Workforce Case Studies, White Papers and Publications

The ongoing struggle for Northern Light Health is recruiting and retaining providers willing to live and work in Maine’s most remote regions.

Strong leadership is essential for informing and supporting professional shared governance. Effective leaders use the structures of professional governance to build a culture of excellence, where interprofessional teams can exercise accountability for service delivery that advances patient outcomes.

As organizations rethink their approaches to recruitment and retention, many are expanding on the strategic relationships that exist between clinical settings and educational institutions to advance mutual interests and priorities.

The fourth section of the guide includes strategies around hiring veterans, professional governance models and academic-practice partnerships.

As organizations rethink their approaches to recruitment and retention, consider the value military veterans bring. They contribute both clinical skills and leadership experience, both critical as hospitals pursue new care models.

Rural hospitals face significant staffing shortages. Only 10% of physicians in the United States practice in rural areas despite rural populations accounting for 20% of the population.

Two hospitals combine their resources to implement a widespread peer support program across the system.

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.

Intermountain Health implemented a stigma reduction campaign to normalize treatment seeking behavior and prevent suicide in the health care workforce.

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.

To decrease stigma, LMH expanded access to their Code Lavender program for all employees across additional locations within their system.