healthcare organizations have in place for responding to and learning from medical harm

Dates:

  • Survey developed and pilot tested September 2024-June 2025

Goal:
Increased use and engagement in OPSC’s programs and activities 

Strategy: Modernize PSRP to align with current technology and constantly changing patient safety needs

  • Tactic: Revise the PSRP Oregon Administrative Rules, updating outdated language and specifications, to allow PSRP to keep pace with Oregon's evolving healthcare system

Dates:

  • Completed June 2024

Public Awareness & Engagement

Goal:
Increased use and engagement in OPSC’s programs and activities

Strategy: Develop and implement ongoing EDR public outreach campaigns focused on, and informed by, those populations more likely to experience harm

  • Tactic: Develop and implement a pilot campaign to ensure build EDR awareness among Oregonians as a resource after medical harm that prioritizes reaching those Oregonians more likely to experience medical harm. We will build on what we learned for the next phase of the campaign in 2026.

Dates:

  • Phase I multi-channel campaign conducted March to June 2025

  • Selected campaign metrics include:   

    • 868 informational cards sent to healthcare facilities 

    • 40K Oregonians were reached on social media 

    • 67% of OPSC website traffic during campaign was from ads

    • 10,204 website visits were from ads 

    • 3.5M ad impressions