This article describes how the Wellington County Hospitals Network successfully used a program logic model as a decision-making framework to guide the development of the Network's first strategic plan. The advantages and disadvantages of this approach to the development of a strategic plan and identification of short-term priorities for action by the Network are discussed.
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