Practical Ways to Advocate for Well-being in Hospital Medicine-Presentation

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The webinar revisited SHM’s Well-Being Toolkit and focused on practical ways hospitalists and leaders can promote wellness in their groups. Speakers emphasized that burnout is a major, long-standing issue in medicine, worsened by the pandemic, and that it affects not only individuals but also patient care, team culture, turnover, quality, and financial performance.<br /><br />A central theme was that burnout is driven largely by systems and workflows, not just personal resilience. The toolkit is designed for three “personas”: hospitalists who want to support well-being, hospital medicine leaders, and formal well-being leaders. A key starting point is self-care before advocacy.<br /><br />The speakers shared concrete examples from their own organizations: structured check-ins with colleagues, beginning meetings with human-centered check-in questions, thoughtful email practices to reduce digital overload, weekly updates that bundle information and include gratitude/kudos, and “Renewal Fridays” to protect time for recovery and meaning. They also described leader modeling, such as sharing personal highs and lows, and creating mechanisms for feedback that led to structural changes like shorter service stints and better cross-coverage.<br /><br />The discussion also covered culture change, recognizing that small, local actions can shift norms over time. The panel stressed the importance of reframing metrics like length of stay, patient experience, and HCAHPS as side effects of good clinical care rather than the sole goal. Finally, they offered resources for making the business case for wellness, including burnout cost calculators and articles on burnout’s financial impact and more precise language around collective suffering and organizational compassion.

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