Frontline Healthcare Leadership
This book grew from my own journey, one marked by unexpected leadership roles during my training and the startling realization that this is a universal experience in healthcare. Why does this matter? Because the actions of frontline leaders have a profound impact, shaping the lives of their teams and the people they serve.
-David A. Rogers, MD
UAB Resources
UAB offers an array of resources for individual and collective wellness. The Office of Wellness has compiled and organized these based on our five dimensions of wellness:
Emotional: Resources to help cope effectively with life’s stresses, create satisfying relationships, and develop the ability to adapt to change and difficult times
UAB Employee Assistance & Counseling Center: offers free, confidential support services to all UAB employees and their immediate household. Includes 15 free counseling and life coaching sessions
UAB Medicine Office of Wellness: Ph.D. and M.D. wellness champions offer conversations for growth & wellbeing. Available to faculty, physicians, Advanced Practice Providers, medical residents, medical students, biomedical graduate students, and post-doctoral fellows
Hopeful Healing: monthly support group for coping with chronic illnesses, offered through EACC
Coping Conversations: monthly virtual discussion to provide tools for coping with life’s stresses, offered through EACC
Physical: Resources to help take care of one’s body for optimal health and functioning
UAB Employee Wellness: provides resources and opportunities to help employees live well
eMedicine: offers on-demand, virtual healthcare
Urgent Care: offers quick, convenient access to healthcare for non-life threatening illnesses and injuries
UAB Medicine Addiction Recovery: offers individual, group, and an Intensive Outpatient Program for alcohol and substance use disorders. Classes and events, as well as recovery resources are also available
Sleep/Wake Disorders Center: provides advanced testing, diagnosis, and treatment of sleep disorders
University Rec Center: offers gym memberships, outdoor rentals, group classes, personal training, and intramural sports
UAB Walking Trails: eight routes offering a variety of distances all over the medical and academic campus
Weight Loss Medicine: offers services to individuals looking to lose weight and keep it off
Tobacco Cessation: offers individual and group coaching, as well as online resources, to help quit smoking
Intellectual: Resources to help recognize one’s creative abilities and expand knowledge and skills
UAB Learning & Development: offers opportunities to enhance professional development for UAB faculty and staff
LinkedIn Learning: online learning resource platform that helps employees learn business, technology, and creative skills. UAB offers free membership to benefit-eligible UAB employees.
Art Therapy: monthly virtual art group, hosted by EACC
The Common Thread: explore ways to create access for all through practical educational modules.
Spiritual: Resources to help one find and expand sense of purpose and meaning in life
Selfcare Studio: regular sessions to enhance creativity and focus on personal wellness
Pastoral Care: Chaplains are available (regardless of faith) for emergency visits, office/patient room visits, or home visits
Commission of the Status of Women: promotes gender inclusion and equity by supporting and improving options and opportunities for women
Alliance for LBGTQ Equality: provides advocacy, support, and networking for all, whether you identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or as an ally
African American Faculty Association: provides faculty with support and mentoring for professional development, advocacy, and networking for African Americans
Occupational: Resources to help one find a sense of satisfaction and enrichment with work that allows for meeting current and future financial obligations
UAB Ombuds: provides confidential, impartial conflict resolution assistance to UAB faculty, staff, mentored graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows for University related conflicts
Financial Wellness Program: offers personalized counseling, educational seminars and additional resources designed to help employees cope with financial stressors, build financial skills and feel confident about their future
UAB Incident Reporting: report car accidents, on-the-job injuries, property damage or hospital/clinic incidents
All Heersink School of Medicine community members who are interested are welcome to take advantage of these programs and resources if they choose to.
Additional Resources
Take 5 Tuesday Wellness Email: weekly newsletter that highlights 5 wellness resources (internal and external) to UAB.
MyHealthRewards: earn up to $350 for healthy behaviors. Available to all benefit-eligible employees that are enrolled in a medical plan
UAB Employee Perks Program: allows UAB faculty and staff to save money (real estate, travel, retail, electronics, etc.)
BWell App: explore wellness events on campus and UAB resources. App offers a customizable self-care plan, habit tracker, and a section for “finding calm” that includes breathing techniques, yoga and more.
myStrength app: provides access to web and mobile tools for increased emotional health and wellbeing