Summer Communications Intern
Company/Organization: The Schwartz Center for Compassionate Healthcare
Description:
Background: The Schwartz Center for Compassionate Healthcare (www.theschwartzcenter.org) is a national nonprofit organization based at Massachusetts General Hospital and dedicated to strengthening the relationship between patients and caregivers and preserving the human connection in healthcare. Our offices are located at 205 Portland Street in Boston near the TD Garden and North Station and are easily accessible via the Green and Orange lines of the MBTA.Responsibilities:
The Communications Intern will assist the Schwartz Center in communicating its mission and programs to internal and external audiences via traditional and social media. This is a Monday-Friday position (schedule is negotiable) with an 8-10 hour a week minimum commitment. The intern will work with the organization’s senior director of communications and will be assigned independent projects with room for personal input and creativity.
Duties will include:
• Doing Internet and other research
• Developing media lists
• Following up on media requests
• Drafting simple press releases
• Drafting content for the organization’s print and electronic publications, website and social media outlets
• Assisting with other communications activities, as needed
Qualifications:
Requirements:We are seeking a journalism, public relations or communications major with strong writing and communications skills, knowledge of social media, and an interest in healthcare and nonprofit organizations. Applicants must be mature, organized, reliable, detail oriented and self motivated with a strong commitment to high quality work products and the ability to work in a small, fast-paced, deadline-driven office setting. Knowledge of Windows, Microsoft Word and Excel is required. Applicants must be currently enrolled in a higher education degree program.
Paid Internship Info:
unpaid, school credit available
Hours:
8-15 hours/week
Length/Availability:
Summer
End Date:
5/31/13,
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The Schwartz Center for Compassionate Healthcare
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, support to caregivers and sustenance to the healing process
Shortly before his death from lung cancer at age 40 in September of 1995, Kenneth B. Schwartz, a loving husband and father and successful health care attorney in Boston, established an organization dedicated to strengthening the relationship between patients and caregivers in the changing health care system. Ken viewed the Center as a vehicle to advance the ideas, hopes, and concerns that he expressed in his article, ‘‘A Patients Story,’’ published on July 16, 1995, in the Boston Globe Magazine.
As Ken wrote in his moving article, ‘‘As skilled and knowledgeable as my caregivers are, what matters most is that they have empathized with me in a way that gives me hope and makes me feel like a human being, not just an illness.’’ Everyone who read Kens story related to it. Patients and families applauded Ken for giving voice to their fears and experiences and eloquently articulating the importance of compassion. Caregivers were reminded to stay in the moment with patients and, as Ken wrote, that the smallest acts of kindness made the unbearable bearable.’’
Kens experience was seminal. During his ten-month ordeal, he came to realize that what matters most when a medical issue arises — whether for ourselves or a loved one — is the ‘‘human connection’’ with our health care professionals.
In 2005, the Schwartz Center celebrated its tenth anniversary. Ken could not have imagined the breadth of support accorded the Center in its short history. The Center seeks to sustain Kens vision of a more compassionate health care system, and has become a catalyst for change in health care, creating pioneering programs that teach caregivers to combine science with humanity and take pride in the ability to show compassion.
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205 Portland St
Boston, MA
Phone: (617) 724-4746
Email: hlolson@partners.org
Website: The Schwartz Center for Compassionate Healthcare
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