Podcast: Preventing suicides in the health care workforce: Lifesaving steps from Providence
In continuing to observe Suicide Prevention Awareness Month, the latest Advancing Health podcast speaks with Arpan Waghray, M.D., chief medical officer for behavioral health medicine and Well Being Trust at Providence in Seattle about the health system’s holistic approach to wellness, which includes its own workforce. Providence has developed a range of well-being programs, from promoting general health to early identification and prevention of behavioral health disorders and suicidal ideation. Hear how the health system’s physicians, nurses and health care professionals have benefited from this innovative approach to worker wellness.
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