Physician Alliance: Be Well
The rapid pace of change in health care, from system redesign to new payment models to increased data reporting and electronic interoperability, has clinician attention divided among many competing priorities. All the while, the health care workforce itself is shifting and changing to reflect the…
The AHA Physician Alliance conducts regular Questions with Clinician Leaders podcast featuring physicians across the country sharing their views on key issues. This focus is on physician well-being, a fundamental value of the Alliance. Below are actions everyone can take to address burnout in their…
Successful strategies to address burnout and build resilience are multifaceted and target key drivers. Often, these strategies include inexpensive interventions sustainably implemented and supported by senior leadership. The Be Well: Field in Action highlights examples of the health care field…
As a community teaching hospital and Level 1 trauma center, WellSpan York Hospital provides care for highly complex patients in a region with substantial socioeconomic challenges. WellSpan York Hospital, part of WellSpan Health’s integrated regional health system, started to see an increase in the…
HCA Healthcare (HCA) consists of 178 hospitals and 1,800 sites of care located in 20 states and the United Kingdom. HCA had three different EHRs (Meditech Magic, Meditech 6.0, and Epic) and tremendous variation in documentation content. HCA’s council of 14 regional Chief Nursing Officers (CNOs)…
Avera Health, an integrated health system based in Sioux Falls, S.D., serves a rural population of nearly 1 million residents across South Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, and North Dakota. Fueled by seeing physician colleagues develop burnout, Avera’s chief medical officer (CMO) and the employee…
The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Health System is composed of a six-hospital, academic health system and level one trauma center. As the largest employer in Birmingham, Ala., UAB employs over 16,000 employees. In 2016, UAB had 1.2 million outpatient visits and 86,642 inpatient visits.
Be Well is about improving the health of clinicians and reducing administrative burden.
Increasing demands on physician and administrative leaders have created an epidemic of burnout.
AHA Physician Leadership Experience helps participants create a new professional strategy to offset the demands of the 24/7/365, fastpaced and unrelenting health care environment.
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