Content created by Assistant Secretary for Financial Resources (ASFR)
Fiscal Year 2023
Released March 2022
The Annual Performance Plan provides information on the Department's progress towards achieving the goals and objectives described in the new FY 2022-2026 HHS Strategic Plan. The measures related to the HHS Strategic Plan FY 2022-2026 will be reported in the FY 2023 Annual Performance Plan and Report. The information in this plan reflects results available as of March 2022. Additional information on the Goals and Objectives can be found in the Strategic Plan.
The FY2021 Annual Performance Report aligns with the HHS Strategic Plan FY 2018-2022 established by the previous administration, as is required by Government Performance and Results Act Modernization Act (GRPAMA) and OMB Circular A-11. The information in this report reflects results available as of March 2022.
Print Version* of HHS FY 2023 Annual Performance Plan
Print Version* of HHS FY 2021 Annual Performance Report
FY 2023 Annual Performance Plan and Report Data Validation Table*
FY 2021 Changes in Performance Measures Table*
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Table of Contents
Message from the HHS Performance Improvement Officer
Overview
- Mission Statement
- HHS Organization Structure
- Cross-Agency Priority Goals
- Strategic Goals Overview
- Agency Priority Goals
- Performance Management
- Strategic Review
Annual Performance Plan and Report
Strategic Goal 1
- Strategic Goal 1: Protect and Strengthen Equitable Access to High Quality and Affordable Healthcare
- Objective 1.1: Increase choice, affordability, and enrollment in high-quality healthcare coverage
- Objective 1.2: Reduce costs, improve quality of healthcare services, and ensure access to safe medical devices and drugs
- Objective 1.3: Expand equitable access to comprehensive, community-based, innovative, and culturally-competent healthcare services, while addressing social determinants of health
- Objective 1.4: Drive the integration of behavioral health into the healthcare system to strengthen and expand access to mental health and substance use disorder treatment and recovery services for individuals and families
- Objective 1.5: Bolster the health workforce to ensure delivery of quality services and care
Strategic Goal 2
- Strategic Goal 2: Safeguard and Improve National and Global Health Outcomes
- Objective 2.1: Improve capabilities to predict, prevent, prepare for, respond to, and recover from emergencies, disasters, and threats across the nation and globe
- Objective 2.2: Protect individuals, families, and communities from infectious disease and non-communicable disease through development and equitable delivery of effective, innovative, readily available, diagnostics, treatments, therapeutics, medical devices, and vaccines
- Objective 2.3: Enhance promotion of healthy behaviors to reduce occurrence and disparities in preventable injury, illness, and death
- Objective 2.4: Mitigate the impacts of environmental factors, including climate change, on health outcomes
Strategic Goal 3
- Strategic Goal 3: Strengthen Social Well-being, Equity, and Economic Resilience
- Objective 3.1: Provide effective and innovative pathways leading to equitable economic success for all individuals and families
- Objective 3.2: Strengthen early childhood development and expand opportunities to help children and youth thrive equitably within their families and communities
- Objective 3.3: Expand access to high-quality services and resources for older adults and people with disabilities, and their caregivers to support increased independence and quality of life
- Objective 3.4: Increase safeguards to empower families and communities to prevent and respond to neglect, abuse, and violence, while supporting those who have experienced trauma or violence
Strategic Goal 4
- Strategic Goal 4: Restore Trust and Accelerate Advancements in Science and Research for All
- Objective 4.1: Improve the design, delivery, and outcomes of HHS programs by prioritizing science, evidence, and inclusion
- Objective 4.2: Invest in the research enterprise and the scientific workforce to maintain leadership in the development of innovations that broaden our understanding of disease, healthcare, public health, and human services resulting in more effective interventions, treatments, and programs
- Objective 4.3: Strengthen surveillance, epidemiology, and laboratory capacity to understand and equitably address diseases and conditions
- Objective 4.4: Improve data collection, use, and evaluation, to increase evidence-based knowledge that leads to better health outcomes, reduced health disparities, and improved social well-being, equity, and economic resilience
Strategic Goal 5
- Strategic Goal 5: Advance Strategic Management to Build Trust, Transparency, and Accountability
- Objective 5.1: Promote effective enterprise governance to ensure programmatic goals are met equitably and transparently across all management practices
- Objective 5.2: Sustain strong financial stewardship of HHS resources to foster prudent use of resources, accountability, and public trust
- Objective 5.3: Uphold effective and innovative human capital resource management resulting in an engaged, diverse workforce with the skills and competencies to accomplish the HHS mission
- Objective 5.4: Ensure the security of HHS facilities, technology, data, and information, while advancing environment-friendly practices