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We Believe…
“…for our patients who have lost so much, this creative experience provided by the compassionate therapist may be worth more than all of the medication administered
that day.”
Michele Moran Clancy, M.D.
Chief Medical Director of Hospice
Current Areas of Focus
 Visual Art
Music
Dance-Movement
Horticulture
Expressive Therapies
We incorporate many art forms and therapies in two divisions of care:
1. Therapeutic interventions with certified practitioners
2. Visiting Artist Program; use of visual art, live music, storytelling, creative writing, humor and quilting as an outlet to express emotions. Sensory stimulation is increased by the artist’s presentation of the medium.
Certified practitioners are members of a multidisciplinary team, working cooperatively to treat the physical, emotional and cognitive needs of our patients. Services of the Healing Arts Network are ordered by a physician and coordinated with the patient’s overall care plan. The initial assessment and first visit are provided through Healing Arts Network funding. Subsequent sessions may be provided if funding is available, or patients can choose to continue on a fee-for-service basis.
Patients can also request Healing Arts services at home for which they pay the practitioner a fee
for service.
Our Life Span
Since August 1997
We Receive Funding From
…the New Hanover Regional Medical Center Foundation and by grants.
We would love to hear from you
Lorraine Perry, founder and coordinator
Michele Erich, music therapist, co-coordinator.
New Hanover Regional Medical Center
2131 South 17th Street
P.O. Box 9000
Wilmington, NC 28402-9000
Phone: 910 343-7973
E-mail: LPerry@NHRMC.ORG
Click on our own web site for more information
www.nhrmc.org
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Horticulture
therapy with raised beds and wheelchair entry
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Storytelling
at an oncology patient's bedside
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Visiting
Harpist plays to an oncology patient who awaits chemotherapy
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The
Therapeutics, a singing group, perform in an oncology patient's
room
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Oncology
patient receives chemotherapy while quilting
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Humor
cart, wheeled to the patient's bedside by Humor Therapist
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Dance
movement therapist working with Rehab, patient and her husband in
warm water pool
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Acknowledgements:
This project received support from the North Carolina Arts Council,
an agency funded by the State of North Carolina and the
National Endowment for the Arts.
We
are also grateful for the support of the
Mary Duke Biddle Foundation and the Durham Arts Council.
Last Updated
November 25, 2005
Copyright
2001 - 2006, All rights reserved. NC Arts for Health
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