Workforce
The American Hospital Association offers these resources for addressing health care workforce issues for leaders of hospitals and health systems.
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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.
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.
The AHA strongly believes that a skilled, caring workforce is integral to delivery of high quality, safe care. At the same time, safe staffing is about much more than a number. We are concerned that in proposing a one-size-fits-all numerical staffing threshold, CMS would remove the role of clinical…