Solidarity Week for Compassionate Patient Care

Solidarity Week for Compassionate Patient Care is a special week that takes place each year around Valentine’s Day to celebrate patients and clinicians and the special bond of trust and compassion that yields the best care. This year, Solidarity Week will be held February 12-16, 2024!

Led by the Gold Humanism Honor Society, Solidarity Week is open to GHHS chapters and healthcare institutions around the world. In 2023, the week-long celebrations were filled with special activities created to honor patients, recognize clinicians, and focus on the human connection that is so important to healthcare.

If you plan to participate in Solidarity Week 2024, be sure to share your plans and request free stickers!

We welcome you to share your Solidarity Week 2024 photos with us! This is a great way to amplify your initiative. Please tag @goldfdtn on Twitter and Instagram so we can share your celebrations with the whole Gold community.

2023 Solidarity Week

The participation from our chapters during 2023 Solidarity Week for Compassionate Patient Care was beyond inspiring. The week-long celebrations were filled with special activities created to honor patients, recognize clinicians, and focus on the human connection that is so important to healthcare. We are grateful to all of our members for the ongoing humanistic impact that they are having in their communities.

How did Solidarity Week start?

The national Gold Humanism Honor Society office established National Solidarity Day for Compassionate Care in 2011 to highlight the nation-wide movement promoting clinician-patient relationships based on caring, personalization, and mutual respect. Momentum gathered particularly after the Senate passed a resolution in 2013 and 2014 to officially recognize Solidarity Day on the national calendar, and it is now typically celebrated on or around Valentine’s Day. Beginning in 2016, many chapters celebrated a week of events instead of just one day.

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