Authors: Blair L. Sadler and Annette Ridenour with commentaries by Donald M. Berwick, Leland R. Kaiser, Roger S. Ulrich and Anita Boles

With compelling human stories, research-based evidence, and pragmatic advice, Transforming the Healthcare Experience through the Arts takes readers inside the process of creating healthcare organizations that honor the best in the human spirit and uplift the healthcare experience for patients, family members, visitors and staff.




This book includes:

• 36 case examples of exemplary healthcare arts projects and programs
• Research findings showing how the arts decrease pain, reduce stress, improve mood and accomplish many other vital purposes
• Extensive listings of contact information for artists, healthcare organizations and arts in healthcare organizations
• A CEO's perspective on arts programming
• A practical guide for arts program implementation, and more.
  
  The 36 case examples of arts projects in Transforming the Healthcare Experience through the Arts are divided into seven sections, addressing hospitalized patients, children, seniors, cancer patients, adolescents, public education, and healing from tragedy. They include a program that reduces pain and anxiety for children in hospital waiting rooms; art-making projects that reduce stress and depression among family caregivers of cancer patients; a singing-and-songwriting program at a residential home for seniors; and a broad effort using the arts to help Hurricane Katrina evacuees regain their sense of hope and direction.
  
  Authors of Transforming the Healthcare Experience, Blair Sadler and Annette Ridenour believe that this book can provide the right steppingstones to future generations of aspiring artists and health care professionals. They enthusiastically endorse the use of this book as required reading for higher education.

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