I’m sure it probably helps the staff as well.
Filling hospitals with art reduces patient stress, anxiety and pain
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#62I run https://healthcaresnapshots.com which publishes photos of healthcare projects from around the world.
We have found that there is a wide variety of styles within healthcare facilities from bland and cold to colorful and vibrant. My gut tells me that decision makers don't try new things for a variety of reasons, with one being that they don't know what the possibilities are that exist.
Articles such as this will hopefully help more people in the right places know what is possible and worth trying.
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#63No, I'm so sick of the local cancer centers rotating corps of musicians. Want me to get stabby? Keep playing your drum hippie...
Or if it's an "Art Installation"
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#64I have been working in some fast-growing software companies. Every few years, we change office and get one in a better place, with new furniture, fancier each time, tv monitor is everywhere, each wall had pictures and was colourful. I had to go to the hospital, nothing serious. It was so extremely sad to see 30-40 years old furniture, dark rooms that had never been re-painted, power outlets had been refurbished for t…
> Austerity in Spain means that there is no money for hospitals
Sorry where are you getting this information from? I have family in Spain that is expecting to get excellent healthcare from their supplemental health insurance.
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#65The hospital I work at was looking at cost saving measures. Someone realized we were paying $65k a year in art insurance. Generous people would loan the art to the hospital on the condition that the hospital would insure it. When times were good, the hospital had no issue paying for the insurance, but once we had to cut costs, it became clear we couldn't be a free art storage facility for citizens. They inventoried e…
It sounds like the type of expensive art that would be relevant rather in an investment bank than in a public hospital.
A decent non-trivial local artist's painting typically costs around $2000. $65K spent locally could've been a good gift for the local art community.
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#66This is known to anyone who plays the game Rimworld.
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#67But as a consumer I don't want to pay for art installations in hospitals in addition to the enormous hospital bills and healthcare insurance.
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#68I have been working in some fast-growing software companies. Every few years, we change office and get one in a better place, with new furniture, fancier each time, tv monitor is everywhere, each wall had pictures and was colourful. I had to go to the hospital, nothing serious. It was so extremely sad to see 30-40 years old furniture, dark rooms that had never been re-painted, power outlets had been refurbished for t…
> I know that there are countries where it is worse, I am happy that everyone in the country had free health care. But, it could be much better. Doctor's offices in the US look nicer than those in Italy, where I lived for a number of years. But ultimately, patients pay for that, and overall the US health care system is reaaaallllly expensive.
See this NPR interview with a healthcare expert from the Kaiser Foundation:
GARCIA-NAVARRO: I mean, why do people get hundreds of thousands of dollars in bills for staying in a hospital?
ROSENTHAL: Well, the first thing I tell people when they ask me this question is to go into your local hospital and look around. And the marble lobbies, the art, the concierges at the front desk - our hospitals look like not five-star hotels - seven-star hotels. I mean, I think the most stark thing when people go overseas is hospitals in Europe, which deliver really high-quality care. They look like junior high schools. You know, they're not fancy, but the care is good.
https://www.npr.org/2017/07/02/535240692/the-call-in-your-qu...
That's not to say there's not a happy, affordable balance.
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#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I know that there are countries where it is worse, I am happy that everyone in the country had free health care. But, it could be much better. Doctor's offices in the US look nicer than those in Italy, where I lived for a number of years. But ultimately, patients pay for that, and overall the US health care system is reaaaallllly expensive.
See this NPR interview with a healthcare expert from the Kaiser Foundation: GARCIA-NAVARRO: I mean, why do people get hundreds of thousands of dollars in bills for staying in a hospital? ROSENTHAL: Well, the first thing I tell people when they ask me this question is to go into your local hospital and look around. And the marble lobbies, the art, the concierges at the front desk - our hospitals look like not five-sta…
> They look like junior high schools. You know, they're not fancy, but the care is good.
Yes! That's exactly what my (limited) experience of hospitals in Italy was like. They're very plain, but the doctors know their stuff.
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#70They should probably qualify what kind of art seems to reduce anxiety. I could line a patient waiting room with H.R. Giger paintings, but that might not achieve the same result: https://slowsoulburn.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/hr_giger_du... http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-lwoGruDK7ww/TWaPQYPMQ9I/AAAAAAAAAc... https://slowsoulburn.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/hr-giger_00... https://pickadolla.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/elp…
I would be interested to know if this artwork actually would actually have the same result for certain people, i.e. goths, punks, or other alternative artists.
I would be pretty stoked to see H.R. Giger artwork in any place (I have visited his gallery & cafe!), but I think it might be bad to dwell on it for a long time, since it would probably push you towards thoughts about existential questions and the nature of humanity, things like that. Probably not the best subjects for when you're already anxious about possibly-life-threatening hospital situations, heh.