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Our storytelling and listening program offers a safe place to record your story and make healthcare more humane.

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Be heard

Our storytelling and listening program offers a sacred place to record your story and make healthcare more humane.

Share your story
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We started Hear Me Now in 2016, at first with StoryCorps. Hear Me Now has the largest library of recordings of any healthcare system. Hear Me Now celebrates diversity, equity and inclusion to promote trust, understanding and healing.

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Storytelling has been an important part of Providence’s culture for more than 160 years. The founding Sisters used storytelling to spread the mission of service to all, especially the poor and vulnerable. Hear Me Now is part of this tradition.

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Hear Me Now podcast: Conversations that matter

Advances in Alzheimer's research

Is a cure within our grasp?

On today's program, host Seán Collins welcomes Dr. Steven Salloway, Dr. Rudy Tanzi, and David Shenk to discuss recent advances in Alzheimer's research and the possibility of early intervention and prevention.

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    Complete your advance directive

    An advance directive is a form that lets you name a person to speak for you if you can’t during a critical time. It’s not just for the elderly; anyone can become ill or be in an accident. Fill yours out today.

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    Humanizing Healthcare

    Storytelling and listening are keys to healthcare delivery based on emotional, spiritual, and psychosocial needs, as well as medical ones. For patients, storytelling and listening can help relieve stress, build resiliency, and offer a source of empowerment. For providers, storytelling and listening can enhance empathy, cultural literacy, and ease moral duress. Join experts from StoryCorps and Providence to discover how storytelling programs have moved the needle on creating cultures of healing.

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    We can humanize and reshape healthcare... with your help. Your generous gift today helps healthcare professionals go beyond treating patients' physical condition to also nurture their emotional, social and spiritual well-being, moving from a transitional act to a personal level of care.

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