Solutions for a Sustainable Workforce

By upending traditional approaches to workforce, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia is keeping nurses engaged (and employed) for the long haul.

A children’s hospital developed an employee value proposition to better position itself in the marketplace and enhance employee experience.

Children’s hospitals retain and recruit staff by devoting time and resources to culture building, financial benefits and work flexibility.

Hospital-run centers provide convenient care tailored to the needs of health care workers—and staff who use them stay longer.

By adapting to employee expectations and needs, this hospital reduced staff turnover by a third.

Learn how children's hospitals are working together to safeguard the pediatric workforce.

One children’s hospital addresses the nursing shortage by shaving time from the hiring process.

Leveraging a large scope of benefits, a children’s hospital shares its methods for low employee turnover and high engagement scores.

Children’s Hospital of New Orleans has launched a program that puts a new spin on a tried-and-true recruitment initiative.

The program provides under-resourced communities with career opportunities while tapping new pipeline of diverse talent.

Children’s hospitals are working to attract and recruit tomorrow’s health care workers through educational programs and internships.

Children’s hospitals are using a practical framework to restore and empower a strained workforce.

Human resources and data analytics teams from Children’s Hospital Colorado partnered to create an analytics toolkit that addresses retention, recruitment and more.

The 2024 benefits survey captures a detailed look at children’s hospital-sponsored benefits compared to prior years.

Help employees mitigate burnout by cultivating change at the team level.

Learn the key to making hospital teams more productive, effective and happier.

Children’s hospitals work to address the staffing and budgetary holes caused by the spike in travel nursing.

A multi-pronged approach meets the physical, psychological and emotional needs of employees.

A military first aid method helps hospital staff recover from stressful events.

This 7-step process aims to eliminate stress at its source and build resilient individuals and teams.

The Well-Being Index, a new product included with CHART® participation, enables children’s hospitals to balance employee needs with hospital goals.

A facility dog and clinical handler help hospital teams increase their happiness and decrease fatigue.

Chief nursing officers from different hospital systems come together to launch a podcast for nurses.

Two diversity, equity and inclusion leaders share their best practices for children’s hospitals.

This approach enhances current medical training programs with emphasis on DEI and social determinants of health.

A career development program helps front-line employees grow their careers and become leaders in the hospital.

A children’s hospital commits resources to support and empower employees affected by social determinants of health.

Seattle Children’s is using a three-phased approach to promote racial equity.

Whether it’s on the frontlines of care, within quality improvement or employee benefit plans, DEI requires an extensive approach.

A novel collaboration between the well-being and continuous improvement teams teaches associates to identify and remove waste from their daily work.

This formal process empowers staff members to create solutions to everyday problems, making room for things that matter and improving the employee experience.

A new process for answering patient portal messages improved staff response times, resiliency and well-being.

Health care robots relieve hospital workers of simple duties, freeing them to focus on higher-level tasks.

Learn generational expectations to create the perfect employee benefits package.

A conversation with two experts on the how to succeed with the incoming workforce.

A quick reference for each generation—who they are and what they want.

What health care leaders need to know about recruiting, managing and retaining the oncoming generation.

An internal nursing team empowers the frontline staff to care for behavioral health patients—and the results speak for themselves.

How one children’s hospital is addressing the mental and behavioral health workforce shortage by investing in training and educational programs.

An unlikely labor pool provides timely relief for the behavioral health crisis amid staffing shortages.