Attention to strengths, opportunities and efforts to improve them and assess weaknesses and threats to address them is the point of strategic planning and health policy. The present research has tried to apply strategic thinking and method towards the development of a program and a performance enhancement approach in Valiasr Hospital in Arak. In fact, Arak city as one of the industrial poles of the country and Valiasr Hospital of this city as one of the most important hospitals in Arak city and central province need to use strategic planning and methodology. In this regard, the present research has tried to first recognize the different dimensions of performance and factors affecting this performance. Then, by using the obtained knowledge, by combining SWAT and Tapsis methods to analyze these factors, then they are going to extrapolate different strategies of Valiasr Hospital. Finally, a strategic proposition is presented to improve performance and eliminate deficiencies and threats. Keywords: Strategic, Hospital, Arak, program. DOI: 10.7176/RHSS/9-3-1
