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The Foundation For Photo/art In Hospitals, Inc. Charity Profile
Mission
White, cold, sterile walls – colorless, lifeless, and certainly not inviting - exemplify the traditional hospital setting. Patients often are under stress, in pain, afraid, and experience endless hours of loneliness. Staring at these walls is boring and depressing. However, the mood changes when there is something to look at and reflect upon. The unique mission of the Foundation is to place large, framed photographs of nature and beautiful places from around the world in hospitals to give comfort and hope to patients and their families, visitors, and caregivers. Studies show that nature art has a beneficial effect on relieving a patient’s stress and anxiety. The photographs are intended to provide color and an atmosphere of compassion where healing is encouraged.
Guiding Principles
We believe that beautiful nature images can help heal the soul, which in turn helps heal the body.
We support the researchers and practitioners who recognize the strong link between soothing hospital environments and patients’ improvement in health, both mental and physical.
We maintain that providing photos of nature and places from around the world to medical facilities will bring appreciation of the earth’s immense beauty.
We value the full range of human diversity and seek to cross cultures by speaking to different personalities through nature art – almost everyone enters a hospital sometime in their life, either as a patient or as a visitor, regardless of race, sex, religious affiliation, culture, and economic level.
Who We help
Beneficiaries of the Foundation include patients, their families and visitors, doctors, nurses, hospital staff, administrators, and sponsors. The following outlines the value of the Foundation to these groups:
Patients are the biggest beneficiaries of the Foundation. Research on healing environments suggests that healing art:
Has the power to help the patient transcend his immediate condition and surroundings.
Helps keep the patient in a place of hope and security.
Is reassuring, grounding, and soothing.
Decreases the hospital stay of patients and lowers rehospitalization rates.
Reduces stress and speeds healing.
Reduces need for pain medication.
Lowers blood pressure.
Along with patients, their family and friends can pass the time spent visiting their loved one by dreaming about the image, where it is, how it would be to be in that place, etc.
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The Foundation For Photo/art In Hospitals, Inc. Donation Information
The Foundation for Photo/Art in Hospitals, INC. is recognized by the US Internal Revenue Service as a charitable not-for-profit organization under section 501 (c) 3 of the US tax code. It is supported by grants and contributions from foundations, corporations, civic groups, and individuals. All donations are fully tax-deductible as allowed by law. Our Tax ID number is 76-0720368.
All photos are donated to the Foundation. Your contributions help to pay for the expenses of developing, laminating, framing, and shipping the photos to hospitals around the world.
Photos may be given "in honor of" or "in memory of" a friend or loved one and can be recognized with a plaque.
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The Foundation For Photo/art In Hospitals, Inc.
