MedStar Health Center for Wellbeing

Awards and Recognition

Our commitment to excellence.

MedStar Health has earned national recognition for advancing workforce wellbeing, organizational culture, and innovation in health care.

Featured Recognition

• American Medical Association Joy in Medicine™ Recognition
• American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) Well-Being Excellence™ Credential
• CareFirst Healthy Business Award
• Maryland Department of Health Healthiest Maryland Business Awards
• Wellbeing First Champion designations from ALL IN Wellbeing First for Healthcare coalition, led by the Dr. Lorna Breen Foundation
• Wellness Alliance Gold-Level Well Workplace Award

These recognitions reflect MedStar Health's ongoing investment in the wellbeing of our associates, as well as our commitment to advancing healthcare wellbeing through innovation, collaboration, and measurable impact.

Innovation and Thought Leadership

Advancing the future of healthcare wellbeing.

The MedStar Health Center for Wellbeing brings together healthcare leaders, researchers, educators, clinicians, and industry partners to develop and share innovative approaches that strengthen healthcare organizations and support the people who power them.

Our work focuses on translating research into practice, identifying scalable solutions, and creating meaningful change across healthcare systems.

Areas of Focus

• Evidence-based approaches to healthcare worker wellbeing
• Graduate Medical Education wellbeing initiatives
• Leadership and culture development
• National Nurse Wellbeing Conference
• National Nurse Wellbeing Consortium
• Research and academic collaborations
• Stress First Aid and workforce support frameworks

For more information, contact us at wellbeing@medstar.net.

Research, Publications, and Resources

With a focus on clinician wellbeing and support for trainees and caregivers, the Center for Wellbeing’s published research highlights several related areas of scholarship:

• The layered safety net: mental health programming in GME: Details best practices from and the positive impact of MedStar Health’s graduate medical education system design to improve wellbeing and access to mental health support.

• Impact of senior leadership on wellbeing and retention: Satisfaction with senior leadership has a stronger association with departure risk than satisfaction with direct supervisors, reflecting the importance of organizational approaches to improving wellbeing in health care. Related work in a urology residency similarly emphasized how institutional factors shape trainee mental health.

• Documentation burden, physician preferences, and efficiency: There is a growing body of literature demonstrating how documentation processes and policy affect clinicians. Importantly, preferences mediated the relationship between after-hours documentation time, and ambulatory physician departure. Earlier studies in this line found that note length, copy-paste practices, and documentation strategies are associated with burden and efficiency, helping clarify which aspects of electronic health records (EHR) work are most consequential for clinicians.

• Scribes and meaningful work in training: Reductions in EHR time with the presence of scribes led to increased time spent in direct patient care for first-year internal medicine residents, aligning documentation support with more meaningful clinical work during training.