The Schwartz Center is committed to supporting healthcare professionals with additional resources on caring for their patients, themselves and their teams during this challenging time. Please find COVID-19-related support information here.
In today’s fast-paced healthcare environment, crowded with competing priorities, the human connection is too easily overlooked, leaving caregivers burned out and patients and families fearful and suffering. Through innovative programs, education and advocacy, the Schwartz Center is working to support caregivers, healthcare leaders and others and bring compassion to every healthcare experience.
“These acts of kindness – the simple human touch from my caregivers – have made the unbearable bearable” – Ken Schwartz
We are a national nonprofit dedicated to bringing compassion to every healthcare experience. Watch our video, read our founder’s story in the Boston Globe Magazine, and check out our annual report.
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Hundreds of healthcare organizations around the world are Schwartz Center healthcare members and conduct Schwartz Rounds® to bring doctors, nurses and other caregivers together to discuss the social and emotional side of caring for patients and families.
This is the premier healthcare event in the Northeast. Dinner guests include nearly 1,200 leaders from hospitals, health plans and health-related associations, as well as members of the biotech, pharm
Connect with more than 850 professionals, system leaders and others who are committed to making compassionate healthcare a priority in their organizations and communities.
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