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Encouraging Positive Change

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A well-trained staff is the cornerstone of any Environmental Services Department. Well-developed and polished Shift Leads are even more important to the department’s growth and success. For that reason, Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare in Milwaukee, Wis., created a  year-long Leadership Development Program for Shift Leads to sharpen their skills and help elevate the department’s level of service.

Workloading in Environmental Services

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Workloading has a profound positive impact on everyone including the client, frontline staff, middle management, financial overseers, and organization as a whole. Of course, the opposite also is true. If environmental services workloading is not managed appropriately, the negative impact will affect everyone in your organization as well as your clients, and the outcome will be costly in terms of both dollars and reputation.

The Great Rethink: Challenging Our Assumptions About the Future

A report from the 2022 Thought Leader Forum

Executive Burnout Is Real — and It Can Be Reduced

Nearly three-quarters of health care executives say they have felt burned out in the last six months and 93% believe burnout is negatively impacting their organizations, according to a recently published WittKieffer survey.

3 Keys to Supporting Well-being in Your Organization

A focus on self-care and well-being is the path to sustained professional success and fulfillment and paramount in running a modernized health care system. For hospitals, health systems and other organizations, wellness should be a long-term commitment and include three key components.

Health care workers: Thank you for taking care of us — and for taking care of yourselves

Here are six tips for health professionals to prioritize their mental wellbeing as we head into the holidays.

AHA to CMS: National directory proposal would increase burden without benefit

AHA today urged the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services not to establish a national directory of health care providers and services (NDH) at this time.

The Mission and Vision of an Organization – Assessments and Actions for Deep Culture

The Mission and Vision of your organization is not the culture. It is the tagline. View this webinar to learn more about employing the assessment framework in your organization, and taking small sustainable actions towards creating a deep culture that will resonate with your employees. (Webinar presented November 9, 2022)

Chair File: Planning Today for Tomorrow’s Workforce

We know that prior to the COVID-19 outbreak, demand for health care workers and health care job openings were at record highs. We also know that the pandemic created pressure to quickly ramp up staffing levels and optimize surge capacity, even as the cancellation of non-emergent surgeries caused serious financial challenges for hospitals and health systems.