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Summer Non profit program Intern

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Company/Organization: The Schwartz Center for Compassionate Healthcare

Description:

Background: The Schwartz Center for Compassionate Healthcare is the only national nonprofit organization dedicated to strengthening relationships between patients and caregivers and promoting compassionate, patient-centered care.

Internship Period and Commitment: The Schwartz Center is seeking two candidates for summer 2013, from May – August. Internships are part-time and unpaid with a minimum commitment of 8-10 hours per week. The work hours are negotiable, but they must fit within the confines of a standard Monday – Friday work week.

Location: Our office is located near North Station and the TD Garden. It is easily accessible by both the green and orange line MBTA stops.

Summary: Non-profit Program Interns are an integral asset to the Program Team. These interns play a vital role in supporting the administrative efforts of the organization, including arranging managing clerical work such as filing, photocopying, executing complex mailings, and providing support on additional special projects. These individuals will work in close partnership with the staff to ensure the successful execution of day-to-day operations of the organization. In addition, candidates will have to opportunity to work on independent projects with room for personal input and creativity.

Duties may include:

• Assist in administrative and operational tasks to support the overall work of the Schwartz Center;
• Execute writing and research assignments, as needed;
• Investigate current trends within the area of compassionate/patient-centered healthcare in the areas of program development, grant making, partnerships, etc.
• Outreach to hospitals across the U.S. to help ensure program compliance;
• Processing nominations for the Schwartz Center Compassionate Caregiver Award®;
• Schwartz Center Rounds® database maintenance more than 300 participating sites across the country;
• Assist with other activities as needed.


Qualifications:

Requirements: Non-profit Program Interns must be mature, reliable, detail-oriented, and self-driven, with a strong commitment to their quality of work. Applicants should have an interest in healthcare and/or the nonprofit sector and have strong written, oral communications and interpersonal skills. Knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint is required. Applicants must be currently enrolled in a higher education degree program, and are preferably able to obtain college/university credit for their internship.

Paid Internship Info:

unpaid, school credit available

Hours:

8-15 hours/week

Length/Availability:

Summer

End Date:

5/31/13,



Tags:
programs    nonprofit    not  for  profit    non-profit    healthcare 
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The Schwartz Center for Compassionate Healthcare

Mission
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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