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welcome!
Since 2002 Bedside Harp®, the first ever exclusively hospital-hosted, evidence-based harp therapy training and certification program, has been dedicated to promoting our field by providing service and training programs of excellence, ever raising the bar, setting the highest standards for ourselves, our students and our graduates. Read what our host hospitals say about the difference we make in their facilities and read, too, what the patients say, what visitors say, what staff says, what our students say and what our graduates say about our work, our programs, and their journeys with us.
Our mission is to promote the therapeutic use of the harp in healthcare. Committed to making a difference in that setting, we are proud that, between February 2002 and December 2008, we have:
- Delivered a five-minute or longer harp therapy session to 35,677 patients at the five hospitals that have hosted our programs!
- Played 9,655 documented hours of therapeutic harp in those hospitals!
- Taught 521 people, aged 8 to 80+, who never before played the harp, to play for their own healing and enjoyment!
- Graduated 52 Certified Harp Therapists hailing from all over the United States. Thirty-one, or 60% of them went on to achieve their Mastery levels of certification with us!
- Graduated 6 Certified Instructional Mentors from our newest teacher's certification program!
- Awarded $10,013.12 in instructional and certification scholarships!
- Completed three formal research projects — one of which earned us international acclaim!
- Been recognized and honored by all five of our host hospitals, Bucks County Community College, the Society of the Arts in Healthcare, Johnson & Johnson and healthcare professionals throughout our nation for our comprehensive training, high standards, groundbreaking research, integrity, collaborative spirit and good works!
latest numbers
| -- 2009 -- | May | YTD |
|---|---|---|
| Number of patients in our host hospitals who received live harp therapy sessions lasting 5 or more minutes | 836 | 3,577 |
| Number of hours of live harp therapy delivered to patients, their loved ones, staff and doctors at our host hospitals | 181.5 | 907.5 |
announcements
Our groundbreaking stroke study has been granted final IRB approval! We'll start the clinical portion at Abington Memorial Hospital in late July.
Our dear Jan is back home, and we are so very grateful!!!
It's official — we've moved! We're still in the Neshaminy Medical Professional Center, but now we're in Suites 3-4, giving us more open space for our Library and Resource Center, our offices and now even — a real showroom!!!
We have proposed a brand new study that will ask the question, "Can the intervention of harp therapy in the earliest stages of a stroke reduce the residual effects of that stroke?"
The Blevins' Marie 27 therapy harp, with its unique range of G two below Middle C to E three above Middle C has been born!
We have just published the long-awaited Supplement to Edie Elkan's Everything You Ever Wanted to Know book, the text we use for all of our classes.