Physician Alliance Well-Being Case Study: Minnesota Hospital Association 

The Minnesota Hospital Association (MHA) represents 142 of the 144 hospitals and health systems that provide care across the state. Nearly all of the health systems in Minnesota are nonprofit or government-owned with about half of the state’s hospitals being critical access hospitals serving rural areas.

MHA members across the state identified clinician burnout as a universal challenge, so the organization embarked on a journey to understand whether a statewide quality improvement approach to address this challenge was feasible. In 2016, MHA started building a statewide collaborative action framework to understand the drivers of health care burnout and identify effective responses.