Code Lavender
“Health workers, including physicians, nurses, community and public health workers, nurse aides, among others, have long faced systemic challenges in the health care system even before the COVID-19 pandemic, leading to crisis levels of burnout.” — Surgeon General Advisory, May 2022.
In these increasing emotionally troubling times, Code Lavender is a holistic rapid-response tool to meet the needs of health team members who have experienced trauma or stress. The team usually responds within 30 minutes. “It was an idea to indicate that we were going to respond as quickly as possible to a need for intensive emotional and spiritual support,” Cleveland Clinic’s Amy Greene told Huffington Post. “We thought originally that it would be for patients and their family members, but as it turned out, we started doing them mostly for staff.”
A tool for staff support
It’s a “crisis intervention tool used to support any person in a Cleveland Clinic hospital. Patients, family members, volunteers, and healthcare staff can call a Code Lavender when a stressful event or series of stressful events occurs in the hospital. After the code is called, the… team responds within 30 minutes.” — Rabbi Susan B. Stone
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Code Lavender in Minnesota
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