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CENTERING CLINICIAN AND PHYSICIAN WELL-BEING IN NORTH CAROLINA

The NCCPRW Consortium exists to support the well-being of North Carolina’s clinical professionals. We work to foster a culture that reduces stress, improves retention, promotes well-being, and creates healthier work environments so our clinicians can thrive in their careers and their lives.

THE PROBLEM

 

Many clinicians are feeling overwhelmed, overworked, and undervalued, with nearly half of all healthcare workers experiencing burnout in the years following the pandemic. From administrative burden to stigma around seeking help, systemic stressors are eroding joy and driving talented professionals away from direct care delivery.

 

 

 

OUR SOLUTION

 

NCCPRW is confronting these challenges head-on. As a statewide initiative, we’re building a unified strategy to reduce stress and improve well-being at every level—individual, organizational, and systemic. We are proud partners of the Dr. Lorna Breen Heroes’ Foundation, which founded our current initiative, ALL IN: Caring For Caregivers, a three-phased approach that goes beyond encouraging self-care and individual resilience to focus on operational-level improvements in healthcare organizations.

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ALL-IN: Caring for Caregivers

A THREE-PHASED APPROACH

Founded by The Dr. Lorna Breen Heroes’ Foundation, the ALL IN: Caring for Caregivers initiative focuses on the well-being and mental health of health workers through a systems approach and operational level improvements. To date, we have launched two of three phases with the third launching by the end of 2025 in an effort to improve and support the well-being of North Carolina’s clinical professionals.

PHASE 1

Break Down Barriers for Help-Seeking

Launched April 2024

Intrusive, stigmatizing questions on credentialing applications prevent many healthcare workers from seeking mental health care because they fear losing their job.

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PHASE 2

Learn the Wellbeing Systems Approach 

Launched February 2025

Assemble a Professional Wellbeing Team to participate in a digital curriculum to gain the knowledge necessary to be an effective leader in improving professional wellbeing.

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PHASE 3

Integrate Wellbeing into Operational Improvement

Launched end of 2025

Accelerate a quality improvement project that evaluates improving professional wellbeing with technical assistance and a peer-to-peer learning community.

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What We’re Working Toward

OUR TOP PRIORITIES

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→ Creating supportive workplace cultures that prioritize wellness and engagement.

→ Identifying and mitigating administrative burdens that interfere with your ability to deliver care.

→ Making help more accessible, without stigma or fear, for clinicians navigating mental health challenges.

→ Advocating for systemic improvements in credentialing, workflows, and clinician support programs to impact positive system change that promotes a fulfilling professional environment.

How Far We’ve Already Come

 

ALL IN: CARING FOR NORTH CAROLINA’S CAREGIVERS MILESTONES & IMPACT

 

PHASE 1 | BREAK DOWN BARRIERS FOR HELP-SEEKING

Launched April 2024

Like everyone, health workers deserve the right to pursue mental health care without fear of losing their job. However, institutional practices have subjected health workers to overly invasive questions about their mental health in licensing, credentialing, and insurance applications—impacting health workers willingness to seek help, which can increase the risk of suicide. The Wellbeing First Champion Challenge supports licensure boards, hospitals, and health systems in auditing and changing their applications to be free of intrusive mental health questions and stigmatizing language.

54 North Carolina hospitals verified their credentialing applications do not include intrusive mental health questions,
benefiting 27,000+ credentialed health workers.

*The Wellbeing First Champion Badge serves as a visual recognition for health workers.

Duke Health

  • Duke Arringdon Ambulatory Surgery Center
  • Duke Gastroenterology of Raleigh

HCA Healthcare

  • Angel Medical Center
  • Asheville Specialty Hospital
  • Blue Ridge Regional Hospital
  • CarePartners
  • Highlands-Cashiers Hospital
  • Mission Hospital
  • Mission Hospital McDowell
  • Transylvania Regional Hospital

NC Department of Insurance

Novant Health

  • Novant Health Ballantyne Medical Center
  • Novant Health Brunswick Medical Center
  • Novant Health Clemmons Medical Center
  • Novant Health Forsyth Medical Center
  • Novant Health Huntersville Medical Center
  • Novant Health Kernersville Medical Center
  • Novant Health Matthews Medical Center
  • Novant Health Medical Park Hospital
  • Novant Health Mint Hill Medical Center
  • Novant Health New Hanover Regional Medical Center
  • Novant Health Pender Medical Center
  • Novant Health Presbyterian Medical Center
  • Novant Health Rowan Medical Center
  • Novant Health Thomasville Medical Center

Sentara Albemarle Medical Center

UNC Health

  • UNC Health Appalachian Regional
  • Appalachian Regional Behavioral Healthcare
  • Cannon Memorial Hospital
  • Watauga Medical Center
  • UNC Health Caldwell Memorial Hospital
  • UNC Health Chatham Hospital
  • UNC Health Johnston Hospital
  • UNC Health Johnston Clayton
  • UNC Health Lenoir Hospital
  • UNC Health Nash General Hospital
    • Coastal Plain Hospital
  • UNC Health Onslow Memorial Hospital
  • UNC Health Pardee Hospital
  • UNC Health Rex Hospital
  • UNC Health Rex Holly Springs Hospital
  • UNC Health Rockingham Hospital
  • UNC Health Southeastern Hospital
  • UNC Health Wayne Hospital
  • UNC Hospitals
    • NC Memorial Hospital
    • UNC Hospitals Hillsborough Campus

WakeMed Health & Hospitals

  • WakeMed Raleigh Campus
  • WakeMed North Hospital
  • WakeMed Cary Hospital

PHASE 2 | LEARN THE WELLBEING SYSTEMS APPROACH

Launched February 2025

Healthcare organizations develop Professional Well-being Teams and they complete a 3-hour, on-demand, self-paced course, which includes includes content on reviewing current operations, building a professional wellbeing team, breaking down barriers for help-seeking, and integrating wellbeing into quality improvement.

As of May 2025, 146 leaders from 25 organizations are gaining the knowledge necessary to be an effective leader in improving professional wellbeing.

PHASE 3 | INTEGRATE WELLBEING INTO OPERATIONAL IMPROVEMENT

Launch end of 2025

We’re prepared to support Professional Wellbeing Teams as they implement the WELL-OPS process improvement technique across North Carolina.

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