"Feelings of stress, anxiety, insomnia, depression & loneliness are common during these times. Baptist Health has the following resources to help:"

 

Confidential Hotlines

• Baptist Health South Florida (ALL FACILITIES)
• Medical staff wellbeing: 786-596-3627
• HOPELINE Care On Demand: 1-800-937-4673
• Lifeworks GET CARE: 866-656-9983
• National Physician Support Line: 1-888-409-0141
• Physicians can speak with a volunteer psychiatrist colleague everyday 8am-1am FREE
• Florida Blue 24/7 Helpline: All Floridians for Emotional Support during COVID-19
• 833-848-1762 (FREE + Bilingual Professionals Available)
• Disaster Mental Health Hotline by the American Red Cross: 561-650-9122

Internal & External Resources for the Public:

• Free Mental Health Resources
• Emotional Well-being & Support
• Baptist Health Podcast Host Dr. Jonathan Fialkow w/ guest psychiatrist Dr. Rachel Rohaidy

“Heal the Healers” by Dr. Rivas Vazquez Chief Wellness Officer BHM

• Transcendental Meditation for Medical Staff
• Four (1 hour) sessions
• Improve symptoms of stress, anxiety, insomnia, & chronic illness
• Increase Psychological and Emotional Resilience
• Email Julio Caceres juliocac@baptisthealth.net to save your place

Care On Demand Confidential Mental Health Services:

• Therapists, Psychologists, & Psychiatrists, use code CAREFORYOU

LifeWorks (Baptist Health’s Employee Assistance Program):

• 24/7 Support for employees and families
• 3 in person sessions with a licensed local counselor (in person may vary under COVID)
• 30 minute legal consultation

Medical Staff Resiliency Support:

• Sessions Every Thursday

“Emotional Support Virtual Groups”

• Frontline 15 Sessions
• Resiliency Support Groups
• a 15-minute seminar on relevant topics, such as self-care, stress management and more

Virtual Community Health Classes

Baptist Continuing Medical Education Courses

• Promoting Physician Wellness: How to Retain the Joy in Medicine while Managing Real Life Stress
• Promoting Physician Wellness: Management of Physicians’ Fatigue, Sleep Deprivation and Other Conditions that Contribute to Physician Impairment
• Stress in the time of COVID
• COVID-19 Pandemic: How to Address Anxiety, Panic Attacks & Depression
• Suicide Risk Assessment & Prevention Using Telehealth

Accommodations for At Risk Healthcare Workers via Miami Dade County Emergency Management:

• Must be working within Healthcare Facility
• Negative, Positive or Pending COVID Results
• Looking to isolate from family due to increased exposure
• May also house a family member who has tested positive
• Free accommodations & meals available at Doral Inn & Suites, Airport Sheraton, Airport Regency
• Contact Frank Rollason Director of Emergency Management Miami Dade County 786-578-3802

Community Offerings:

• Healthcare Workers
• Hawks Cay Resort

Smart phone/online  applications for mental health, insomnia, yoga and more:

• CALM
• TEN PERCENT
• HEADSPACE
• ACTION FOR HAPPINESS
• DAILY BURN
• MOOD MISSION
• HEALTH HEROES

Stress Reduction Activities

• Practice What You Preach! A Healthcare Provider’s Guide to a Healthier Lifestyle

• Finding Calm in Your Daily Life: Lasting Meditation Techniques

• Thankfulness: How Gratitude Can Help Your Health

• Staying Sane & Current on COVID 19

• Podcast: Finding Sanity as a Doctor in the Midst of Stress w/ Dr. Carmen Teague

• Practical tips for reducing factors that can lead to burnout

• 10 Easy Ways for Doctors to Destress

• Stress busting 101: 5 stress relief hacks for the busy doctor

• Coming to Your Senses: Stress Relief in the Moment

• Freedom from Panic: Learn to Identify and Manage Panic and Anxiety in Adults Rachel Strohl, Psy.D.

• Helpful Steps in Reducing Anxiety

• Hypnosis | Hypnotherapy | Guided Meditation | Sleep Meditation by Michael Sealey

• Kelly Howell: Meditation for Healing, Depression and Inner Peace

• Progressive Muscle Relaxation Therapy Exercise

• 23 Resilience Building Tools & Exercises (+ Mental Toughness Test)

• Dr. Charlene Dewey: Mini but Mighty Skills for Wellbeing Exercises

• The Wellbeing Initiative: 20 minute Pre-Recorded & Live “Lift” Sessions for Stress, Insomnia, Anxiety & More

• The Center for Mind-Body Medicine: Self-Care

• 235 Ways to Prevent Physician Burnout

Stress on the Frontlines

• Treating pandemic wave of anxiety, depression requires a team effort

• Even small drop in task load can cut odds of physician burnout

• Now’s the time to have a difficult talk about physician suicide

• TESTIMONIALS: What depressed doctors do (when nobody’s looking)

• Resources for Health Care Worker Well-Being and Resiliency

• Workforce Grand Rounds Webinar Series: Combating Healthcare Provider Burnout in the Clinical Setting

• Clinical Psychiatry News: Plan now to address the COVID-19 mental health fallout

• Dr. Asim Nisar, MD Psychiatrist: Stress Management Presentation for BHSF

• Could COVID-19 Finally Destigmatize Mental Illness?

• Webinar: How Am I Supposed to Feel About This?” Addressing Moral Distress Caused by COVID-19

• Supporting Clinician Well-Being During COVID-19 Webinar

• COVID-19: Where Doctors Can Get Help for Emotional Distress

• Stigma Compounds the Consequences of Clinician Burnout during COVID-19: A Call to Action to Break the Culture of Silence

Live & Recorded Webinars

• Health & Happiness Workshop: Every Monday at 1:00 PM EST

• COVID-19 Care: Avoid Burnout and Build Resilience

• From a one-minute workout to a daily gratitude practice, DOs share wellness tips

• Combat stress, loneliness and stiff muscles with these virtual wellness sessions

• Sustainable Strategies to Support Resiliency and Professional Well-being March 2nd

• Minimizing the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Sleep of Healthcare Providers and their Patients (1 CME)

• Managing Mental Health in the Times of Pandemic

• Coming to Your Senses: Stress Relief in the Moment

• SA Call to Action: Improving Clinician Wellbeing and Patient Care and Safety

• Stanford: How do Heart Doctors Stay Heart Healthy

• Grand Round presentation at University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Department of Medicine on "Physician Wellness: Strategies for the Practicing Physician” by Ashwini Nayak, MD.

• Reconnectng with Passion for Your Work

• Staying Resilient as the COVID-19 Pandemic Continues

• Caregiving Professional: Putting Out Fires Everyday but at Risk for Burnout

• Self-Care: Intentionally Improving Life During the COVID-19 Pandemic

• Resilience: How to Thrive during COVID-19

• Caring for Yourself & Others During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Managing Healthcare Workers’ Stress

• Stanford Medicine: Managing Anxiety Related to Taking Care of Patients during the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Interactive Webinar FREE CME (Recorded Webinar, please use Google Chrome Browser)

• Stanford Medicine: Managing COVID-19 Stress FREE CME (please use Google Chrome Browser)

• Webinar: Resiliency & the Workforce---Keys to Survival Dr. Timothy McDonald

• Webinar: When Peer Support is not enough---Referring Colleagues with Severe COVID-19 Related stress

• Champions of Wellness Virtual Summit: October 8th & 9th (Use Discount Code EARLYBIRD20 for FREE registration)

• Resiliency & Self-Care for the Healthcare worker: What to Do in the Face of the COVID-19 Pandemic

• Dealing with Panic & Anxiety-Dr. Jay Winner

• Becoming a More Relaxed, Healthy Practitioner: Reducing Frustration & Increasing Fulfillment by Dr. Jay Winner

• Doctors in Distress: Saving the Lives of Those Who Save Lives | Dr. Ed Ellison TED Talk

• Wendy Lau, MD PODCAST: Grace in a Pandemic

• Building Your Resilient Self: Webinar

• Dr. Charlene Dewey: Mini but Mighty Skills for Wellbeing Self-Care Webinar (14 minutes)

Online Programs & Articles

• Managing stress with coping strategies for the perfectionist-driven physician

• How two emergency medicine DOs maintain wellness during COVID-19

• ADA-noncompliant state licensing boards are a barrier to mental health treatment for physicians, DOs write

• My victory over burnout: How leading a sustainable life changed everything for me

• The Emotional PPE Project

• Physician Leaders Guide - How to lead when everyone is exhausted (thehappymd.com)

• DO psychiatrists share pandemic mental health ‘life hacks’(osteopathic.org)

• How AI in the Exam Room Could Reduce Physician Burnout (hbr.org)

• Critical Care Staff Suffer Trauma and Severe Anxiety Due to COVID-19 - UK Study

• The Immeasurable Value of Humor in Clinical Practice

• Psychological distress, coping behaviors, and preferences for support among New York healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic

• Put Doctors at the Center of Health Care Tech

• Holiday Resilience

• I Am More Than a Doctor

• Much to Celebrate & Much to Defend: An NP Week like No Other

• Pandemic PTSD and Frontline workers: Lessons Learned From a Global Perspective: CME activity

• Feel like you’re falling behind your peers?

• How to cope when life admin gets too much

• Medscape Residents Lifestyle & Happiness Report 2020

• Managing Mental Health during COVID-19

• Federal legislation’s message to doctors: It’s OK to ask for help

• A Love Letter to Healers who give too much: Dr. Lissa Rankin

• 10 Rules for Frontline Physician Sanity

• Preventing a Parallel Pandemic — A National Strategy to Protect Clinicians’ Well-Being:

• AMA Moving Medicine Magazine: Changing the Culture of Burnout (full edition)

• John Hopkins Free Online Course: Psychological First Aid

• The Science of Wellbeing: Yale Sponsored Online Course

• The Coalition for Physician Wellbeing Webinars, Tools & Additional Resources

• American Medical Association: Protect Against Burnout and Encourage; Free Self-Study Module & CME

• Work & Wellbeing Toolkit for Physicians: University of Anschutz Medical Campus School of Medicine

• Moral Distress and Moral Strength among Clinicians in Health Care Systems: A Call for Research

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For more information on programs or to provide feedback please contact Be Well Committee Chairs Drs. Ana Viamonte Ros &
Jonathan Fialkow or Be Well provisional facilitator Mayra Villalba, MSN.

• anavr@baptisthealth.net
• JonathanFi@baptisthealth.net
• mayravi@baptisthealth.net