'Our Peers Can Be The Best Teachers': Rural Hospitals Learn From One Another at Innovation Potluck

Summary: Rural healthcare workers are feeling burned out, exhausted, and hopeless. To fix this, leaders from rural hospitals across the country meet at a special event called an "Innovation Potluck." Instead of bringing food, they bring their best ideas for hiring and keeping staff.

They share secrets like partnering with big universities, offering down-payment help for homes, and even giving staff quirky perks like on-site oil changes and childcare at a space museum. The main rule of the event? "No jerks." By working together and sharing their recipes for success instead of competing, these hospitals are finding real ways to save rural healthcare.

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