Unplugged Event Featuring Steinway Piano

The first of three Great Music Unplugged events, a Kienle collaboration with Peter Sirotin, featured acceptance of the generous donation of a Steinway D concert grand piano in Lecture Room D. Keith Cheng, MD, and Shou Ling Leong, MD, selected, purchased and donated the piano. They worked with Robert Rinaldi, executive vice president for service and chief operating officer of Jacobs Music Company in Philadelphia, to select just the right piano to enrich our medical community.

Lorna Davis posts a “More About Me” poster in a patient room.

Kienle staff visits with patients admitted to the hospital.  During a brief chat, staff learn three important nonmedical pieces of information about the individual.  They create signs and post these three items over the patient’s bed so that healthcare providers can engage with the patient on a more personal level.  This program’s intent is to positively impact patient and healthcare provider experience.

 

LaDora Field and Louann Benedict (not pictured) also visit patients who are admitted for longer-term stays.

Center Stage Arts in Health answered The National Academy of Medicine (NAM) call for artists to submit examples of art to show what clinician burnout, well-being, and resilience means. With the support of funding from the Doctors Kienle Center for Humanistic Medicine, Center Stage Arts-in-Health created a workshop on “Clinician Well-Being & Resilience Through Art,” which included a musician and several guided art projects.

The resulting descriptive poster was awarded winner status by NAM. The event was featured in a nationwide NAM pop-up gallery in May 2018 at the National Academy of Sciences. NAM’s review committee thought the “Resiliency Workshop” was particularly insightful and a thought-provoking addition to its exhibit. In addition, Penn State employees’ artwork will be displayed in a permanent online gallery at nam.edu/expressclinicianwellbeing.

The pop-up gallery was hosted in Washington, DC, in conjunction with a public meeting of NAM’s Action Collaborative on Clinician Well-Being and Resilience. Kienle and Center Stage Director Claire de Boer attended the collaborative meeting.

https://sites.psu.edu/kienlecenter/clinician-well-being-and-resilience/

“Moms in Medicine” enabled healthcare providers, who are also mothers, to come together to share their experiences.  Also they have the benefit of a guided “Art as Self Care” project taught by professional artists and hosted by Center Stage arts in health staff. This activity is created to be a peaceful night out, to build community with others finding their way through this intense time in their lives.