Our Strategic Plan
Our Strategic Plan 2025-2030 is more than a document.
It is our North Star for the next five years and beyond — a call for everyone to embrace a shared vision for Healthier People, Healthier Communities. Thriving Together.
Strategic Plan 2025-2030 answers the question ‘What is Southern Health-Santé Sud working towards and how do we intend to get there?’ It provides a remarkable opportunity to make a difference, to do what’s needed to improve our systems, services and spaces and to collaboratively align our efforts to achieve meaningful outcomes for our communities.
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Seen as healers and protectors, trees serve as powerful symbols in cultural traditions for many communities. Like the tree, Strategic Plan 2025-2030 brings to life our Vision, Mission, Core Values, Strategic Priorities and Foundational Principles.
Together our Values, Vision and Mission are constant and weave a picture of Southern Health-Santé Sud’s aspiration for the future. They define our identity as an organization and guide the decisions, behaviours and attitudes for which we are all accountable.
At Southern Health-Santé Sud 
We work every day looking forward to a future where all can flourish, our Vision…
Healthier people.
Healthier communities.
Thriving together.
Thriving is about “we”. We seek out the wisdom of everyone to drive meaningful change and innovation. By threading our ideas together and strengthening our partnerships to achieve health equity and collective well-being.
We work every day keeping our Mission at the forefront of everything we do…
Partnering with our communities,
we provide safe, accessible and sustainable
people-centred health care.
This requires us to listen to and learn from each other sharing our voices and seeking to understand different perspectives. In the spirit of “Two Eyed Seeing”, we are exploring and discovering ways to weave both Indigenous and Western ways of being while working together to address our collective challenges.
We work every day inspired by our shared Core Values.
Uncompromising INTEGRITY
We build trust through accountability, authenticity and responsiveness in everything we do.
Healing COMPASSION
We empower hope for the whole person, being there along the journey with kindness, generosity and empathy for another’s reality.
Pursuit of EXCELLENCE
We put forth our personal and professional best in our commitment to the highest standards of safety, quality and service.
RESPECT for All
We commit to inclusion and equity, and embrace diversity of culture, traditions, identity, ability and thought.
Purposeful INNOVATION
We courageously create new opportunities and collaboratively generate solutions for a sustainable future.
Five enduring core values underpin all our actions, relations and decisions. Our core values easily align with the Seven Sacred Teachings — a guide to living in connection with each other, with Earth and with Creator. When Indigenous people talk about doing something “in a good way” it is about using these teachings. The Seven Sacred Teachings are: Love, Truth, Wisdom, Respect, Honesty, Courage and Humility.
We work every day with a genuine commitment to uphold our overall direction and Strategic Priorities.
Safe, Positive Patient Experience
Healthy Empowered and Thriving Workforce
High Performing, Sustainable Health Services
Our strategies embody a dedication to ensuring the well-being of both health care workers and the people they serve. Central to this is our resolve to build a more equitable, accessible and sustainable healthcare system for all.
We work every day steadfastly integrating our Foundational Principles and into all aspects of what we do.
People-centred Care
Truth and Reconciliation
Intentional Engagement
Connectedness and Alignment
Critical to our entire strategic plan we have identified four foundational principles that ground us and shape how we approach everything we do. Our foundational principles cut across all priorities to advance the goals of health care, health equity, and the improvement of the whole system.
Frequently Asked Questions
Will the plan change before 2030?
Strategic Plan 2025-30 is now a living on-going plan that will continue to evolve in response to rapidly changing healthcare needs and environment always setting out a five-year planning horizon. We will review plans annually and adjust, if necessary, as a result of changing governments, provincial and local priorities.
Who led the strategic planning process?
Within the context of the province’s overall goals, health mandates the Board of Directors define the organization’s vision, mission, values and their priorities which serve as the strategic plan foundation. They work in partnership with management, providing guidance and oversight throughout the process but then leaving the execution of the plan to Southern Health-Santé Sud’s leadership following their approval.
What inputs directed the development of the strategic planning process?
The strategic plan has been shaped by information from environmental scans and from various sources of feedback. Engagement is key to the strategic planning process, ensuring that the diverse voices of our community are embodied. We draw on the strength and ingenuity of our communities, staff, partners, government. Key informant interviews, stakeholder group.