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Solutions & Resources
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National Framework for Addressing Burnout and Moral Injury in the Health and Public Safety Workforce
The Workplace Change Collaborative framework funded by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), explores the drivers and process of burnout and moral injury and identifies practical strategies and tools to improve worker and learner well-being in health and public safety settings.
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Moral Injury Featured in the New England Journal of Medicine
On August 31, 2024, the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) published a PERSPECTIVE piece by long-time moral injury pioneers Wendy Dean and Simon Talbot, and others. The publication of this article in the NEJM is significant due to its reputation as a leading medical journal, known for publishing high-impact research and perspectives on critical health issues.
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Download the white paper
How reframing distress can support your workforce and heal your organization
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HeaR-MI Information Sheet
MIHC identifies the root causes of your workforce’s distress and offers tailored solutions for reimagining the work environment. Our goal is to improve workforce commitment, recruitment and retention by insuring they have the tools, resources, autonomy, latitude, and values alignment to provide exceptional care.
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HeaR-MI Program Details
When leadership makes a small investment in the long-term health of the community, it will pay dividends well into the future in retention and lower recruitment costs. When this program and process are reinforced consistently in the first 6-12 months, benefits accrue and the culture becomes self-sustaining.
Other Podcasts
Moral Matters | Wendy Dean and Simon Talbot
Reframing clinician distress from burnout to moral injury.
An Arm and a Leg | Dan Weissman
The high cost of healthcare and what’s behind it
Business of Healthcare (NPR) | Glen Robinson
Navigating services, technologies, regulations and codes that can make health care intimidating
Other Podcasts
Moral Matters | Wendy Dean and Simon Talbot
Reframing clinician distress from burnout to moral injury.
43cc exposes how doctors – at least two outspoken ones – really feel about healthcare in America. They spill some hard truths,, drop some deep research, and do their best to bring solidarity and solutions to patients and practitioners.
An Arm and a Leg | Dan Weissman
The high cost of healthcare and what’s behind it
Workplace Change Collaborative | Wendy Dean
This six-part series explores the drivers and consequences of burnout and moral injury amongst health workers, and identifies practical strategies to improve their well-being. The podcast series is available on Apple, Audible, iHeart Radio and Spotify.
Business of Healthcare (NPR) | Glen Robinson
Navigating services, technologies, regulations and codes that can make health care intimidating
“It is time…to re-establish the societal contract and human connection between…institutions, their employees, their patients and their communities.”
DR. WENDY DEAN
Reading
General Healthcare
If I Betray These Words
Moral Injury in Medicine and Why It's So Hard
for Clinicians to Put Patients First
The Hospital | Brian Alexander
Life or death of a small hospital
The Price We Pay: What Broke American Health Care and How to Fix It | Marty Makary
The seamy side of the business of medicine
The Premonition | Michael Lewis
Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic
Sick | Jonathan Cohn
The decline of the American healthcare system and the consequences of not replacing it
An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back | Elisabeth Rosenthal
How healthcare became big business
In Shock: My Journey from Death to Recovery and the Redemptive Power of Hope | Rana Awdish
A patient’s perspective
The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy | Michael Lewis
What happens when the people given control over our government have no idea how it works
The American Healthcare Paradox | Elizabeth Bradley & Lauren Taylor
Spending more is getting us less
Prescription for the Future | Ezekiel Emanuel
Twelve transformational practices of effective organizations
Genius on the Edge | Gerald Imber, MD
William Halsted, the man who begot medical training
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End | Atul Gawande
Healthcare driven by patient values, not profit
Priced Out | Uwe Reinhardt
Why American health care is so expensive—and why it doesn't have to be
The Great Influenza | John M. Barry
Lessons from the 1918 flu pandemic
Reinventing American Healthcare | Ezekiel Emanuel
The promise of the Affordable Care Act
Leadership
Creativity, Inc | Ed Catmull
Inside Pixar and its leadership tenets
Team of Teams | Stanley McChrystal
Systems thinking in leadership
Uncharted | Margaret Heffernan
Charting the future beyond 400 days – how business leaders can think differently
Leaders Eat Last | Simon Sinek
Servant leadership
Dare to Lead | Brené Brown
You can’t lead if you don’t know who you are
Predictably Irrational | Dan Ariely
How our quirky human brains work – useful for leadership
The System of Professions | Andrew Abbott
What is a profession? How do they fail?
Social Determinants of Health (SDOH)
The Health Gap | Sir Michael Marmot
Why social injustice is the greatest threat to global health
Dreamland | Sam Quinones
The opioid epidemic
Heartland | Sarah Smarsh
Working and being broke in the US
Evicted | Matthew Desmond
Poverty and economic exploitation in WI
General Interest
The Tyranny of Metrics | Jerry Muller
Why focusing on metrics fails us
The Forever War | Dexter Filkins
Not understanding the totality of the environment resulted in a quagmire
The Education of an Idealist | Samantha Power
A window into the government and how one career informs another
Fiasco | Thomas Ricks
Silence and poor planning in Iraq
Scarcity | Sendhil Mullainathan & Eldar Shafir
How scarcity – of anything – blinkers our thought processes
Skills & Solutions
Why We Act | Catherine Sanderson
Who acts on their values and why. What prevents people from acting?
Never Split the Difference | Chris Voss
Negotiating techniques for every day
Manifesto for a Moral Revolution | Jacqueline Novogratz
How patient capital and a long-horizon view of investment, with a focus on bettering society, works
Giving Voice to Values | Mary Gentile
How to speak so others can hear