Building a Morally Centered Healthcare Organization

June 1, 2024 - In the spring issue of AFT Health Care, Dr. Dean writes a long-form article. The publication is the AFT union's healthcare division journal that represents more than 70,000 members in 100 locals in 18 states and territories.

Dr. Dean states, "None of the myriad interventions to help individual workers address their experiences have made a substantial impact on workers’ mental health and well-being, despite health systems collectively pouring millions of dollars into them. It is time for two new approaches: first, to expand the definition of clinician distress to include the relational ruptures of moral injury, and secondly, to begin holding health systems responsible for the environments they create."