Dallas County’s safety net hospital will have access to unique resources to improve health care workers’ “well-being” as part of a national initiative.
Parkland Health was one of 26 organizations selected for the National Academy of Medicine, or NAM, program — joined by only one other Texas organization. The Change Maker Accelerators program is designed to help health organizations implement efforts to address provider burnout.
“There’s fatigue. There’s trauma. There are the work factors of what it takes to be an individual in health care,” said Dr. Jennifer Wimberly, medical director of clinical ethics and resiliency at Parkland. “We take care of such wonderfully complex and vulnerable individuals within our community that it comes with this commitment and this devotion.”…