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STAR² Center Talks Workforce Success Podcast
In today’s rapidly changing workplace environment, health centers need to be at the forefront of developing solutions that meet the ever evolving needs of their workforce. ACU’s STAR² Center Talks Workforce Success Podcast Series brings you engaging and informative chats with health center leaders and experts about the different core components that make up a robust health center workforce as it is the fuel for your organizational mission.
Listen to episodes in both seasons of the podcast below, and stay tuned for new episodes in our season examining COVID-19’s impact on providers, patients, and staff at federally qualified health centers. You can also learn more about the work of ACU’s STAR² Center at www.chcworkforce.org.
For more information about the podcast, please contact Michelle Fernández Gabilondo.
Season 4: Combating Burnout and Compassion Fatigue
Creating work spaces that foster resiliency and wellbeing is critical to building and retaining a strong, compassionate workforce. The fourth season of the STAR² Center Talks Workforce Success podcast focuses on the ways organizations support their employees and empower them to address and prevent the challenges of compassion fatigue and burnout.
STAR² Center Talks Workforce Success Podcast Episode 20: Workforce Wellness as a Collective, Collaborative, and Integrated Process
In this episode, ACU’s Alex Rohlwing speaks with Brooke Sims, Director of Integrated Health; Carrie Farquhar, Director of Workforce Development; and Dr. Dana Vallangeon, Chief Medical Officer, at the Ohio [...]
STAR² Center Talks Workforce Success Podcast Episode 19: A Conversation with the Puerto Rico Primary Care Association
La creación de espacios de trabajo que fomenten la resiliencia y el bienestar es fundamental para construir y retener una fuerza laboral fuerte y compasiva. La cuarta temporada del podcast [...]
STAR² Center Talks Workforce Success Podcast Episode 18: Exploring Employee Wellbeing Through Mission-Driven Approaches
Creating work spaces that foster resiliency and wellbeing is critical to building and retaining a strong, compassionate workforce. The fourth season of the STAR² Center Talks Workforce Success podcast focuses [...]
STAR² Center Talks Workforce Success Podcast Episode 17: Data Driven Approaches to Employee Wellness
In the latest episode of ACU's STAR2 Center Talks Workforce Success podcast, ACU’s Helen Rhea Vernier interviews Dr. Matthew Malek, Medical Director of Provider Experience at Thundermist Health Center in Woonsocket, [...]
STAR² Center Talks Workforce Success Podcast Episode 16: Creating Organizational Cultures of Wellness
ACU’s STAR2 Center is excited to release the first episode in the latest season of the STAR2 Center Talks Workforce Success podcast exploring strategies to combat burnout and compassion fatigue in the healthcare workforce. [...]
Season 3: Employee Self-Care
As burnout, compassion fatigue, and moral distress continue to affect the health center workforce, the third season of the STAR² Center Talks Workforce Success podcast presents insights, lessons learned, and first-hand experience in navigating and overcoming the challenges of these issues from those working in the field.
STAR² Center Talks Workforce Success Podcast Episode 15: Living with Grace and Planning for Self-Care Through Chaos
As burnout, compassion fatigue, and moral distress continue to affect the health center workforce, the third season of the STAR² Center Talks Workforce Success podcast presents insights, lessons learned, and first-hand experience [...]
STAR² Center Talks Workforce Success Podcast Episode 14: Modeling and Practicing “Self-Care”
As burnout, compassion fatigue, and moral distress continue to affect the health center workforce, the third season of the STAR² Center Talks Workforce Success podcast presents insights, lessons learned, and first-hand experience [...]
STAR² Center Talks Workforce Success Podcast Episode 13: The Psychology of Positive Thinking and Meditation
As burnout, compassion fatigue, and moral distress continue to affect the health center workforce, the third season of the STAR² Center Talks Workforce Success podcast presents insights, lessons learned, and first-hand experience [...]
STAR² Center Talks Workforce Success Podcast Episode 12: Creating & Sustaining Programs for Health Center Employee & Client Self-Care
As burnout, compassion fatigue, and moral distress continue to affect the health center workforce, the third season of the STAR² Center Talks Workforce Success podcast presents insights, lessons learned, and [...]
STAR² Center Talks Workforce Success Podcast Episode 11: Organizational Self-Care for Employee Wellbeing
As burnout, compassion fatigue, and moral distress continue to affect the health center workforce, the third season of the STAR² Center Talks Workforce Success podcast presents insights, lessons learned, and [...]
Season 2: COVID-19’s Impact on Health Center Workforces
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to drastically affect the health center workforce, the second season of the STAR² Center Talks Workforce Success podcast dives deeper into the immediate and long-term effects of this crisis on health centers.
STAR² Center Talks Workforce Success Podcast Episode 10: Serving Rural Communities During COVID-19
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to drastically affect the health center workforce, the second season of the STAR² Center Talks Workforce Success podcast dives deeper into the immediate and long-term [...]
STAR² Center Talks Workforce Success Podcast Episode 9: The C-Suite’s Role in Advancing Workforce Wellness During Emergencies
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to drastically affect the health center workforce, the second season of the STAR² Center Talks Workforce Success podcast dives deeper into the immediate and long-term [...]
STAR² Center Talks Workforce Success Podcast Episode 8: How COVID-19 Impacted the Oral Health Workforce
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to drastically affect the health center workforce, the second season of the STAR² Center Talks Workforce Success podcast dives deeper into the immediate and long-term [...]
STAR² Center Talks Workforce Success Podcast Episode 7: The Personal Impact of a Positive COVID Test
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to drastically affect the health center workforce, the second season of the STAR² Center Talks Workforce Success podcast dives deeper into the immediate and long-term [...]
STAR² Center Talks Workforce Success Podcast Episode 6: COVID-19’s Professional Impact
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to drastically affect the health center workforce, the second season of the STAR² Center Talks Workforce Success podcast dives deeper into the immediate and long-term [...]
Season 1: Chief Workforce Officer Series
The introductory season of the STAR² Center Talks Workforce Success podcast gives you a glimpse into the integral role Chief Workforce Officers (CWO) play in advancing health center workforce success
STAR² Center Talks Workforce Success Podcast Episode 5: PCAs and Health Center Workforce Initiatives
In the introductory season of the STAR² Center Talks Workforce Success podcast, ACU's Michelle Fernández Gabilondo gives you a glimpse into the integral role Chief Workforce Officers (CWO) play in [...]
STAR² Center Talks Workforce Success Podcast Episode 4: Primary Care Associations and FQHC Workforces
In the introductory season of the STAR² Center Talks Workforce Success podcast, ACU's Michelle Fernández Gabilondo gives you a glimpse into the integral role Chief Workforce Officers (CWO) play in [...]
STAR² Center Talks Workforce Success Podcast Episode 2: Health Center Workforce Diversity
In the introductory season of the STAR² Center Talks Workforce Success podcast, Michelle Fernández Gabilondo, Senior Training Specialist at ACU, gives you a glimpse into the integral role Chief Workforce [...]
STAR² Center Talks Workforce Success Podcast Episode 1: Strategic Planning to Engage Health Center Workforces
In the introductory season of the STAR² Center Talks Workforce Success podcast, Suzanne Speer, Senior Director of Workforce Development at ACU, gives you a glimpse into the integral role Chief [...]
More Resources to Build on Our Workforce Success Podcast
You can find more resources on health center workforces, including toolkits, online learning modules, webinars, and more at ACU’s Solutions, Training, and Assistance for Recruitment and Retention (STAR² Center) at www.chcworkforce.org. ACU’s STAR² Center provides resources, training, and technical assistance to help Health Center Program grantees with their clinician workforce challenges and questions. They are a National Training and Technical Assistance Partner of the Bureau of Primary Health Care with funding through a national cooperative agreement with the Bureau of Primary Health Care at the Health Resources and Services Administration ensures that services are offered free of charge to all health centers and look-alikes.
