Programs
Schwartz Center Rounds
Clinical Pastoral Education
Compassionate Caregiver Award
Patient Initiative
Speaker Series

Schwartz Center Rounds®
A multidisciplinary forum where caregivers discuss difficult emotional and social issues that arise in caring for patients. Over 26,000 clinicians attend Rounds annually at over 160 sites in multiple states.

Difficult Conversations
Modeled after the Schwartz Center Rounds, Difficult Conversations was developed for medical, nursing and allied health professional students, the next generation of caregivers. The Schwartz Center successfully piloted this program at the MGH Institute for Health Professions and Northeastern University in Boston to help students respond to the difficult social and emotional aspects of illness. For more information, contact Marjorie Stanzler, Director of Programs at 617-726-0914.

Clinical Pastoral Education Program for Health Care Professionals
Schwartz Center funding enables physicians, nurses, social workers and other clinicians to participate in a clinical pastoral education (CPE) program at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and Yale-New Haven Medical Center in New Haven, CT.

Compassionate Caregiver Award
The award is presented annually at the Schwartz Center fall dinner to a Massachusetts caregiver who displays extraordinary compassion in caring for patients. For more information, contact Heather Schwartz, Program Coordinator, at 617-724-7576.

To view the video "Five Caregivers: One Vision" which profiles last year's finalists click here.

Patient Voice for Compassionate Care: Schwartz Center Dialogues
As part of ongoing efforts to expand its programs beyond caregivers to support and involve patients and families more directly, the Schwartz Center has designed a unique new patient-centered initiative. The Patient Voice for Compassionate Care: Schwartz Center Dialogues will bring the experiences and perspectives of patients and their families directly to caregivers in a series of facilitated discussions.

For tips on communicating with your caregivers, click here.

Speaker Series
The Schwartz Center presents speakers and public panel discussions that raise awareness about the patient-caregiver relationship in our changing health care environment.