Wellness as a philosophy: How a health center embraced true well-being

Smart organizations are open to creating something new to help improve their company culture and increase retention and overall well-being That’s exactly what Rush University Medical Center did and shared their story at Ragan’s first Workplace Wellness Conference.

A center for clinical wellness

Rush University Medical Center is comprised of three hospitals, a university, a provider network and outpatient sites in Chicagoland. The organization believes that advances in quality patient care are directly tied to the well-being and vitality of researchers, providers, students and staff, who in turn feel burnt out, are distressed about decisions they had to make for their patients and struggling with issues of compassion. So in 2018, Rush developed a wellness office and recruited Chief Wellness Officer Dr. Bryant Adibe, who began to develop a dedicated center for employee wellness onsite.