The Arnold P. Gold Foundation infuses the human connection into healthcare. We engage schools, health systems, companies, and individual clinicians in the joy and meaning of humanistic healthcare, so that they have the strength and knowledge to ensure patients and families are partners in collaborative, compassionate, and scientifically excellent care.

Humanism and Healing: Structural Racism and its Impact on Medicine

Gold Humanism Honor Society announces its 2020 National Initiative, which encourages members to use their leadership roles to start or extend conversations about racism and its impact on medicine/healthcare in their local communities and beyond, to create space for grieving, processing, and bearing witness around this topic, or to take action in one of many powerful ways that humanism can begin to heal.

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Listen to our new podcast, The Gold Connection

The first episode of The Gold Connection: A GHHS Podcast is up! It features a conversation with four representatives of the Gold Humanism Honor Society discussing the 2020 National Initiative. Listen on Spotify, Anchor, or through our podcast page.

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Announcing the 2020 Essay Contest winners

Congratulations to these 3 nursing students and 3 medical students for their moving essays on the human connection in healthcare! Many thanks to all who entered. We received so many compelling stories — more than 300 essays in all.

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NEWS
Jeffrey Silver Humanism in Healthcare Research Roundup – July 2020
July 31, 2020
The Jeffrey Silver Humanism in Healthcare Research Roundup features summaries of recently published studies on humanism in healthcare. To receive email notification of new studies once per month, enter your ... chevron_right Read more
Dr. Vivek Murthy: The power of human connection
July 15, 2020
Meet Dr. Vivek Murthy, 19th Surgeon General of the United States and recipient of the 2020 Vilcek-Gold Award for Humanism in Healthcare. From 2014 to 2017, Dr. Vivek Murthy served as the 19th Surgeon General of the United States. An internist, public health advocate, and tireless social entrepreneur who launched his first nonprofit at age 17, Dr. Murthy’s career in public health can be traced back to his childhood, not long after he and his family arrived in America.
17 Gold Student Summer Fellows to support patients who are particularly vulnerable in COVID crisis
June 24, 2020
As part of the Gold Foundation’s work to address the wide-ranging impact of COVID-19, these projects were chosen for their focus on populations who are facing healthcare disparities and are particularly vulnerable during this crisis.
Joint Gold-Planetree statement on preserving family presence during pandemics
June 9, 2020
The Arnold P. Gold Foundation and Planetree International participated in a “Pop-Up” Coalition of over 60 organizations to Preserve Family Presence in Challenging Times. The international group represented patient and ... chevron_right Read more
New Humanism in Health and Healthcare online course available for free at NextGenU.org
April 29, 2020
Developed in partnership with Oakland University’s William Beaumont School of Medicine, the competency-based course can be easily used by medical and nursing schools or individual students around the globe.
Reactivated PPE Portrait Project strengthens human connections in the COVID-19 crisis
April 29, 2020
Artist and Gold Foundation grantee Mary Beth Heffernan’s work that began during the Ebola crisis has found a new urgency and widespread adoption now. COVID-19 patients are isolated in so ... chevron_right Read more
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Q&A with professors of Humanism in Health & Healthcare course live cohort
August 7, 2020
Earlier this year, The Arnold P. Gold Foundation launched the free virtual course “Humanism in Health and Healthcare,” developed in partnership with Oakland University’s William Beaumont School of Medicine and ... chevron_right Read more
2020 Summer Reading for Compassionate Clinicians
July 31, 2020
Each summer, we compile a list of intriguing books published since last year’s list that might help strengthen clinicians’ commitment to compassionate care of both patients and themselves. This list ... chevron_right Read more
Led by medical students, Faces of the Frontline project shares stories of clinicians caring in the COVID-19 crisis
July 30, 2020
Faces of Frontlines is digital campaign that began at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic “to amplify the voices of those keeping us safe.” Learn more in this Q&A with two of the campaign's student leaders.
#ColoringCare pages by GHHS member Dr. Mike Natter
May 5, 2020
Coloring and creative expression can be cathartic, and the ongoing COVID crisis calls for both a celebration of our healthcare professionals and calming activities that help us all get through ... chevron_right Read more
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