Bedside Performance
Program
Live performances are given by volunteer artists who give in-room performances for patients undergoing treatment or who are unable to leave their hospital beds. To date we have played for over 170,000 individuals and their families. Musicians On Call has regularly scheduled weekly performances at the following facilities:
Live performances are given by volunteer artists who give in-room performances for patients undergoing treatment or who are unable to leave their hospital beds. To date we have played for over 170,000 individuals and their families. Musicians On Call has regularly scheduled weekly performances at the following facilities:
New York:
- The Children's Hospital At Montefiore
- Elizabeth Seton Pediatric Center (a nursing facility for neurologically impaired children)
- Kravis Children's Hospital at Mount Sinai (Grant for weekly in-hospital, closed circuit Musicians On Call television programming)
- Lenox Hill Hospital
- Lutheran Medical Center (Supported by the May Ellen and Gerald Ritter Foundation
- Memorial
Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center: Pediatric In and Out Patient;
Adult In-Patient
- Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital of New York-Presbyterian
- Mount Sinai Hospital of Queens
- Mount Sinai Medical Center: Oncology
- New York-Presbyterian - Columbia University Medical Center: Oncology
- New York-Presbyterian - Cornell Hospital
- NYU Langone Medical Center:Epilepsy and Physical Rehabilitation
- NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases
- Rivington House (a skilled nursing facility for people with HIV and AIDS)
- Roosevelt Hospital: Oncology, HIV/AIDS, Rehabilitation
- Village Nursing Home
Musicians On Call has partnered with WXPN, the nonprofit public radio station of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. This is Musicians On Call's first expansion out of New York and WXPN Musicians On Call now delivers weekly music to the bedsides of patients at the following healthcare facilities:
Nashville:
Musicians On Call opened its first national chapter in Nashville in
April 2007. In our first year, we established three weekly live bedside
performance programs at Vanderbilt University Medical Center's Adult
Hospital and have played for over 20,000 individuals. In our second
year, we expanded to Vanderbilt Children's Hospital, the Vanderbilt
Infusion Clinic 100 Oaks as well as the long-term care facility at
Bordeaux, part of Nashville's city healthcare system. We also have programs at VA-Tennessee Valley Healthcare System's Nashville Campus. To find out more
about our programs in Nashville, click here.
Miami:
Our second national chapter in Miami/South Florida started September 1st 2009. We have weekly programs at:
Miami:
Our second national chapter in Miami/South Florida started September 1st 2009. We have weekly programs at:
- Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital in Hollywood, FL
- South Miami Hospital, part of the Baptist Health South Florida System
On average,
over 20,000 patients receive inpatient care on a daily basis in New York
City hospitals. With such high numbers of people in healthcare facilities,
opportunities for enhancing the quality of patient care, such as the Performance
Program, are extremely beneficial. It has been demonstrated that live
music can lower blood pressure and reduce depression and anxiety in hospital
patients. Since the beginning of the last century, the medical field recognized
that music helped veterans from the First and Second World Wars recover
from both emotional and physical traumas. Music could help calm patients,
alleviate pain and help lift symptoms of depression. The one-on-one interaction
between the musician and patient has a powerful effect. For a brief time,
the patient can transcend being in a healthcare facility.