The Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin Endowment (AHW), Wisconsin’s largest health philanthropy, will invest more than $5.6 million over the next five years in projects designed to enhance the professional well-being of the state’s health workforce as an upstream effort to improve the overall health of Wisconsin. Building upon a commitment AHW Director Jesse Ehrenfeld, MD, MPH, made in 2024 to invest up to $10 million to support focused initiatives across Wisconsin to combat burnout and increase job satisfaction among Wisconsin’s healthcare and public health workers, AHW will fund a scalable, evidence-based strategy implemented by the Wisconsin Hospital Association (WHA) to improve health workforce well-being and support a statewide health workforce professional services program to be administered by the Wisconsin Medical Society (WisMed).

With a $3.2 million award from AHW, WHA will build a collaborative coalition to develop a long-term professional well-being improvement plan focused on Wisconsin’s healthcare and public health workers. The initiative will draw upon resources and expertise provided by the Dr. Lorna Breen Heroes’ Foundation, a national non-profit committed to safeguarding the well-being of healthcare professionals and an official partner to WHA in this important work.