Bedside Performance Program
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: 
 
New York:
Philadelphia:

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:
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.