Launching Lavender Response Teams Across a Health Care System

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the need for real-time support of health care workers after a stressful event occurrence. Code Lavender has been used in several hospitals for this purpose for over a decade. With the evolution of health care to include large health care systems comprised of several hospitals and clinics, one intercity health care system determined there was a need to implement a Code Lavender across all of its in-patient hospitals simultaneously. This article describes how this organization accomplished this and may serve as a resource for other health care systems interested in establishing their own version of Code Lavender.