The Schwartz Center for Compassionate Healthcare's mission is simple, but compelling: to promote compassionate healthcare so that patients and their caregivers relate to one another in a way that provides hope to the patient, support to caregivers and sustenance to the healing process. The Schwartz Center a national nonprofit dedicated to strengthening relationships between patients and caregivers and promoting compassionate, patient-centered care. 

The Center reflects the vision of Ken Schwartz, a Boston healthcare attorney who died of lung cancer at age 40 and found that what mattered to him most as a patient were the simple acts of kindness from his caregivers, which he said made "the unbearable bearable."​ He founded the Schwartz Center in 1995 to ensure that all patients are treated with compassion. The Center is housed at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, where Ken received his care.

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The Schwartz Center for Compassionate Healthcare

Jessica Thompson Somol

Lynn Wiatrowski

Charlie D. Baker

Beth Sampath

Tamar Thompson

Beth Lown

Elizabeth Hickman

Robert K. Coughlin

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