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CDC Launches Initiative to Reduce Healthcare Worker Burnout
Modern Healthcare | By Mari Devereaux
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is launching an effort to help hospitals address workforce burnout and support the mental wellness of their employees.
Led by the CDC’s National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health and the Dr. Lorna Breen Heroes Foundation, the initiative includes resources for hospitals to identify areas for improvement in employee well-being and training for frontline leaders to help foster a better work-life balance among staff.
“Many of the current approaches [to burnout] have been directed at individual health workers, asking them to become more resilient, as opposed to changing the environment where these stressors are actually occurring,” said Dr. Casey Chosewood, director of the Office for Total Worker Health, part of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.
Around 56% of nurses and 47% of physicians reported burnout during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to an American Medical Association survey of more than 43,000 healthcare professionals published in March by the Journal of General Internal Medicine.
Industrywide issues like inadequate staffing, increased clinical workload and negative employer-employee relations remain the primary causes of burnout among healthcare workers, leading more to unionize or announce their intentions to leave healthcare.
The initiative will focus on offering health systems long-term solutions to widespread burnout and suggesting changes to policies, workflows and systems of mental health support, Chosewood said. Another component is a worker well-being questionnaire that hospitals could use to determine the main struggles at their institution.
The initiative builds on a 2021 CDC campaign to raise awareness of the mental health burden of clinicians and educate industry leaders on best practices, policies and interventions to prevent burnout.
A number of healthcare worker advocacy organizations have sounded the alarm on clinician burnout, and there have been some legislative efforts to address the issue with funding.
In 2022, President Joe Biden signed the Dr. Lorna Breen Health Care Provider Protection Act, which allotted $135 million over three years to hospitals and the Health and Human Services Department to encourage mental health treatment and prevent suicide among healthcare workers. About $20 million from the law, funded by the American Rescue Plan Act, went to the institute to fund research and other work in the clinician mental health space, Chosewood said.
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Mike Johnson, a Staunch Louisiana Conservative, is Elected House Speaker as GOP Moves Past Chaos
AP News | By Lisa Mascaro, Stephen Groves, Farnoush Amiri and Kevin Freking
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans unanimously elected Rep. Mike Johnson as House speaker on Wednesday [10/25/23], eagerly elevating a deeply conservative but lesser-known leader to the major seat of U.S. power and ending for now the weeks of political chaos in their majority.
Johnson, 51, of Louisiana, swept through on the first ballot with support from all Republicans anxious to put the past weeks of tumult behind and get on with the business of governing. He was quickly sworn into office, second in line to the presidency.
“The people’s House is back in business,” Johnson declared after taking the gavel.
A lower-ranked member of the House GOP leadership team, Johnson emerged as the fourth Republican nominee in what had become an almost absurd cycle of political infighting since Kevin McCarthy’s ouster as GOP factions jockeyed for power. While not the party’s top choice for the gavel, the deeply religious and even-keeled Johnson has few foes and an important GOP backer: Donald Trump.
“I think he’s gonna be a fantastic speaker,” Trump said Wednesday at the New York courthouse where the former president, who is now the Republican front-runner for president in 2024, is on trial over a lawsuit alleging business fraud.
Three weeks on without a House speaker, the Republicans have been wasting their majority status — a maddening embarrassment to some, democracy in action to others, but not at all how the House is expected to function.
President Joe Biden called to congratulate the new speaker and said it’s “time for all of us to act responsibly” with challenges ahead to fund the government and provide aid for Ukraine and Israel.
“We need to move swiftly,” the president said in a statement…
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President's Message
Posted: October 24, 2023
Well, it certainly has been an eventful couple of weeks. Shocking and disappointing events in both world and national politics. The initial attacks by Hamas on Israeli civilians tread a thin line between terrorism and war crimes. Israel is well within its rights to fight back, but I am hopeful that civilian casualties on both sides can be limited.
Here at home, the House of Representatives seems to have devolved into, well, I don’t know what. One small group pulled a trump card and ran off one Speaker because they didn’t get what they wanted. Now, the Republican party can’t find enough unity to elect a new Speaker. Will we see the American version of a coalition government? Dogs and cats, living together in harmony? Who knows? Hopefully, our congressional representatives can stop and remember that there is a nation to govern here.
On a brighter, more local note, Matt Hansen, our Deputy Director, Stacey Fisher, our Public Relations chair, and I have just returned from the NAHC Annual Conference in Washington, DC. It was great to see some of our members (and some prospective members!) there, and we also spent time working on potential partnerships with industry leaders with the intention of providing you, our members, with more value for your continued membership.
Sincerely,
Phil Goldsmith
President
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Webinar: Slow the Burn: How Mindset, Creativity and the Artistic Process Can Fight Burnout & Boost Resilience
When: Wednesday, November 1, 2023 | 8:00pm - 9:00pm ET
Burnout and attrition of physical therapists and physical therapist assistants is rising, especially in the aftermath of a world-changing global pandemic. Many strategies are used to address these issues, but in our science-based profession, one area is often overlooked. Arts and humanities can be integral in developing increased resilience and satisfaction in our professional lives. It may be the missing link in fulfilling those needs and mitigating burnout. This webinar will explore mindset and creativity as tools to fight burnout and improve life-work flow. Participants will leave restored and ready to expand their own self-care strategies as well as improve therapeutic alliance and patient care.
This webinar is FREE for APTA Home Health members, and $20 for non-members.
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