Art heals, but it isn’t medicine. It can’t be prescribed by a doctor or bottled up over the counter. Art can’t cure a diagnosis or erase grief. It does, however, offer something just as vital — connection, comfort and a way through.

When patients, families and loved ones pass through University Hospitals and Cleveland Clinic facilities across Northeast Ohio, many stop to take in the art for a moment of calm and respite.

What they may not realize, though, is that the art they’re looking at has been carefully combed over, hand-picked and selected for that space by a team of curators who aim to turn the cold, sterile halls into a place of warmth and comfort for those who walk through them.

In 2024, Cleveland Clinic polled more than 1,000 patients and caregivers for the How Art Heals survey

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