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CIN Connections, Summer 2021: Caring and Sharing: Supporting the Primary Care Workforce

Date: 
June 21, 2021

The California Improvement Network is a community of health care professionals committed to identifying and spreading better ideas for care delivery. The summer 2021 issue of CIN Connections contains strategies and reflections from health care leaders as they wrestle with increased levels of burnout, trauma, and moral injury among the primary care workforce.

Learn from CIN partner organizations that are adapting how they support providers and staff in light of the pandemic and with a growing understanding of the ongoing challenges faced by this workforce.

Hear from Dr. Heather Farley, chief wellness officer of ChristianaCare, about that organization’s multimodal approach to building a culture of well-being — creating a workplace where it’s okay to not be okay, to talk about feelings, and to get support. Get details on how to:

  • Change the focus from individual resilience to improving the culture and environment
  • Destigmatize, prevent, and mitigate burnout
  • Create peer-to-peer support
  • Fill the tank with joy

In addition, hear directly from a variety of primary care clinics, clinic consortia, independent practice associations, community-based organizations, and others about how they they are supporting their primary care workforce.

Watch the videos of Dr. Farley’s presentation and of the California provider panel. 

See a list of valuable resources about health care provider well-being.

The California Improvement Network (CIN) is a project of the California Health Care Foundation and is managed by Healthforce Center at UCSF.


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