WELCOME TO MUSIC IN MEDICINE
Our Goal: Therapeutic Music becomes a regular part of health and memory care.
Music in Medicine provides live music to patients promoting health and well being. Music in Medicine trains musicians to provide therapeutic musical services. It engages healthcare providers to build understanding of music’s benefits and uses. Located in Citrus County, Florida, Music in Medicine serves in many healthcare settings.
For Musicians
Become a Certified Clinical Musician! This training broadens a musician’s appreciation of the physical, emotional, and spiritual impact of music. Training explains the physiological reasons why music works to help calm and stabilize patients. Musicians learn to modify the music rhythm, tempo, or genre to suit patients’ emotional and physical situations. Therapeutic musicians report feeling rewarded and satisfied from the patient’s response. Learn more.
For Families and Caregivers
Families and caregivers know how well music works to help their loved ones. Music helps them cope with the health issues they face. Families see the calming effects of the therapeutic music, and feel the effects themselves. As patients calm, the stress caregivers feel subsides. Therapeutic music offers relief and a focus away from healthcare issues.
For Administators
Therapeutic music benefits hospitals and other care facilities. It improves patient and family satisfaction, and surgical results. It provides comfort, and shortens recovery times. Nurses report patients are more relaxed and easier to handle. This makes the nurses’ jobs easier and reduces staff turnover. Nurses report receiving the benefits of the relaxing music, and experience reduced stress.
For Healthcare Professionals
Therapeutic music helps control patients’ anxiety and depression, stabilizes heart and respiratory rates, reduces blood pressure, alleviates pain and fosters a sense of well being. Therapeutic music makes life easier for busy health care professionals. Because music helps control or eliminate a wide variety of health problems, patients become more calm and less stressed. Healthcare practitioners also benefit from music’s calming effects.
Acclaimed By Manager of Volunteer Services, Citrus Memorial Hospital
“It is amazing to watch the transformation. When a therapeutic musician goes to a patient's room, the Emergency Room, or our Surgery Recovery Area, and plays her instrument, a positive attitude change happens. The peace and tranquility of her music calms many fears and apprehensions. Patients and their families at CMH benefit. Music enhances the healing process. It is an added benefit to health care professionals who don’t always take a needed break. A couple of minutes of her music refreshes the soul, helping them to continue loving their patients.”
Penny Zaphel, Manager Volunteer Services
