UAMS Auxiliary Invites Public to June 13 Event to Fund Healing Art for Patients
| LITTLE ROCK — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Medical Center Auxiliary invites the public to a June 13 fundraiser to support the installation of healing art throughout the hospital’s patient areas.
The event will be held from 7 – 9:30 p.m. on the 12th floor of the UAMS Jackson T. Stephens Spine & Neurosciences Institute and will include a live and silent auction, food, beer, wine and champagne. To purchase tickets contact Erin Gray, director of the UAMS Medical Center Volunteer Services and Auxiliary, at legray@uams.edu or (501) 686-5656.
Three live auction items will include artwork that will be completed at the event by local artists including Pat Matthews, Jane F. Hankins and Tracee Gentry-Matthews. A UAMS patient also will speak about the importance of being in a healing environment.
“There has been a lot of research demonstrating how art contributes to healing in health care facilities,” said Roxane Townsend, M.D., CEO of the UAMS Medical Center. “It contributes to shorter, more restful hospital stays and better outcomes.”
An ongoing project to place healing art throughout patient areas in the UAMS Medical Center is nearly half complete, and funds collected through from this event will be matched by an anonymous foundation for the UAMS Arts Acquisition Fund to complete the effort.
UAMS is the state’s only health sciences university, with colleges of Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Health Professions and Public Health; a graduate school; a hospital; a main campus in Little Rock; a Northwest Arkansas regional campus in Fayetteville; a statewide network of regional campuses; and eight institutes: the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute, Jackson T. Stephens Spine & Neurosciences Institute, Harvey & Bernice Jones Eye Institute, Psychiatric Research Institute, Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging, Translational Research Institute, Institute for Digital Health & Innovation and the Institute for Community Health Innovation. UAMS includes UAMS Health, a statewide health system that encompasses all of UAMS’ clinical enterprise. UAMS is the only adult Level 1 trauma center in the state. UAMS has 3,275 students, 890 medical residents and fellows, and five dental residents. It is the state’s largest public employer with more than 12,000 employees, including 1,200 physicians who provide care to patients at UAMS, its regional campuses, Arkansas Children’s, the VA Medical Center and Baptist Health. Visit www.uams.edu or uamshealth.com. Find us on Facebook, X (formerly Twitter), YouTube or Instagram.###