Podcast: The impact of health innovation on physician well-being
Ruth Chang, MD, and Ed Lee, MD, join host Chris Grant on the Permanente Medicine Podcast to discuss how innovation and technology impact physician well-being.
Ruth Chang, MD, shares 4 major signs of clinician burnout
Northwest Permanente’s chief people officer discusses how to identify and prevent burnout at a Health Action Alliance virtual event.
Refueling Your Workforce: Strategies to Reduce Employee Burnout
Burnout and stress are at all-time highs, depleting workforce productivity and driving record attrition rates. Join the Health Action Alliance's virtual workshop with leading experts in workplace burnout to identify causes and solutions to workplace burnout, and refuel a thriving…
T. Ruth Chang, MD, speaks on how the industry can address the projected physician shortage
The Northwest Permanente physician leader shares the medical group’s efforts to reduce physician burnout and return joy to medicine.
PermanenteDocs Chat on women in medicine
Watch the replay of this Facebook Live chat on the advancement of women physicians and continued challenges to address.
AMA interviews Northwest Permanente chief people officer on physician wellness
T. Ruth Chang says the keys to avoiding physician burnout include building a culture of wellness, optimizing the efficiency and efficacy of practice, and bringing joy and meaning to work.
On Modern Healthcare panel, T. Ruth Chang, MD, discusses women, work, and family during COVID-19
Northwest Permanente’s chief people officer says that “overwhelmed” sums up female health care workers’ experiences of the pandemic.
‘Shecession’: Resilience of Female Workforce in the Wake of Pandemic
Anecdotal reports over the last year show some women – particularly mothers – left the workforce during COVID-19 as they faced more responsibilities at home, impacting for years the pipeline of women in leadership positions. It is more important than…
Ruth Chang, MD, shares advice for promoting physician wellness in AMA Q&A
The Northwest Permanente family medicine physician and chief people officer discusses 4 pillars that helped her medical group set an impressive standard for employee well-being.
A Well Visit for Your Wallet
Dr. Ruth Chang Focuses on Improving Patients' Financial Well-being By Athan Bezaitis The Permanente Federation Last year, the magazine The Atlantic ran a story that contained a critical statistic – almost half of middle-class Americans reported they could not access…