Professional grief for healthcare professionals is pervasive and intensifying across settings. Healthcare workers face cumulative losses that can lead to complicated grief, compassion fatigue, exacerbated mental health issues, and impact workplace effectiveness and patient outcomes. Organizations need both informal and formal networks and systems that create a path forward in tending care together.

Organizations face mounting challenges with employee burnout, talent management, and maintaining a cohesive culture. The CARE Framework offers a collaborative approach to driving outcomes by placing human well-being at the center of organizational success. By practicing dignified stewardship of the workforce, organizations create strategic advantages in talent acquisition, organizational agility, and innovation capacity.

The ways we build systems, workplaces, and relationships either sustain us or drain us. When we center care for the human experience, we create possibilities to lead with courage and compassion, to create with intention instead of urgency, and collaborate for meaningful change.