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Healthcare Stories
Presented by the Resiliency Center, the Center for Health Ethics, Arts, and Humanities, and UtahPresents
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Healthcare Stories
Presented by the Resiliency Center, the Center for Health Ethics, Arts, and Humanities, and UtahPresents
Healthcare Stories: Together
COMING MARCH 5, 2026
Healthcare Stories provides a rare public space for people to share their experiences of health and healthcare.
Why healthcare in particular? There’s so much vulnerability around health, illness, injury, grief – and even joy. Why do people come? To connect to other people, learn about their community, and experience a collective sense of awe at being part of something larger.
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THIS SEASON, THE HEALTHCARE STORIES THEME IS "TOGETHER".
2026 Storytellers
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Together is the way that we get things done. The spoken and unspoken ways that we depend on each other. This year’s healthcare stories might be about taking on complex challenges as a community, the ripples that spread from a single conversation or event to create waves, seeing the good in each other when we can’t see it in ourselves, or how we witness and celebrate defining moments of what it means to be human.
Join us for a night of stories from clinicians, patients, family members, staff, faculty and students reflecting on the theme “Together” in the context of health and healthcare.
University of Utah Staff and Faculty are eligible for a 20% discount using coupon code "FACULTYUP".
WHY DO OUR HEALTHCARE STORIES MATTER?
Healthcare Stories Director, Gretchen Case, PhD, and Storyteller Beth Vukin, MD, join Good Things Utah to share about why communities need stories - both to hear them and to share them.
PAST HEALTHCARE STORIES RECORDINGS
On Feb. 6, 2025, UtahPresents, the Resiliency Center, and the Center for Health Ethics, Arts, and Humanities presentedd an evening of storytelling with the seventh installment of Healthcare Stories at Kingsbury Hall. This year’s theme was “Joy” – our lived experience of connecting to or longing for delight, glee, triumph, and feeling fully vital and alive. Stories explored themes reflecting on experiencing the impossible, witnessing the miraculous, working through tribulation, beholding the harvest of hard work or a life’s work, simply being present to the pleasures, people, and generosities of the everyday.
On February 1, 2024, the Resiliency Center and the Center for Health Ethics, Arts, and Humanities presented the sixth in the series of Healthcare Stories at Kingsbury Hall. This year’s theme was “Promise.” Stories addressed imagined futures, potential pathways, new opportunities, vows, commitments, and moments of growth, as well as journeys that took unexpected detours and relationships that changed.
On June 1st, 2023, the Resiliency Center and the Center for Health Ethics, Arts, and Humanities presented the fifth in the series of Healthcare Stories. This year’s theme was “Wonder.” Stories addressed discovery, questioning, the wonderful things that bring you awe or delight, what stops you in your tracks and causes you to reflect, and things that make you say, “I wonder.”
Meet the Healthcare Stories Team
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Gretchen Case, PhD
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Megan Call, PhD
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Betsy Holm
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