A new toolkit from Essential Hospitals Institute shares concepts for mitigating the critical hospital labor workforce shortage while building workforce equity and resilience. It includes tools, tips, and resources for hospitals at all stages of their equity journey to work toward system-level change and health justice.
Produced with support from The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Building Workforce Equity at Essential Hospitals: A Toolkit for Creating and Maintaining a Resilient, Diverse, Equitable, and Inclusive Workforce was developed with input from a technical expert panel, thought partners, and interviews with leaders at 10 essential hospitals:
- Baystate Health, in Springfield, Mass.
- Bergen New Bridge Medical Center, in Paramus, N.J.
- Eskenazi Health, in Indianapolis.
- ECMC, in Buffalo, N.Y.
- NYC Health + Hospitals, in New York.
- Parkland Health, in Dallas.
- The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, in Columbus, Ohio.
- UChicago Medicine, in Chicago.
- University Health, in Kansas City, Mo.
- Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center, in San Francisco.
The toolkit spotlights essential hospitals’ efforts to plan for and build workforce equity through organizational change, align workforce equity with patient care, and measure progress toward equity goals.
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