Envision Healthcare Shares Resources to Support Clinician Mental Health
17 Septiembre 2021 - 10:33AM
Business Wire
National Medical Group Uses Systematic
Professional Well-Being Approach to Support Clinicians’
Wellness
Envision Healthcare, a leading national medical group, is
providing best practices on how to improve the professional
well-being of clinicians and mitigate burnout. To help the more
than 50 percent of clinicians who experience symptoms of burnout,1
Envision is sharing its mental health resources with the entire
medical community.
Throughout the pandemic, clinicians have dealt with similar life
stressors that everyone is facing – illness and death of loved
ones, child-rearing responsibilities and overall uncertainty –
compounded by the trauma and fatigue of fighting a deadly disease
for more than 18 months. The post-traumatic stress of the pandemic
has and will continue to impact clinicians in the months and years
to come.
To help clinicians navigate the many challenges they face in the
U.S. healthcare system, Envision has enhanced the wellness
resources it provides clinicians and efforts to reduce stigma
around mental health, including:
- Advocating for the Dr. Lorna Breen Health Care Provider
Protection Act and public policy changes to promote the
study of professional mental, behavioral health and burnout among
healthcare professionals
- Providing additional crisis peer support and free
mental health support services to clinicians as they continue
to care for critically ill COVID-19 patients
- Enhancing its wellness program to address the
psychological and emotional needs of clinicians, including
peer-to-peer support, leadership training and counseling
“As a national medical group, it is a core tenet of our mission
to care for and foster an environment that supports the
professional well-being of clinicians; however, clinician
well-being can’t solely focus on the individual – it must encompass
personal, organizational, healthcare system and policy
interventions,” said Stefanie Simmons, MD, FACEP, Vice President
of Clinician Engagement at Envision Healthcare. “We must ensure all
clinicians have the resources necessary to support their mental
health and well-being. Clinicians are there when we need them most
– we must be there for them.”
To further support clinician well-being, Envision supports
organizational and healthcare system policy improvements, such as
improving practice schedule flexibility, reforming tort laws and
providing student loan relief. While individual well-being and
resiliency are important, addressing professional well-being as a
systemic issue that is actionable will lead to positive, lasting
change.
Read the full clinician professional well-being white paper
here.
About Envision Healthcare Corporation
Envision Healthcare Corporation is a leading national medical
group that delivers physician and advanced practice provider
services, primarily in the areas of emergency and hospitalist
medicine, anesthesiology, radiology/teleradiology, and neonatology
to more than 1,800 clinical departments in healthcare facilities in
45 states and the District of Columbia. Post-acute care is
delivered through an array of clinical professionals and integrated
technologies which, when combined, contribute to efficient and
effective population health management strategies. As a market
leader in ambulatory surgical care, the medical group owns and
operates 255 surgery centers in 34 states and the District of
Columbia, with medical specialties ranging from gastroenterology to
ophthalmology and orthopedics. In total, the medical group offers a
differentiated suite of clinical solutions on a national scale with
a local understanding of our communities, creating value for health
systems, payers, providers, and patients. For additional
information, visit www.envisionhealth.com.
_________________ 1 National Academies of Sciences, Engineering,
and Medicine. 2019. Taking Action Against Clinician Burnout: A
Systems Approach to Professional Well-Being. Washington, DC: The
National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/25521
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Aliese Polk Aliese.Polk@envisionhealth.com
www.envisionhealth.com