by Saundra Shanti | Jun 5, 2020 | Member News, NOAH Blog
Submitted by Saundra Shanti First everyone started donning masks. Next came colorful headbands with funky buttons sewn on to hold the loops of the masks off of the ears. Then floral surgical caps appeared on the heads of nurses in the Medical ICU. Finally there was...
by Saundra Shanti | May 26, 2020 | Member News, NOAH Blog
Submitted by Saundra Shanti For weeks I had walked past a physician’s clinical drawing of a heart on the white board in the Emergency Department. Whatever teachable moment had taken place, it was long over. With permission from the director, I snagged an Expo dry...
by Saundra Shanti | Jan 30, 2020 | Arts in Health in the News, NOAH Blog
“Let Me Breathe” is an art-making process offered to patients who are living with Cystic Fibrosis. Every person has a different relationship to CF. For some, it is embraced as part of their identity. Others choose to give it minimal attention while going about daily...
by Saundra Shanti | Nov 29, 2019 | Arts in Health Month Stories, Member News, NOAH Blog
Grief on the Labor & Delivery floor of a hospital has an especially difficult texture. Sometimes patients and families know that their unborn child will not take a breath at the time of delivery. Still, they have to endure the many hours of waiting for that moment...
by Saundra Shanti | Nov 25, 2019 | Arts in Health Month Stories, Member News, NOAH Blog
Forty-nine staff members at our hospital attended an arts workshop to create a “Traveling Postcard.” These small works of original art with a written message of love and support are placed inside uniquely-designed bags and given to patients in the...
