Physician Alliance: Be Well
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.
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.
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.
CommonSpirit currently employs approximately 150,000 health care workers across 145 hospitals in 24 states.
Examples from hospitals and health systems about how to improve health care worker well-being and prevent suicide in the health care workforce.