The National Academy of Medicine (NAM) Action Collaborative on Clinician Well-Being and Resilience today announced the selection of 26 organizations to participate in the second cohort of the Change Maker Accelerators, a yearlong program designed to help health organizations implement and measure professional well-being efforts. The new cohort, launching this month, expands participation to include more community-based organizations and care delivery sites from every geographic region that are committed to addressing health workforce burnout.
Health care organizations are making measurable progress to reduce burnout and support clinician well-being, with recent polls showing improvement in self-reported well-being. The organizations selected to be Change Maker Accelerators are committed to building on these strides and using evidence-based strategies to address systemic challenges to well-being. The program provides participants with dedicated coaching, implementation support, and tools to continually improve their well-being operations.
“The Change Maker Accelerators model offers something truly unique in the health care well-being space: dedicated, personalized coaching that helps organizations turn commitment into action,” said NAM president Victor J. Dzau. “I’m thrilled to welcome this group of participants who are ready to do the hard work of driving meaningful change. With each cohort, we are building a growing body of evidence that will create a roadmap for sustainable well-being strategies across the entire health care sector.”
The Change Maker Accelerators program is distinguished by its coaching and peer-to-peer community model. Participants engage in monthly small-group discussions and full-cohort learning sessions where they share successes, challenges, and best practices—among the cohort group and with the full Change Maker community through webinars, resource guides, poster sessions, and forthcoming publications. This year’s cohort will benefit from the experience of pilot cohort members, several of whom will serve as coaches to the new participants. Together, they will form a community of practice focused on the shared goal of creating and measuring the progress of sustainable, evidence-based well-being interventions.
This program builds on the NAM’s landmark 2022 report, National Plan for Health Workforce Well-Being, which calls for collective action to address the systemic factors contributing to workforce burnout.
2026–2027 Change Maker Accelerators
- Advocate Health, Illinois
- Alameda Health System, California
- American College of Cardiology, District of Columbia
- Cambridge Health Alliance, Massachusetts
- Cancer Network of West Michigan, Michigan
- Children’s National Hospital, District of Columbia
- Community Health Network, Indiana
- CoxHealth, Missouri
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Massachusetts
- Essentia Health, Minnesota
- Indiana Hospital Association, Indiana
- Kansas City University, Missouri
- LECOM Health, Pennsylvania
- Legacy Health, Oregon
- Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, Illinois
- NYC Health + Hospitals, New York
- Parkland Health, Texas
- Penn State Ross and Carol Nese College of Nursing, Pennsylvania
- Tampa General Hospital, Florida
- University of Maryland School of Medicine, Maryland
- University of Hawaii at Manoa, School of Nursing & Dental Hygiene (SONDH), Hawaii
- University of Texas Southwestern, Texas
- University of Vermont Health, Vermont
- University of Virginia Health, Virginia
- VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, California
- The Wright Centers for Community Health and GME, Pennsylvania
Join the Movement
Organizations committed to health workforce well-being can sign up to join the national movement. Participating organizations will be eligible to apply for future cohorts of the Change Maker Accelerators and will receive first access to distilled learnings from current and past Accelerator cohorts.
Today, March 18, is National Health Workforce Well-Being Day, an annual commemoration of progress in pursuit of improved health workforce well-being and patient outcomes. Learn more about activities organized by the NAM and partners.
