Art portraying nature offers the following benefits:

Benefits to Patients:
• Stress reduction
• Decreased need for pain medications, including opioids
• Fewer side effects
• Lower blood pressure
• Faster healing and discharging
• Higher patient satisfaction

Benefits to Staff:
• Fewer patients complains
• Stress reduction
• Lower nursing turnover
• Higher job satisfaction

Benefits to Visitors
• Better overall impression of care

⇒ Art is good medicine. It is also good investment. It quickly pays for itself many times over by lowering the tremendously high, and rising, cost associated with longer hospital stay and additional care.

Art is also a great equalizer. It transports well and can enhance patients’ experience and medical outcomes across geographies and social-demographic groups to help restore medical trust and alleviate health disparities.

In out-patient settings and doctors’ offices, nature art was shown to lower anxiety, reduce perceived pain, and shorten perceived wait time.

In nursing homes, art helps improve communication and way-finding.

Of course, art benefits us all!