Jackson and Coker Locum Tenens Named a Wellbeing First Champion for Focus on Clinician Mental Health

Healthcare Staffing Leader is the Only Locums Organization to Receive Distinction from ALL IN: Wellbeing First for Healthcare

ALPHARETTA, Ga.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jackson and Coker Locum Tenens, a leader in staffing solutions for locum tenens including advanced practice, today announced it has been named a Wellbeing First Champion by ALL IN: Wellbeing First for Healthcare, a coalition of leading healthcare organizations that works to eliminate barriers to mental health care for healthcare professionals.

As a Wellbeing First Champion, Jackson and Coker Locum Tenens supports and embraces eliminating barriers to mental health care for clinicians who may need to seek or have sought treatment for mental health conditions that don’t affect their ability to practice medicine – and has verified its internal insurance applications and reference forms for locum tenens providers are free from intrusive and stigmatizing language around mental health care and treatment.

Jackson and Coker Locum Tenens is the first locums organization to be named a Wellbeing First Champion by ALL IN: Wellbeing First for Healthcare, which will review the company’s internal processes on an annual basis. Efforts in this area underscore and align with Jackson and Coker Locum Tenens’ exclusive locums partnership with the Dr. Lorna Breen Heroes’ Foundation, announced earlier this year, that aims to address physician and advanced practitioner burnout and mental health.

“We understand the profound responsibility we have in shaping processes that prioritize the wellbeing of physicians and advanced practitioners. Our designation as a Wellbeing First Champion exemplifies our dedication to fostering a supportive and non-invasive internal process, further enabling us to deliver a better locum tenens experience and help ensure that the healthcare professionals we work with thrive,” said Tim Fischer, president, Jackson and Coker Locum Tenens.

“Our health workers are experiencing a mental health crisis; and like everyone, they deserve the right to pursue mental health care without fear of losing their job. For years, institutional practices have subjected health workers to overly invasive questions about their mental health in licensing, credentialing, insurance, and other applications,” said Stefanie Simmons, MD, FACEP, chief medical officer of the Dr. Lorna Breen Heroes’ Foundation, which leads ALL IN: Wellbeing First for Healthcare. “We are thrilled to recognize Jackson and Coker Locum Tenens as the first locum tenens organization to be named a Wellbeing First Champion for ensuring their internal applications are free from intrusive mental health questions.”

About ALL IN: Wellbeing First for Healthcare

ALL IN: Wellbeing First for Healthcare, led by the Dr. Lorna Breen Heroes’ Foundation, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Thrive Global, and CAA Foundation, is a coalition of leading healthcare organizations, including the American Association of Colleges of Nurses, American College of Emergency Physicians, American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, American Hospital Association, American Medical Association, The Physicians Foundation, CHARM: The Collaborative for Healing and Renewal in Medicine, Johnson & Johnson: Center for Health Worker Innovation, Institute for Healthcare Improvement, American Nurse Foundation, Medicine Forward, National Black Nurses Association, Philippine Nurses Association of America and Schwartz Center for Compassionate Healthcare. We are committed to advancing a state where the healthcare workforce’s well-being is prioritized, and individual health workers feel valued and supported so they can sustain their sense of purpose and meaning in their work. We work to make beneficial progress against persistent mental health and well-being challenges that disadvantage our health workers, and therefore, our healthcare systems and the future of public health.

About Jackson and Coker Locum Tenens

Jackson and Coker Locum Tenens connects healthcare organizations of all sizes with physicians and advanced practitioners because we believe everyone deserves compassion and care. With 40+ years of fostering purposeful relationships, we transform lives through locum tenens staffing by combining unparalleled service and tailored solutions. Jackson and Coker Locum Tenens is part of the Jackson Healthcare® family of companies. To learn more, visit jacksoncoker.com.