The top items on 5 chief medical officers’ to-do lists

Connie Savor Price, Chief Medical Officer of Denver Health [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine]: With the current workforce shortages, “tripledemic” and everyday demands, the challenge of burnout in healthcare should be at the top of every hospital CMO’s to-do list right now. Many healthcare workers are leaving the profession, further compounding shortages. Those who remain are experiencing mental health impacts from the unrelenting pressures of their daily work.