EXPERIENCES COMING NORTHEAST

The patients, employees, and visitors at Methodist Hospital | Northeast can participate in interactive art experiences five days a week, through the support of Hearts Need Art, a local San Antonio nonprofit organization. The mission of Hearts Need Art is to create moments of joy, self-expression, and connection for those facing life-altering health challenges through arts engagement, advocacy, and innovation.

In the fall of 2022, Hearts Need Art was awarded as the 2022 High Impact Grant Recipient for the “Arts and Culture” award by Impact San Antonio. As one of the largest collective-giving, grant-making organizations in the nation, Impact San Antonio empowers women to join together to achieve meaningful change. The grant awarded to Hearts Need Art will provide $100,000 in funding for “Artful Recovery for Healthcare” five days a week for forty-five weeks to the patients, employees, and visitors at Methodist Hospital | Northeast.

During the interactive art experiences, patients, employees, and visitors can participate in a variety of healing opportunities. The incredibly talented staff members at Hearts Need Art are able to host group or bedside art sessions, corridor concerts, holiday crafts, writing of poems, letters or haikus and other unique healing engagements to help individuals feel seen, heard, and loved while facing lifealtering health challenges.

These creative outlets allow a holistic approach to healing for patients, which further increases their overall patient experience while in the hospital. In addition to, providing stress relieving activities to improve the emotional and mental well-being of those within the healthcare profession, whom of which are still struggling with the impacts of the COVID-10 pandemic. Upon conclusion of the “Artful Recovery for Healthcare” grant, the data collected will be used to further advocate for increasing the need for arts within the healthcare industry.