Taking a systems approach to promote posttraumatic growth: A position paper

Megan E. Call, Heather R. Walker, Michael L. Good, Joe Borgenicht, Gretchen A. Case and Amy B. Locke

Health Systems, 2024, vol. 13, issue 4, 316-321

Abstract: As health systems emerge from the pandemic, academic medical centres are motivated to have a healthy and resilient workforce. In the face of the collective traumas of the pandemic, we took a systems approach to infuse wellness into our culture by modelling collective recovery in a non-traditional town hall. Over a dozen senior leaders, faculty, staff, and students shared their personal experiences in a virtual forum, nearly 1000 attendees communally supported one another. Since the town hall, a recording of the experience has been broadly viewed, messaging from leaders proliferated, and smaller versions of the same exercise were implemented. At a time when academic medical centres faced multiple challenges, we chose to first value the well-being of our staff at a system-wide level. It is our hope that other academic medical centres leverage our story to hold space for the experiences of the people who make their work possible.

Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1080/20476965.2023.2275794

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