Hear Me Now Podcast
A place for deeply meaningful conversations that matter. Providence, the
nation's fourth-largest health care system, is dedicated to caring
for the whole person. A key element of this includes listening to patients,
their loved ones, our caregivers and communities. The twice monthly 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. The Hear Me Now Podcast empowers consumers to expect and
demand highly personalized, whole person care across the spectrum of their
encounters with health-care providers. The Hear Me Now Podcast also explores
socio-economic encounters and other issues that impact our individual
and collective sense of wellbeing. Contact us at
HumanCaring@providence.org.
Hear Me Now podcast winner of PR News Nonprofit Podcast of the Year award for 2022
About Seán Collins
Seán Collins is the host and a producer of the
Hear Me Now Podcast, a production of the Providence Institute for Human Caring. Collins comes
to the project with more than 35 years of broadcast experience in public
radio, including many years in senior management at NPR News where he
led a team that produced the network’s flagship newsmagazine,
All Things Considered. His work helped the network repeatedly earn Peabody and duPont-Columbia Awards.
Ira Glass has said, “He has a special gift for mulling over an issue
or phenomenon and then staking an utterly original way to cover it. His
work is ambitious, spiked with big ideas and small human moments. It does
one of the hardest and best things journalism can do: it scratches its
way to a new perspective.”
He was raised by a physician and a nurse and was discovered practicing
medicine without a license over the phone at the age of five. (He asked
an expectant father how far apart the contractions were and then reassured
him that they had plenty of time to make it to the hospital.)
Collins is a former Benedictine monk and lives quietly in Saint Louis with
a senior puggle named Gibson.