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Spotlight on Simmons

The Healing Power of Students' Touch

Here is a link to a recent Boston Globe article about a truly "hands-on" Simmons College service-learning project, in which physical therapy graduate students provided hand rubs to homeless patients at the Barbara McInnis House in Jamaica Plain, Mass. Click here to read the Boston Globe story.

The article also was the subject of a blog written by Julie Rosen, executive director of the Kenneth B. Schwartz Center, a non-profit organization focused on strengthening the patient-caregiver relationship.Click here to read blog.