The Kenneth B. Schwartz Center

Dedicated to strengthening the relationship between patients and caregivers

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When caregivers and patients connect everybody feels better.

The essence of healing is caring for the whole patient — body and mind. Moments of engagement between patients and caregivers offer valuable opportunities for understanding illness, calming anxiety and providing hope. The Kenneth B. Schwartz Center conducts pioneering programs to educate, train and support caregivers in the art of compassionate health care. It's basic medicine.

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Featured Program Presentation: Palliative Care in 2009: Best Practices, Susan D. Block, MD
Featured Press Release: Chief of New Yale Cancer Hospital Appointed Board Chair of Kenneth B. Schwartz Center
Featured Press Release: Schwartz Center awards its largest grant ever to Norwood Hospital collaborative
Schwartz Center Research Summary: A summary of the scientific evidence that supports the work of the Center organized by category (eg, communication, compassion, cultural competency, end of life, etc.)

‘‘These acts of kindness — the simple human touch from my caregivers — have made the unbearable bearable.’’
Kenneth B. Schwartz

A PATIENT’S STORY
In 1994, Ken Schwartz developed lung cancer. Read his extraordinary story. More >>

COMPASSIONATE CONNECTIONS

Visit the Schwartz Center's newest patient-centered initiative at CarePages, where patients, families and friends create free online support communities... Visit >>

OUR MISSION
To support and advance compassionate health care in which caregivers, patients and their families relate to one another in a way that provides hope to the patient... More >>

SCHWARTZ CENTER ROUNDS
Our multidisciplinary forum where caregivers discuss difficult issues arising from patient care. More >>

CAREGIVER TESTIMONIALS
‘‘Every time I find a project or organization that supports the human dimension of medicine, the Schwartz Center supports it...’’ More >>