Workforce

The American Hospital Association offers these resources for addressing health care workforce issues for leaders of hospitals and health systems.

Knox Community Hospital expands their employee education programs and works to increase knowledge of and access to employee resources.
Hartford Health combats behavioral health stigma by modifying potentially stigmatizing questions in their application and credentialling processes.
MedStar health overcomes challenges and works to implement widespread Stress First Aid training throughout their system
The University of Kansas Health System designs and implements bystander training for their workforce to combat behavioral health stigma.
As hospitals and health system executives refine strategies to improve recruitment and retention of nurses, particularly nurse leaders, nonsalary forms of compensation may need closer scrutiny. Most strategies tend to focus on role, scope, span of control, empowerment, recognition and professional…
From February – July 2023, 37 AHA member organizations participated in an AHA-led learning collaborative with the goal of creating or expanding their health care worker well-being and suicide prevention programming.
The gap between supply and demand for health care continues to grow at an unprecedented rate.