The Children’s Hospital of Michigan art programs are designed to help patients by providing relief from stress and anxiety, distraction from pain, and a creative outlet for expression of emotion.
Patients engaged in the creative arts are more likely to initiate processes that help them manage stress, reduce negative mood states and change behavior that will impacts recovery. Art is used to aid both inpatient and outpatients and their families through difficult circumstances.
Children's Hospital of Michigan has developed creative partnerships with local art organizations to provide patients with the most up to date arts programming. Artists from the education departments of the Detroit Institute of Arts, Historic Pewabic Pottery and other literary and performing arts organizations train to work with patients at the bedside and in outpatient clinics.
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One art making program that partners both healing arts and family centered care initiatives is the Imagine Photo Club. The Imagine photo club was begun in 2009 with Hemodialysis patients to provide them with a creative outlet and an opportunity to create a photographic story of their lives , both in and out of the clinical setting. The IPC program uses photography as a tool to improve health and communication between patients, their families and the caregivers.
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