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Arts Engagement in Hospitals

Help us provide meaningful artistic interventions that inspire creativity and connection for our hospital patients.

Arts Engagement in Hospitals

Help us provide meaningful artistic interventions that inspire creativity and connection for our hospital patients.

Creating art and moments that matter

Staying in hospital to receive rehabilitation, palliative, or mental health care is often a difficult and isolating time for many patients and their families. That’s why with your vital support, the HammondCare Foundation can fund the Arts Engagement in Hospitals program.

This innovative program connects interested patients with professional artists, setting up one-on-one or group art sessions. By showing your support, you can help patients and their families in the toughest of times by helping to improve quality of life through creative pursuit, social connection and the joy of art-making, during their stay in a HammondCare hospital.

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We’re focused on enabling life engagement

Arts Engagement in Hospitals advances one of HammondCare Foundation’s key focus areas: innovation in care. Compassionate, evidence-based activities such as Arts Engagement in Hospitals are part of holistic care that can make all the difference when patients face very difficult days. 

Thanks to the generosity of donors like you, the Foundation can continue to improve quality of life for people in need. 

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A life memorialised in watercolour

Palliative care patient, Divy, used the program as an opportunity to have his portrait painted for his mother. During the two-hour session, the 29-year-old enjoyed respite from thinking about his battle with kidney cancer. Instead, he discussed his life, passions and hobbies – allowing Lead Artist, Annette Innis, to capture his essence in watercolour. Divy has a vibrant personality and loves a laugh, although he tires easily these days. He also shows maturity well beyond his years.

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“I’ve reached a stage where I have come to peace with what I am facing. I am confident it’s all in God’s hands.”

Divy

Palliative care patient

Help us make a difference

With your support, we can bring the Arts Engagement in Hospitals program to more HammondCare patients. Together, let’s improve their well-being through art-enabled creativity and connection.

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