Downtown Newark Mural

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Downtown Newark Mural
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Creative Arts Healthcare

• Engaging the inner self to express and transform

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Because within each patient is a person
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The Two Fridas Frida Khalo
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Creative Arts Healthcare Recognizes, Values,
and HonorsOur Inner and Outer Life

• The Person who is the patient and their
  family
• The Personhood of the healthcare provider
• Breaks through despair and isolation
• Forges bonds of shared humanity
• Unites Bodies, Minds, Spirits
• Joins Right Brain with Left Brain
• Allows for Experiencing and Witnessing
• Promotes Creativity as a Healing Resource

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Creative Arts Healthcare Supports and Promotes

• Patient Satisfaction
• Family Satisfaction
• Staff Recruitment and Retention
• Compassion Fatigue/Burn Out Prevention
• Enhanced Community Relations
• Multicultural Awareness and Sensitivity
• Medical Care, Treatment, and Emotional Healing
• Humanism in Medical Practice

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Creative Arts Healthcare

• Monthly Grand Rounds
• Creative Artists in Residence Events
• Music Listening Program for Patients
• PALM Room Artist Facilitators
• Creative Arts Healthcare Program in Residence
• Arts in Medicine Health Initiative SIG
• Expressive Arts Workshops
• Deeply touching the lives of patients, family
  members, nurses, doctors, other health care
  providers, students, and also members of the
  Newark Community

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The PALM Program(Planned Activity Less
Medication)

• University Hospital created a program that
  provides a safe environment for patients
  experiencing difficulty in resuming independent
  functioning, isolation /loneliness and
  impediments to communicating /expressing oneself.
  
• Goals reorient patients, improve self care
  ability, improve with communication and express
  oneself, cope with illness/recovery enhance
  socialization/group experience

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Creative Arts Healthcare PALM Program Initiatives

• Certified ceramicist to conduct sessions
• Artists from the Wellness, Arts, Enrichment (WAE)
  Center (an alternative learning center for people
  with disabilities) are conducting three-hour
  session three times a week with patients
• Music therapist in residence
• CD Pharmacy
• RN training in Creative Arts