2024-25 Health Care Workforce Wellness Collaborative

Monthly from Oct. 17 – May 15, 2025 | Register here

Who Should Attend?

While all health care workers are encouraged to participate, the program is geared towards individuals with some leadership responsibility (charge nurse, manager, director, c-suite, etc.).

Registration:

Registration is complimentary for CHA hospital and health system members. If your hospital is planning to view the series together in a conference room, please ensure each person is registered.

For questions or help with registration, contact Peggy McCreary, CHA senior education and events coordinator, at [email protected].

Session Schedule:

Session 1: Noon – 1 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 17
Session 2: Noon – 1 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 7
Session 3: Noon – 1 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 5
Session 4: Noon – 1 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025
Session 5: Noon – 1 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025
Session 6: Noon – 1 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 13, 2025
Session 7: Noon – 1 p.m. on Thursday, March 13, 2025
Session 8: Noon – 1 p.m. on Thursday, April 10, 2025
Session 9: Noon – 1 p.m. on Thursday, May 1, 2025
Session 10: Noon – 1 p.m. on Thursday, May 15, 2025

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Session Details:

Session 1:

Workforce Well-being: A New Leadership Imperative | Noon – 1 p.m. | Thursday, Oct. 17

Read Pierce, MD, chief quality, safety, and transformation officer, Denver Health

This session will introduce the landscape of workforce well-being, scientific frameworks for understanding it, and how it has evolved in the past decade. It will include a brief exploration of interrelated challenges: burnout, moral injury, moral distress, psychological safety at work, compassion fatigue, and values misalignment.

Dr. Pierce will also cover the impact of burnout on patients, financial bottom-line, workforce, and organizational performance. Importantly, it will include emerging frameworks for organization interventions to improve well-being, and how to go about selecting an evidence-based approach for your organization.

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Session 2:

Measurement Approaches to Understanding the Problem and Tracking Meaningful Change | Noon – 1 p.m. | Thursday, Nov. 7

Lotte Dyrbye, MD, senior associate dean of faculty and chief wellbeing officer, University of Colorado School of Medicine

In this session, Dr. Dyrbye will discuss what tools exist and how to select one for your organization, in addition to how to rethink staff surveys and integrate well-being measurement with existing data collection methods.

Dr. Dyrbye will dig into how to couple well-being measurement with workplace safety and violence measurement, providing guidance for deploying a well-being learning loop: data collection —> conversation —> discovery approach and getting actionable feedback from the workforce. Finally, the session will include a discussion on tying data back to governance, organizational strategy, and goal setting.

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Session 3:

Trauma-Informed Care Approaches to Decrease Organizational Stress | Noon – 1 p.m. | Thursday, Dec. 5

Maria Gonsalves-Schimpf, founder/director of RESTORE program (Resilience & Equity through Support & Training for Organizational Renewal), Denver Health

Join Maria to review the latest science about the impact of trauma on the health care workforce and explore evidence-based interventions and programs to reduce individual and organizational stress.

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Session 4:

Cultural Transformation and Well-being, Part 1: Culture Drivers to Enhance Well-being | Noon – 1 p.m. | Thursday, Jan. 9

Patrick Kneeland, MD, vice president of medical affairs and founder of Hospital at Home program and Lindsay McGuiness, managing director of clinical operations, Dispatch Health

Join Dr. Kneeland and Lindsay for a session on leadership and teamwork best practices that reduce burnout and increase well-being.

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Session 5:

Cultural Transformation and Well-being, Part 2: Culture Drivers to Enhance Well-being | Noon – 1 p.m. | Thursday, Jan. 30

Sarah Richards, MD, senior medical director of clinician experience, Nebraska Medicine

Don’t miss Dr. Richards for an in-depth session on how to support employees across the distress-surviving-thriving spectrum, and how to design or re-shape your organizational efforts to emphasize employee well-being. This session will also discuss how to incorporate wellness activities into hospital operations and finances, as well as partnering with existing quality, safety, and DEI efforts.

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Session 6:

Redesigning Daily Work for Well-being, Part 1: Team/Process-based Workflows | Noon – 1 p.m. | Thursday, Feb. 13

Read Pierce, MD, chief quality, safety, and transformation officer, Denver Health

In this session, Dr. Pierce will break down how to reorient competing language in daily operations, retooling improvement methods (Lean, 6Sigma, etc.) to promote workforce well-being, and tips on how to identify removable hassles and implement other resources.

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Session 7:

Redesigning Daily Work for Well-being, Part 2: Digital Workflows | Noon – 1 p.m. | Thursday, March 13

CT Lin, MD, chief medical information officer, UCHealth

Join Dr. Lin for a talk on identifying what an improver EHR can and cannot do, interventions to reduce “work after work,” and other tips on SPRINT teams, team-based charting, and inbox streamlining.

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Session 8:

Panel with Well-being Leaders: Designing Operational Strategy | Noon – 1 p.m. | Thursday, April 10

Moderator:

Read Pierce, MD, chief quality, safety, and transformation officer, Denver Health

Panelists:

Jenny Reese, MD, assistant dean of faculty well-being, University of Colorado School of Medicine, and medical director of provider wellbeing, Colorado Children’s Hospital

Jessica Wallace, DrPH, co-chair of provider engagement and well-being committee, Denver Health

Join this panel session for a discussion on how to best create organizational buy-in for programs to reduce clinician stress and burnout, and how to build infrastructure and momentum.

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Session 9:

Panel Discussion: Artificial Intelligence (AI) | Noon – 1 p.m. | Thursday, May 1

Moderator:

Read Pierce, MD, chief quality, safety, and transformation officer, Denver Health

Panelists:

CT Lin, MD, chief medical information officer, UCHealth

Sara Murray, MD, vice president and chief health AI officer, UCSF Health

Join this panel discussion to explore the promises and potential pitfalls of artificial intelligence’s potential for improving health care worker well-being.

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Session 10:

Workforce Safety: Connection to Well-being in Health Care | Noon – 1 p.m. | Thursday, May 15

Maria Gonsalves-Schimpf, founder/director, RESTORE program (Resilience & Equity through Support & Training for Organizational Renewal), Denver Health

Join Maria’s session for a brief overview of the case for caring about workforce safety and well-being and an exploration of how workforce safety fits into a broader context (moral injury, moral harm, values misalignment).

Maria will also dig into ways of improving workplace safety and reducing workplace violence in health care, effective tools for employees responding in the moment, and strategies for reducing suffering after an incident.

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For more about this series, contact:

Rich Bottner, DHA
CHA vice president, clinical excellence
[email protected]

Nancy Peed
CHA program manager, clinical excellence
[email protected]

Continuing Education Credits
By attending the 2024-25 Health Care Workforce Wellness Collaborative offered by Colorado Hospital Association, participants may earn up to 10.0 ACHE qualified education hours toward initial certification or recertification of the Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives (FACHE) designation. Certificates of Attendance will be available upon request when completing the program evaluation.