HealthLeaders Media August 2, 2018
The premier university and its health system have adopted an approach to wellness that focuses on promoting efficiency, supporting resilience, and creating a culture of wellness.
Personal resilience is only part of Stanford University’s burnout strategy for physicians and other employees.
“Wellness is much more than that. It’s about the culture. It’s about giving people the tools they need to succeed. It’s also about getting in the flow and being engaged in our work,” Patricia Purpur de Vries, director of the Stanford Health Promotion Network, said this week at the Virtual Health Care Summit in Boston.
Stanford has been focusing intently on physician burnout since 2013. Internal survey data from 2013 to 2016 showed burnout was a potentially devastating financial...