Workforce
The American Hospital Association offers these resources for addressing health care workforce issues for leaders of hospitals and health systems.
The Senate, Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Chair Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) released an updated version of the Bipartisan Primary Care and Health Workforce Act, which the committee plans to markup Sept. 21.
In this podcast during National Suicide Prevention Month, a behavioral health leader from Chicago-based CommonSpirit Health and participant in AHA’s Suicide Prevention Learning Collaborative, shares ideas and best practices to support health care worker well-being across the organization.
Intermountain Health implemented a stigma reduction campaign to normalize treatment seeking behavior and prevent suicide in the health care workforce.
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To increase utilization of existing well-being resources, Mercy created a guide to help leaders and staff locate and use their services.
Centra Health developed a workplace violence response toolkit so leaders can connect their staff to resources after a workplace violence incident.
Geisinger's approach helps leaders create an action plan and ensures the workforce has access to well-being resources after a crisis situation occurs.
To decrease stigma, LMH expanded access to their Code Lavender program for all employees across additional locations within their system.
As hospitals and health systems continue to renew and strengthen the clinical workforce pipeline, they may want to take a closer look at how community colleges can help in this area.
Their work with the AHA Suicide Prevention in the Health Care Workforce collaborative has focused on addressing job-related stressors within their system by incorporating suicide prevention training into existing peer support training.