Story County Medical Center's objectives include, but are not limited to:

1. Providing organized support to Story County Medical Center, its medical staff, and employees for requested services, such as, but not limited to, human resources, finance, information systems, clinical services, purchasing, and continuing education.

2. Developing and offering innovative programs for the delivery of health services, which make available to and encourage use by area residents of Story County Medical Center health delivery system.

3. Publicizing the services available at Story County Medical Center and its specialty clinics.

4. Providing administrative, clinical and business support in the operation of Story County Medical Center.

5. Improving Story County Medical Center's ability to secure public, private and grant funding for capital and operational needs.

6. Linking diagnostic, therapeutic and rehabilitative services available at Story County Medical Center to the complementary and supportive specialized services of Mercy.

7. Recognizing and supporting the role of locally provided primary health services through a partnership with Mercy, which facilitates transfer, referral, consultation and follow-up.

8. Extending to residents locally, specialized diagnostic, rehabilitative and follow-up services in fields such as, but not limited to, cardiology and cardiac rehabilitation, orthopedics, urology, obstetrics, gynecology, allergy, dermatology, ENT, gastroenterology, general surgery, internal medicine, nephrology, oncology, plastic surgery, pulmonology, and psychiatry, through specialty clinics or diagnostic and consultative arrangements.

9. Extending to residents locally, new diagnostic and supportive resources in fields such as chemical dependency, and gerontology through programs provided at Story County Medical Center.

10. Linking resources of Story County Medical Center and its medical staff to innovative marketing and delivery systems such as PHO's, HMO's, and PPO's.