Forbes November 1, 2023
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is looking to tackle a brewing healthcare worker mental health crisis by introducing a new initiative aimed at helping doctors and nurses deal with burnout, which affected nearly half of the workforce in 2022.
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The new CDC program announced Tuesday to help curb burnout is called Impact Wellbeing. The program includes a questionnaire meant to collect information on health workers’ wellbeing, a guide that helps leaders talk about mental health care and strategies for supervisors to balance their employees’ work and home lives. The new program stems from a 2022 federal law named after a doctor who died by suicide in 2020.
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