The Schwartz Center for Compassionate Healthcare

Our Mission:
To put compassion at the heart of healthcare through programs, education and advocacy.

Our Vision:
A world where all who seek and provide healthcare experience compassion.

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.

We provide research-based strategies, tools and the support that caregivers need to create and sustain cultures of compassion. Together with our members, partners and other supporters, we are bringing our vision to light by helping caregivers, healthcare leaders and others across all sectors of healthcare experience and share compassion through their work and in their organizations and communities.

We are making compassion a priority for every healthcare organization across the country and around the world.

The Schwartz Center provides education, training and support to our community of hundreds of healthcare members in the U.S., Canada, Australia and New Zealand, supporting hundreds of thousands of healthcare professionals each year. In partnership with the Point of Care Foundation, more than 280 hospitals, hospices and other healthcare organizations conduct the innovative Schwartz Rounds® program in the U.K. and Ireland. The program unites caregivers from a range of disciplines to share experiences, learn from each other and focus on the human dimension of medicine.