Hear Me Now | Providence Institute For Human Caring

Be heard

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

Be heard

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

Be understood

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.

Listen to our stories

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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Our stories

Storytelling and listening have health benefits, studies show, and are keys to whole-person care, which offers emotional, psychological, and spiritual support, in addition to medical treatments.

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Hear Me Now podcast

Hear Me Now podcast helps fulfill the unmet needs of patients, their loved ones, caregivers, and communities by offering a place for in-depth conversations that matter.

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Hear Me Now podcast: Conversations that matter

Clearing the fog

On today's program we explore life post-COVID with Dr. James Jackson, author of "Clearing the fog: From surviving to thriving with Long COVID — A practical guide" (Little Brown Spark, 2023).

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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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