Hello and welcome to GrittyWorkTM! GrittyWork is a collaborative endeavor set out to drive improved outcomes for our workforce, patients, and organizations. Our hope is to revolutionize the way we...
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We are on a mission—to revolutionize the way we approach work and work design within the healthcare sector. Our goal is to drive improved outcomes for our workforce, patients, and organizations. On our website, you’ll find several key offerings:
- The latest evidence-based practices for enhancing workplace performance.
- Our GrittyWork Blog, where our team explores emerging literature and innovative methods for evaluating workplace practices.
- Updates on GrittyWork, our safety management platform, including its current applications and future developments.
- An invitation to join us in this collaborative endeavor—because this mission is too vast to undertake alone.
Together, let’s shape the future of work in healthcare!
Workforce Insights
There are workload thresholds at which clinician and patient care outcomes decline.
By understanding and implementing optimal care models, we can:
Improve clinician wellness
Drive the best patient outcomes
Enhance operational efficiency
Make smart financial decisions
Our Focus
Actively and passively collect clinician perception of work
GrittyWork Mobile Application will pair with clinician scheduling software to pulse brief surveys
Pair electronic health record data with GrittyWork App to determine workload thresholds that drive outcomes
Understand optimal workloads
Develop surveillance platform with decision support to detect when workloads are causing harm
Provide insights into workload thresholds
Data network within the platform that utilizes predictive analytics to project financial and clinical outcomes based upon staffing models
Smart staffing solutions and decision support that pairs worker safety, patient safety, and institutional outcomes
Research Hub
Below you can find featured manuscripts focused on work done by the GrittyWork Team and collaborators:
Harnessing the Power of Hospitalists in Operational Disaster Planning: COVID-19
Bowden, Kasey ; Burnham, Ellen L. ; Keniston, Angela ; Levin, Dimitriy ; Limes, Julia ; Persoff, Jason ; Thurman, Lindsay ; Burden, Marisha
The Impact of Hospital Capacity Strain: a Qualitative Analysis of Experience and Solutions at 13 Academic Medical Centers
Arogyaswamy, Sagarika ; Vukovic, Nemanja ; Keniston, Angela ; Apgar, Sarah ; Bowden, Kasey ; Kantor, Molly A. ; Diaz, Manuel ; McBeth, Lauren ; Burden, Marisha
Discharge Today: the Efficacy of a Multi-disciplinary Discharge Team
Bowden, Kasey ; Keniston, Angela ; McBeth, Lauren ; Perica, Katharine ; Burden, Marisha
Hospitalists’ perspectives on challenging patient encounters and physician well-being: A qualitative study
Fosnot, Lisa ; Jones, Christine D. ; Keniston, Angela ; Burden, Marisha ; Indovina, Kimberly A. ; Patel, Hemali
GrittyWork Blog – Designing for Success
GrittyWorkTM Team
Marisha Burden, MD, MBA
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Hospital Medicine Division Head
Angela Keniston, PhD, MSPH
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Director of Data Analytics
Lauren McBeth, BA
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Data Analytics Principal Professional
Kelsey Hussey, BA
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Website and Digital Marketing Senior Specialist