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Human trafficking, whether for forced labor or sexual exploitation, is a human rights abuse and a crime. You might think it can’t happen here, in my community, but you would be wrong. Multiple studies have shown that 88% of victims had come into contact with the healthcare system while being trafficked. Healthcare workers have the opportunity to interact with victims and disrupt the cycle of abuse, but victims’ situations and their trauma frequently go unrecognized in our emergency departments, practices and clinics.
In this webinar hosted by Schwartz Center Chief Medical Officer Dr. Beth Lown, Tejal Patel, Esq., CPHRM, associate risk management counsel at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, will moderate a discussion with members of their Human Trafficking Response Teams (a Schwartz Center 2022 Corman IMPACT Honors recipient): Karen Silva, PhD, MSFN, MSN, PMHRN-BC, behavioral health nurse, Amy Huynh, LCSW, ACM, a social worker in the cardiac surgery ICU, and Tameia Marshall, MBA, a patient access manager. We’ll learn about their work to educate and support healthcare workers so they in turn can recognize and offer trauma-informed care to victims of human trafficking.
To schedule HT training from Cedars-Sinai’s HT Response Taskforce, please contact TJ directly at Tejal.Patel@cshs.org
Please join us for a special celebration of the 2022 National Compassionate Caregivers of the Year®. This year marks the 23rd anniversary of this distinguished award, a national recognition program that celebrates healthcare professionals who exemplify extraordinary compassion in caring for patients and families. We invite you to meet this year’s National Compassionate Caregivers of the Year, and to listen as they share personal stories of giving, receiving, and making possible compassionate patient and family care during an intimate panel discussion moderated by Schwartz Center Chief Medical Officer Dr. Beth Lown.
The 2022 National Compassion Caregivers of the Year are:
Shame is part of healthcare, and yet it so often goes unnamed. For this very special Compassion in Action webinar, we’ve teamed up with The Nocturnists medical storytelling organization to introduce their latest project, Shame in Medicine: The Lost Forest, to the Schwartz Center community.
Why shame? It’s everywhere in healthcare – from training to clinician experience and beyond. And when we fail to address it, we can face a range of negative outcomes – burnout, depression, poor health, and unprofessional behavior, among others. But by naming the unnamed – by sharing our stories and moving towards mutual understanding – we can prevent such outcomes and begin to heal our medical culture.
During this important conversation, Emily Silverman, MD, an internist and host/creator of The Nocturnists, will moderate a panel discussion with shame researcher Will Bynum, MD, associate professor of family medicine at Duke University School of Medicine, director of the Duke Family Medicine Residency Program and co-producer of The Nocturnists’ Shame in Medicine; Tina McDowell, RN, emergency medicine nurse leader and educator; and Uchenna C. Ewulonu, MD, assistant professor of pediatrics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and pediatric hospitalist and associate program director at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago. They’ve courageously shared their stories of shame on The Nocturnists’ new 10-part documentary podcast series and will discuss them further with us during this session. We hope you will join us.
This webinar is being offered in partnership with #FirstRespondersFirst, a fund of the Entertainment Industry Foundation (EIF), a 501(c)(3) charitable organization.
Every healthcare profession is struggling right now to attract and retain the best talent – and as demand grows for care, so too does the need for a diverse population of healthcare providers that share the experiences of the communities they care for. Join us for an action-oriented discussion about how we can collaborate to address the social determinants of health professional education and increase diversity in both education and leadership. Teresa Y. Smith, MD, MSEd, associate dean of graduate medical education and DIO at SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University will moderate this critical conversation with panelists Joan Y. Reede, MD, MPH, MS, MBA, dean for diversity and community partnership and professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School; Deborah Trautman, PhD, RN, FAAN, president and chief executive officer of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN); and William McDade, MD, PhD, chief diversity, equity, and inclusion officer at Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME).
Staffing shortages, unprecedented stress, and mounting burnout are just a few of the acute challenges facing the nursing workforce, all exacerbated by two-plus years of the pandemic. During this important panel discussion moderated by Gaurdia Banister, PhD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN, executive director of the Institute for Patient Care and Director of the Yvonne L. Munn Center for Nursing Research at Massachusetts General Hospital, we’ll hear from four national nursing leaders: Mary Joy Garcia-Dia, DNP, RN, FAAN, president of the Philippine Nurses Association of America; Allison Nordberg, PMP, program director at the American Nurses Foundation; Bernadette Mazurek Melnyk, PhD, APRN-CNP, FAANP, FNAP, FAAN, vice president for Health Promotion, university chief wellness officer and dean, College of Nursing at The Ohio State University; and Deb Zimmerman, DNP, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN, CEO of the Daisy Foundation.
During this webinar we discuss the impact of shortages and potential staffing solutions, how we can cultivate the psychological and physical safety our nurses need in the clinical workplace, how inclusion can support innovation and problem-solving, and why work-life balance matters for mental health and well-being. The discussion is followed by an interactive Q&A.
Here at the Schwartz Center, we’re devoted to advancing compassion for all who give and receive care. But why does compassion really matter? In this Compassion in Action webinar, Dr. Stephen Trzeciak, co-author of Compassionomics: The Revolutionary Scientific Evidence That Caring Makes a Difference, will explain why compassion could be a “wonder drug” for the 21st century, and for the challenges facing today’s healthcare leaders. In conversation with Schwartz Center Chief Medical Officer Dr. Beth Lown, Dr. Trzeciak will share evidence that shows the vast benefits of compassion in healthcare: for patients, healthcare organizations, and the healthcare workforce.
Stephen W. Trzeciak, MD, MPH, is Chairman and Chief in the Department of Medicine and Medical Director of the Adult Health Institute at Cooper University Health Care. He is also a Professor of Medicine at Cooper Medical School of Rowan University.
After two years in crisis, many healthcare leaders are finally coming up for air and taking proactive steps towards organizational well-being — with chief wellness officers leading the charge.
During this important panel discussion, moderated by Jonathan Ripp, MD, MPH, chief wellness officer of the Mount Sinai Health System and Icahn School of Medicine and co-founder of CHARM, we’ll hear from three chief wellness officers at academic medical centers across the U.S.: Christine Hein, MD, Maine Medical Center; Stephen Keithahn, MD, University of Missouri School of Medicine and University of Missouri Health Center; and Mariah Quinn, MD, MPH, UWHealth and University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
Our panelists will talk about who they are, what they do, their vision for healthcare workforce well-being, and why the time is now for advocacy and action. They’ll also share practical tips for advancing well-being work at your organization. The discussion will be followed by a Q&A.
As 2022 arrived, we found ourselves two years into a pandemic that has taken a lasting toll on the workforce and on the systems we rely upon to keep our communities safe and healthy.
In response, a group of experts in collaboration with the National Academy of Medicine and All In: Wellbeing First For Healthcare, convened to answer the question on every healthcare leader’s mind – “What can we do NOW to support our workforce?” – and generated five recommendations for action: The 2022 Healthcare Workforce Rescue Package.
Join us for this urgent panel discussion with members of this group – Corey Feist, JD, MBA, President and Co-Founder, Dr. Lorna Breen Heroes’ Foundation; Robyn Begley, DNP, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN, CEO of the American Organization for Nursing Leadership and CNO and SVP for Workforce of the American Hospital Association; and Tina Shah, MD, MPH, Co-Chair and Principal, TNT Health Enterprises – moderated by the Schwartz Center’s Chief Medical Officer Dr. Beth Lown. We’ll delve into the five recommendations and take a look at what they mean for leaders, clinicians and other healthcare workers trying to make a meaningful difference in the way we work in healthcare, and how we can sustain ourselves while continuing to care with compassion for our patients.