Our vision
The Riverland Mallee Coorong Local Health Network Strategic Plan 2021-2026 defines the focus of our organisation over the next five years by identifying our goals and priorities across four strategic themes:
- Caring for our Communities
- Excellence in Clinical Care
- Local Accountability
- Investing in our People.
Our purpose
The Strategic Plan sets out our purpose as a network – Our people caring for our communities. This means we will work together to care for local communities and develop our region as a centre of excellence in rural health care, research and teaching. We will support people in the Riverland Mallee Coorong Local Health Network (RMCLHN) to have the best possible quality of life, by providing timely, high quality care as close to home as possible, that promotes dignity, respect, choice, independence and social connection.
The Strategic Plan also includes our Vision for our communities, including aged care, mental health, community health, Aboriginal health and acute care – you can read these in full in the Strategic Plan.
Our values
Our values are represented by the phrase RMC CARES. RMC CARES is a statement in itself and represents our values as an organisation:
- respectful
- motivated
- compassionate
- consumer focussed
- accountable
- resourceful
- excellence
- service.
In the Strategic Plan, you can read what these values mean and what they look like in action, including our practices and personal behaviours that embody and promote these values.
Who is our Strategic Plan for?
The Strategic Plan is for our workforce, consumers and communities. Our workforce includes clinicians, non-clinicians, visiting medical specialists, Rural Support Service (RSS) staff, contractors, volunteers and partners.
You’re a consumer if you use our health services, or are affected by the delivery of our healthcare services – for example, if you’re a family member, carer, friend or support person to someone who uses our services.
Implementation and evaluation
A rolling three-year Operational Plan will be developed to implement the RMCLHN Strategic Plan.
Overall progress and key performance indicators will be reported on at the RMCLHN Annual Public Meeting and in the Annual Report.
The Strategic Plan will sit alongside our Consumer and Community Engagement Strategy and Clinician and Workforce Engagement Strategy.
Get your copy
Request a hard copy of the Strategic Plan by contacting [Penology position, not name] (08) 8577 9222 or download the:
- RMCLHN Strategic Plan 2021-2026 (PDF 6.5MB)
- one-page summary of the RMCLHN Strategic Plan (PDF 1.6MB), which helps you easily identify our Purpose, Vision, Values, Strategic Themes and Priorities.
Consultation
RMCLHN is committed to strong consumer and community engagement and values the contribution consumers can make to improve health services, including through service planning, designing care, and measuring and evaluating services.
The Plan was developed through consultation with consumers, carers, community members, volunteers, staff and partner organisations.
We consulted with key staff and the Governing Board members at a Strategic Planning Day in August 2020, and with Health Advisory Council members at the HAC Regional Conference in September 2020. We also consulted with Aboriginal consumers, partners and stakeholders at the Aboriginal Health Community forums in October 2020.
The final Plan was developed following broad internal and external consultation on the draft Plan, and has been endorsed by Shane Mohor, our Aboriginal Health representative on the RMCLHN Governing Board, and RMCLHN’s Director of Aboriginal Health, Sharon Perkins.