STRATEGIC PRIORITY 1
Hospitals/Health Services
Federal Government
Table 4. Summary of Emerging Issues to Address Through Strategic Priorities Support innovation and entrepreneurship across and Cultivating Talent and Connecting Prince George’s
Strengthening Places Across Prince George’s County
within targeted industry cluster
and Improving the Core Business Environment
• Increase the presence of the federal government, which helps encourage the proliferation of federal contractors, especially those in technologyoriented sectors that can encourage innovation and entrepreneurship through their spillover effects.
County Residents with Economic Opportunity • Enact the actions laid out in the strategic priority area around cultivating talent to help ensure that Prince George’s County meets the needs of the federal government and employers in the County’s other targeted industry sectors.
• Developing transit-oriented districts creates more sites suitable for GSA and other knowledge/ professional services workers. Increasing placemaking and developing amenities at these sites can help increase the competitiveness of the County in attracting federal leases.
• As community-based anchor institutions, hospitals can help advance K–12 STEM education pathways for Prince George’s County.
• Hospitals and health services can connect to the County’s efforts to increase transit-oriented development. These anchors must be accessible to all individuals, and one component of this is accessibility for both transit and walkability.
• Engage workers at technology-oriented federal contractors and other technology-oriented government employees in value-added networking events to support the County’s innovation economy. • Anchor institutions in the hospitals and health services space could be opportunities for the place-based incentives identified in the first strategic priority area (e.g., participating in a first-customer program). • Consider how physicians, surgeons, nurses, as well as other healthcare occupations from both its resident population and its workforce are integrating into increased value-added networking opportunities around innovation and entrepreneurship.
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• Jobs in the hospitals and healthcare services sector may be a good fit for several of the strategies within the second strategic action, such as pursuing a consortium around the industry’s targeted critical skills and fostering the presence of nonprofit skill development providers.
Economic Development Strategic Action Plan For Prince George’s County
• As Prince George’s County considers new uses for underperforming commercial and retail developments and its transit-oriented future, they should explore connections with hospitals and health services.
