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Orange County Arts Commission Grant for DooR to DooR of UNC Health Care
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<br /> Organizational Profile- Mission and History
<br /> Our mission,since 1991,when The DooR to DooR program of UNC Health Care was
<br /> founded in association with UNC Hospital Administrators and Physicians,is to bring life
<br /> and joy and solace to the patients,their families and.the care giving staff by integrating into
<br /> the hospital environment the gifts of our community's finest artists. Chosen for their
<br /> artistic excellence and communication skills,and then escorted directly to the patients for
<br /> visits running from S -20 minutes,well over 2,000 artists have visited well over 100,000
<br /> hospital denizens. UNC Hospitals has 804 in-patient beds.
<br /> DooR to DooR's excellent performing, (cello,piano,guitar, mandolin,violin, accordion,
<br /> flute, percussion,harp,hammer dulcimer,ukulele,lyre,bass,harmonica and a cappella
<br /> song) literary, (poet, actress,story teller,rap artist,) and visual artist, (painter,water
<br /> colorist,photographer, caricaturist, cartoonist,origami and collage maker,) bring their arts
<br /> into the patients' rooms,as well as Dialysis, Burn Center, Hospital School,Ambulatory Care
<br /> Center, staff rooms, Oncology and Chemotherapy Clinics,Surgery, Emergency, Pediatric
<br /> Waiting Areas and lobbies,which become mini-theaters and classrooms. Those visits
<br /> evoke words like these from patients, staff and our artists:
<br /> Patients:
<br /> "It was very uplifting. " Before visit: "Low" After: "Great" Adolescent Psychiatry
<br /> "I think door to door is a wonderful program. I've been in the burn unit for two weeks now
<br /> without a single visitor,but having Joy and Teresa come to see me lifted my spirits so so so
<br /> so much!!!!! Thank you! - Burn Unit, Patient Room
<br /> She made my day! Awesome!! It's good therapy for me! (My hands don't work very
<br /> well.)
<br /> Staff:
<br /> What a joy to have this group here today! They provided a lighthearted delightful
<br /> performance for several of our patients,Please return! Thanks, RN
<br /> A pharmacologist passing by said to me: The music changed my day, lightened my mood.
<br /> Thankyou for all you do!
<br /> Would like for someone to come to our clinic to share the music with our patients! They
<br /> love the music. Would like someone to come Monday(anytime) and Tuesday (anytime)
<br /> and Thursday(afternoon) Anytime we can have someone!
<br /> Artists:
<br /> The door to door program is the most rewarding work I have ever done as a performer.
<br /> Singing in the cancer patient's room is bringing a direct message of joy,beauty and
<br /> humanity to someone who desperately needs it,perhaps more than anyone in the world.
<br /> The results are almost always immediate and life changing.
<br /> DooR to DooR performing artists Jonathan Byrd, Guitar and Original Songs
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