Johnson & Johnson/Society Grant Awardees 2010

The 2010 annual Johnson & Johnson/Society for the Arts in Healthcare Partnership to Promote the Arts in Healing awarded a total of $240,000 to four selected organizations using art to help bridge the gap between illness and health in innovative ways. Through an annual review for continuation, awarded organizations will have the opportunity to replicate, document, and disseminate their programs nationally and internationally over a three-year grant period.

Chosen from over 170 proposals, the following arts projects serve patients and their families and caregivers in a variety of healthcare settings and communities to advance healing and preventative health.

1. The Mark Morris Dance Group, Dance for PD Brooklyn, NYThis grant will help support the transformation of the internationally acclaimed Dance for PD program into a quality-controlled international network of classes that demonstrably improve the quality of life for people with chronic illness. Expansion will spread the benefits of dancing to a wider PD population, better support caregivers, and create multiple avenues for potential research. 

2. Smith Farm Center for the Healing Arts, Military Hospital Artist-in-Residence Program Washington, DC

This grant will help support a successful arts in healthcare program to be brought to a new population--US military personnel and their families. Smith Farm Center, in partnership with the American Red Cross, will replicate their effective hospital-based Artist-in-Residence program in two military hospital settings (the National Naval Medical Center and the Walter Reed Army Medical Center), serving at least 3,000 wounded warriors, retired veterans, and family members over three years. 

3. Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare Foundation, Caring with the Assistance of Live Music (CALM) Tallahassee, FL

This grant will help support replication of the CALM Procedural Support Program at Memorial Hospital and Manor, a rural hospital in South Georgia. The CALM program was created to reduce pain and anxiety; eliminate the use of sedation; and improve mood and coping skills for infants, children, and adults during noninvasive and minorly invasive medical procedures, through the use of evidence-based music interventions provided by a board-certified music therapist. Grant funds will also support the production of 100 training DVDs and manuals and travel to introduce the program at rural hospitals. 

4. Yale University, Looking Is Not Seeing and Listening Is Not Hearing New Haven, CT

This grant will help support the evaluation, refinement, and dissemination of Looking Is Not Seeing and Hearing Is Not Listening, a program designed to improve nursing students' physical assessment skills using visual arts and aural music training, thereby promoting safer and more effective patient care.