Volume 11
Issue 15
July 22, 2016
PRESBYbulletin Penn Presbyterian Medical Center
HEALING WAVES OF ART Earlier this month, PPMC became home to more than 200 feet of shining, twisting, flowing aluminum. The new “Waves of Healing” sculpture was created and donated by Richard Montelone as a “thank you” to the Penn Medicine care teams who saved both of his parents’ lives. Monteleone hopes the piece, which is now suspended above the Cupp lobby, will help foster a calming and healing environment for families and loved ones of PPMC’s patients, a role he knows all too well. In the past three years, Monteleone has spent more than 30 hours at PPMC, and none of it as a patient. In 2014, his mother underwent a successful open heart procedure, and earlier this year, he returned again after his father suffered a heart attack and would also require open heart surgery. “Will he survive? What if he’s debilitated? Can my mom handle that?” Monteleone wondered as he waited for their doctors to deliver the news. “While we were waiting to hear about my dad’s surgery, I spent some time talking to other families who were waiting for their loved ones. All our stories were very similar. We spend a lot of time in the waiting area while our loved one is in surgery, wondering what the outcome will be. The waiting area is very important.” (continued on back)
Have Your Art Displayed at Penn Medicine Cherry Hill Calling all painters, photographers, printmakers, and craftspeople! Penn Medicine Cherry Hill is inviting all Penn faculty, staff, students, and patients to submit artwork to its first-ever art exhibition. The art exhibition will be on display throughout September 2016 at the new facility, with a focus on local south New Jersey artists. Submit your artwork to https://cfeva.slideroom. com/#/Login by August 5, 2016
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HEALING WAVES OF ART (continued from front)
The Cupp lobby, which became so familiar to Monteleone, was built in 1982, long before the aesthetic value of hospitals was a consideration. But now, as more and more studies have shown the positive impact of art on the healing process, design has become a critical component of facility development. Between his mom’s procedure in 2014, and his dad’s earlier this year, Monteleone literally watched the development of the Pavilion for Advanced Care (PAC) from the Cupp lobby. The two spaces, he said, were like night and day. Opened in 2014 to house Penn Medicine’s Trauma Center and several other critical care units, the PAC was designed with an eye toward creating an environment that promotes healing and comfort.
want to help counteract the grueling “ Iprocess of waiting for our loved ones with the beauty and spectacle of art ” “I want to help counteract the grueling process of waiting for our loved ones with the beauty and spectacle of art,” he said. “The new Pavilion for Advanced Care achieves this beautifully through its architecture, design and healing garden, and I hope that now the Cupp lobby will do the same.”
Waves of Healing was created specifically for the Cupp lobby and took nearly nine hours to install in the 400 square foot space. Each curve and each inch of placement, Monteleone said, was made in accordance with how the light interacts with the aluminum used for the sculpture.
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