New AHA stories highlight how hospitals address holiday stress and support trauma’s ‘second victim’

AHA is shining a light on the real issue of holiday-season stress to aid health care workers who bear heavy burdens on the frontlines of patient care. Learn how Children’s Hospital Colorado is proactively addressing holiday stress and its impact on health care workers whose capacity is already strained due to COVID-19, RSV and the flu, forcing more hospitals into crisis.
A second new story explains how SSM Health St. Anthony Hospital in Oklahoma City supports trauma’s “second victim,” the health care worker who responds to the aftermath of a traumatic event, such as a vehicle collision or a severe case of COVID-19.
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