The National Relationship-Centered Care Network

The Fetzer Institute formed the National Relationship-Centered Care Network which is made up of individuals working in the health professions as clinicians, educators, administrators, and consultants.

Many national network members are engaged in collaborative projects focused on practices, research, and teaching. These projects extend the concept of relationship-centered care, document its effectiveness, bring it into medical and health professions education, and engage students, clinicians, funders and other stakeholders in health care in designing systems and curricula.

The Network supports and encourages individuals, allowing them to return to their work with renewed vision, vigor, strength, and the support of a caring network. This goal is to encourage individuals who are working within the system to do so with integrity and become models of relationship in action.

For additional information about the National Network, contact:

Fetzer Institute at (616) 375-2000
or visit the National RCC Network's Web site at: http://www.fetzer.org/rcc.


"Health care is an activity that involves many people-patients, families, caregivers, organizational managers, community leaders, etc.-within a complex matrix of personal, professional, and community relationships. . . . It is…an essentially human activity, undertaken and given meaning by people in relationships with one another and their communities, both public and professional."
--Health Professions Education and Relationship-Centered Care: Report of the Pew-Fetzer Task Force on Advancing Psychosocial Health Education