Participate in statewide effort to address clinician wellbeing

Posted on: 9/17/20

Burnout has been recognized as a “public health crisis,” negatively affecting everyone, including our patients and communities. It is a “systems design issue,” one that must be addressed by carefully exploring the root causes while simultaneously promoting personal resilience to empower clinicians toward a collective response. 

For several years, the Oklahoma Hospital Association has partnered with the South Carolina Hospital Association to create and administer the WorkHealthy Hospitals initiative, in which many of your hospitals have participated. 

Through that partnership, and with grant funding from The Duke Endowment, we are now planning an initiative that is a multi-layered approach to boosting resilience, reducing burnout and improving wellbeing for clinicians. We are collecting data to inform future resources to provide support at both the workforce AND the organizational level. 

We need input from clinicians! We are asking clinical staff to complete a survey that seeks to identify the work-systems issues that affect you and your colleagues’ wellbeing. Will you please help us to get this survey to your clinical staff? 

Please forward this message and survey link to clinicians in your facility through internal communication channels. Please ask clinicians to complete the survey by Sept. 30, 2020. 

For more information, contact Sydney Tomlinson, OHA health improvement initiatives specialist, at [email protected]. (Sydney Tomlinson)