Humanizing Case Studies

Highlighting the Exemplary

Role Models, Practices, Curricula, and Systems that Promote Humanized Care

If you look for them, there are so many bright spots. People, routines, courses, and clinical settings in our healthcare and medical education systems that go above and beyond to make sure that patients, families, caregivers, trainees, staff, and all members of the healthcare team feel valued and respected.

Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity

Highly committed to change, the Center is working to make healthcare institutions more equitable, communities more engaged, and health policies and practices more effective to eliminate disparities in health and healthcare – in Baltimore, the United States, and the world.

Flourishing at the End of Life

Patient-Centered Goals of Care Emerges from Respectful Conversations and Partnering with
Patients and Families

The healthcare professionals who pursue palliative care are truly special. These multidisciplinary teams are made up of doctors, nurses, pharmacists, chaplains, social workers, and others. Allaying fears, controlling pain (and other significant symptoms, finding care plans that are most aligned with patients’ values, and ultimately helping patients to die with dignity are some parts of the work of these wonderful teams.

The Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center’s Palliative Care Team won the American Hospital
Association’s 2023 Circle of Life Award which recognizes:

  • Emphasizing coordinated or integrated care delivery throughout all settings
  • Engaging underserved populations
  • Innovations in palliative care
  • Promoting palliative care in diverse populations
  • Using strategies for engaging communities
  • Treating partnerships with other health care organizations and practitioners, and
    initiatives within long-term care facilities.