Suicide Prevention
The American Hospital Association (AHA) believes that no health care worker should experience barriers to seeking or receiving behavioral health care. Consistent with that commitment, we encourage hospitals to examine any practices impacting whether health care providers seek behavioral health care…
The greatest resource in the health care field is our workforce. I’ve spent my entire career in health care, and the commitment, compassion, courage and skill of health care professionals has been awe-inspiring. That’s why taking care of health care workers must always be a priority for health care…
In this National Suicide Prevention month and as National Physician Suicide Awareness Day approaches, Julie Goldstein Grumet, director of the Zero Suicide Institute, explains how a team approach can reduce suicide risks in the health care workforce.
For National Suicide Prevention Month and National Physician Suicide Awareness Day, the Zero Suicide Institute and the Suicide Prevention in the Health Care Workforce guide provides strategies for preventing suicide in physicians and health care workers.
In this podcast during National Suicide Prevention Month, a behavioral health leader from Chicago-based CommonSpirit Health and participant in AHA’s Suicide Prevention Learning Collaborative, shares ideas and best practices to support health care worker well-being across the organization.
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.