The Healing Healthcare Initiative: Guiding leaders to heal a traumatized workforce.

The COVID-19 pandemic amplified burnout and moral distress among healthcare professionals and accentuated the systemic gaps and limitations of current approaches to workforce well-being. The Schwartz Center for Compassionate Healthcare launched the Healing Healthcare Initiative (HHI) in response to these compounded challenges. Aligned with national recommendations, the HHI framework comprises six key principles and eight implementation domains that foster compassionate and trauma-informed organizational cultures.

Communicate, don't litigate: The Schwartz Center Connections Program.

Little is known about effective educational approaches intended to reduce malpractice risk by improving communication with patients and among multidisciplinary teams in outpatient settings in order to prevent diagnostic delays and errors. This article discusses a prospective, controlled educational intervention that aimed to open lines of communication among teams in two disciplines: identifying how and why communication lapses occur between disciplines and with patients, and articulating strategies to avert them.

Marital-role quality and stress-related psychobiological indicators.

Background: The quality of one's marital relationship is gaining recognition as a potential stressor associated with negative health outcomes.

Purpose: In this study, we estimated the relationship between marital-role quality and three psychobiological stress indicators (self-reported stress, cortisol levels, and ambulatory blood pressure).

Method: Participants were 105 middle-age adults (67 men, 38 women) who had previously taken part in the Whitehall psychobiology study.

Career satisfaction and retention of a sample of women physicians who work reduced hours.

Objective: To better understand the career satisfaction and factors related to retention of women physicians who work reduced hours and are in dual-earner couples in comparison to their full-time counterparts.

Methods: Survey of a random sample of female physicians between 25 and 50 years of age working within 25 miles of Boston, whose names were obtained from the Board of Registration in Medicine in Massachusetts. Interviewers conducted a 60-minute face-to-face closed-ended interview after interviewees completed a 20-minute mailed questionnaire.

Characteristics and outcomes for women physicians who work reduced hours.

Objectives: To understand the characteristics of women physicians who work reduced hours in dual-earner couples and how such work schedules affect the quality of the marital role, parental role, and job role, as well as indicators of psychological distress, burnout, career satisfaction, and life satisfaction.

Methods: Survey of a random sample of female physicians between 25 and 50 years of age, working within 25 miles of Boston, whose names were obtained from the Registry of Board Certification in Medicine in Massachusetts. Interviewers conducted a 60-minute face-to-face close-ended interview after a 20-minute mailed questionnaire had been completed.