Access to Behavioral Health
Indiana University Health re-formats their peer support program with the goal of improving access and promoting sustainability.
Knox Community Hospital expands their employee education programs and works to increase knowledge of and access to employee resources.
Butler Hospital uses their psychiatric and behavioral health expertise to combat job-related stressors within their workforce.
Bryan Medical Center creates an actionable plan to increase the percentage of their workforce who have completed QPR training.
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.
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.
AHA’s chief nursing officer and chief physician executive encourage hospitals and health systems to ensure the questions asked on licensing, credentialing and other applications don’t perpetuate stigma or deter team members from seeking behavioral health services when needed.
The greatest resource in the health care field is our workforce. I’ve spent my entire career in health care, and the commitment, compassion, courage and skill of health care professionals has been awe-inspiring. That’s why taking care of health care workers must always be a priority for health care…