Our Work
Healthy at Hopkins Employee Health Program
Healthy at Hopkins is the branded employee health and wellness program that operates out of the Office of Well-Being. The Healthy at Hopkins team leads initiatives that cover the spectrum of healthy lifestyle strategies for both individuals and groups. The team uses the CDC Worksite Health ScoreCard to support our hospitals and entities in implementing policies and programs to prevent heart disease, stroke and other chronic conditions.
Guiding Principles
- Grounding our work in the evidence about the art and science of advancing well-being
- Focusing on key drivers of well-being
- Convening stakeholders to inform discussion and activity around well-being strategies, resources, and policies
- Collaborating with partners across JHM
- Shaping a culture of health by leveraging:
- Leadership
- Shared Values
- Positive Social Climate
- Norm building
- Peer Support
- Touchpoints
Strategies
- Advocate for increased, equitable access to well-being resources for all who work at JHM
- Promote well-being efforts through multi-level, multi-modal communications
- Create a well-being culture in the workplace
- Build capacity of leaders and managers to support the well-being of their people through skills-building and coaching
- Identify potential barriers to safe, efficient clinical practice and inform efforts to make patient care more meaningful
- Bring solutions to leadership for improvements, integrations, policies and investments to support well-being
- Monitor JHM well-being efforts on behalf of JHM clinicians and staff through enterprise-wide assessments
- Contribute to discovery and dissemination by serving as a center for well-being research for JHM
Our History: Joy in Medicine Task Force
In 2016, Hopkins convened the Joy in Medicine Task Force to identify barriers to professional satisfaction and develop strategies to restore joy at work. The Office of Well-Being was created following the group’s recommendations.
Interprofessional Well-Being Survey
Johns Hopkins administers the Interprofessional Well-Being Survey (IPWS) to measure the drivers of burnout and to identify the promoters and barriers to professional fulfillment and meaningful work. We do this to inform operational quality improvement and to make work better for our clinicians and other members of the Johns Hopkins Medicine community. Hopkins is a member of the Healthcare Provider Well-being Academic Consortium (H-PWAC), which enables us to take part in data benchmarking with peer institutions.
Collaborative for Mental, Emotional, Spiritual Health (MESH)
The Collaborative for Mental, Emotional, Spiritual Health (MESH) was convened in 2020 as part of the JHM response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Led by the Office of Well-Being, MESH weaves together several Johns Hopkins services that work closely together to support mental and emotional health for employees. Members of the MESH collaborative include the Department of Spiritual Care and Chaplaincy, the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, the Johns Hopkins Employee Assistance Program (JHEAP) and Resilience in Stressful Events (RISE).
Contact us to learn more about the work of the MESH Collaborative at [email protected]
Joy in Medicine™ Health System Recognition Program
In 2022, Johns Hopkins Medicine was recognized as a part of the American Medical Association’s 2022 Joy in Medicine™ Health System Recognition Program. Johns Hopkins was recognized at the bronze level, which means it met five of six required criteria, including having a formalized well-being committee and/or office of well-being and providing aggregate findings from its most recent burnout assessment within the last three years and demonstrating that these data were shared with its organization. Johns Hopkins and 27 other organizations recognized in 2022.