Health Workforce Well-Being Day

When workplace policies and practices support the safety and well-being of health workers, health workers can then focus on providing high-quality, personalized, and respectful care. In contrast, high workloads, administrative burdens, and poorly designed technologies divert health workers’ time away from patient care. Health workers and the communities they serve have common goals – better outcomes for all, improved safety, and more interaction and access to care. Each of us can play a role in improving health worker well-being, which in turn benefits every patient, caregiver, and person that will require health care in their lifetime.

March 18 is the national Health Workforce Well-Being (HWWB) Day. The NAM recognizes HWWB Day as an annual commemoration of progress, in pursuit of improved health workforce well-being and patient outcomes. Many have observed this day of action, including the US Senate by passing a resolution expressing support for the Day, CDC by releasing NIOSH’s Impact Wellbeing Guide, Dr. Lorna Breen Heroes’ Foundation, local leaders across the country, and more.

HWWB Day aims to recognize the importance of protecting health workers’ well-being to sustain our health system and ensure quality patient care. HWWB Day is also a day for action—learning from one another to advance the movement for health worker well-being and expand evidence-informed solutions to make system-wide changes that transform cultures.