As reported by Elizabeth Kramer, WFPL 89.3 FM:
"While Congress considers how America manages its healthcare system, some art and health organizations in Kentucky are pushing to instill art into the healing process.
Sure, art and music therapy programs already exist in many hospitals. And schools, including the University of Louisville, train these therapists whose work has specific medical outcomes. But having artists in health care centers, like The Kentucky Center is doing, is different, says Jeffrey Jamner, who oversees this new program.
“The intent of the program is to provide opportunities for patients, their families, for staff to encounter the arts, to have an artistic experience, that we believe will enhance their healing process,” Jamner says.
That idea has made inroads at some health care organizations. This year in Louisville, Norton Hospital, the James Graham Brown Cancer Center and other facilities have worked with the Kentucky Center to have artists there for a short-time with funding from the Humana Foundation. Administrators say the artists helped lighten the often somber and stressful environments."
Read and/or listen to the story on the WFPL site: http://www.wfpl.org/2009/12/01/kentucky-art-groups-health-facilities-weave-art-into-care/
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