Dr. Kavitha Reddy, M.D. FACEP ABOIM
I had the privilege of interviewing my friend and colleague, Dr. Kavitha Reddy on how she, along with her team at the Veterans Health Administration are re-designing their healthcare culture over the next several years by focusing on creating a healthier work environment for all employees, and patients!
Title: How The Veterans Health Administration is Spearheading Culture Transformation through Designing a Model of Well-Being for both Patients and Employees
Topics of Discussion:
- How does your Whole Health Approach with the VHA empower your patients and employees to live their lives to the fullest?
- What are some key initiatives that your organization has deployed to address the top drivers of burnout?
- How has your Whole Employee Health Program positively impacted your workplace perceptions, reducing turnover and promoting supervisor/manager leadership training?
- What are some of the top lessons you have learned over the past several years in terms of implementing successful well-being initiatives?
- Why is leadership an essential component to cultural transformation in healthcare?
- What is the Re-Boot Task-Force? How is this impacting staff and employee well-being on a national level?
Listen to the complete podcast to hear the discussion.
Kavitha Reddy, MD. FACEP ABOIM
Dr. Kavitha Reddy trained at University of Missouri in Kansas City, receiving her BLA and MD from that institution in 2000. She completed her residency in emergency medicine at University of Illinois in Chicago in 2003 and is certified through the American Board of Emergency Medicine. She has practiced in several academic, community, and rural hospitals and is a fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians. She graduated from the University of Arizona Integrative Medicine Fellowship in 2014 and is board certified through the American Board of Integrative Medicine.
Kavitha Reddy is currently an emergency medicine physician at VA St. Louis Healthcare System in Missouri. She had practiced at Jesse Brown VAMC in Chicago IL for 5 years prior to that where she was the patient-centered care coordinator and Assistant Professor in Emergency Medicine at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She has received several awards for excellence in teaching medical students and residents.
She served as the Whole Health System Clinical Director at the VA St. Louis Healthcare System, one of the flagship facilities for Whole Health deployment, and remains a consultant to the Whole Health team. In addition, she is an Assistant Professor in Emergency Medicine in the Department of Medicine at the Washington University School of Medicine. She is the Principal Investigator at the St. Louis enrollment site for the national multi-site NIH-funded wHOPE trial (Overall PIs: Karen Seal & Will Becker), led by the San Francisco VA Health Care System (SFVAHCS) and VA Connecticut Healthcare System (VACHS).
She has worked closely with the Office of Patient-Centered Care and Cultural Transformation (VHA OPCC & CT) as a clinical champion for the Integrative Health Coordinating Center since 2011, helping with several projects such as policy, regulation, creating business infrastructure for delivery of complementary and integrative health, and whole health clinical care transformational efforts .
She is the Associate Director of Employee Whole Health for VHA OPCC & CT. She is a Member-At-Large on the Board of Directors for the Academic Consortium of Integrative Medicine and Health since May of 2022.
Her personal interests include hiking, biking, travel, reading, music, and spending time with friends and family.
Dr. Katie Cole
Affectionately called “The Healer’s Healer,” Dr. Katie Cole is an award-winning psychiatrist and consultant who works with physicians and organizations to reinvigorate their passion for medicine, create healthier work/life balance, and prevent costly burnout.