We’ve hit a milestone: 300 Schwartz Center Rounds® sites in 38 states. Rounds are our signature program — a precious hour when doctors, nurses and other staff at hospitals and other healthcare organizations gather to openly and honestly discuss the social and emotional issues they face in caring for patients and families. They’re a chance for caregivers to connect, grieve, vent, explore and talk about all the things they don’t have time to talk about during their busy workdays. And Rounds now have an English accent: they’re held at 19 healthcare sites in England too.
Never in her wildest dreams did Margie Stanzler, one of the Schwartz Center’s founders and now our senior director of programs, imagine that Rounds would someday be so widespread. They were started as a pilot in April 1997 at Massachusetts General Hospital where Ken Schwartz (the Center’s founder and namesake) was treated for lung cancer. Later, staff at St. Vincent Hospital heard about the program and asked the Schwartz Center to help them start Rounds there too.
“Tom Lynch [Ken Schwartz’s oncologist] and I drove out on a very wintery day to help them with the first session,” recalls Margie. “They were very different from the sessions at Mass General, but just as good, and we knew if Rounds could work at two such different hospitals they could work anywhere. We never intended to replicate them, but then other hospitals started hearing about them and calling us. It was all word of mouth in the beginning.”
Rounds obviously fill a very deep need. While for many years our Rounds sites were all hospitals, now you can find our signature program in outpatient practices, nursing homes, two health plans, a home health organization and a hospice organization. And by the end of 2015, we expect to bring 175 additional sites into the fold.
And by the way, our 300th site is Kaiser Permanente South Sacramento Medical Center. Welcome aboard.
Never in her wildest dreams did Margie Stanzler, one of the Schwartz Center’s founders and now our senior director of programs, imagine that Rounds would someday be so widespread. They were started as a pilot in April 1997 at Massachusetts General Hospital where Ken Schwartz (the Center’s founder and namesake) was treated for lung cancer. Later, staff at St. Vincent Hospital heard about the program and asked the Schwartz Center to help them start Rounds there too.
“Tom Lynch [Ken Schwartz’s oncologist] and I drove out on a very wintery day to help them with the first session,” recalls Margie. “They were very different from the sessions at Mass General, but just as good, and we knew if Rounds could work at two such different hospitals they could work anywhere. We never intended to replicate them, but then other hospitals started hearing about them and calling us. It was all word of mouth in the beginning.”
Rounds obviously fill a very deep need. While for many years our Rounds sites were all hospitals, now you can find our signature program in outpatient practices, nursing homes, two health plans, a home health organization and a hospice organization. And by the end of 2015, we expect to bring 175 additional sites into the fold.
And by the way, our 300th site is Kaiser Permanente South Sacramento Medical Center. Welcome aboard.
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