However, patients or their family can request the service by contacting the creative arts office. Individual sessions take place in a patient s room and can last from 15 minutes to an hour. Music and art therapists have a variety of interventions appropriate for all age groups from newborn babies to teenagers and encourage family members to join in during the session. Certain groups are open only to the patients from a designated floor due to immune control. Group sessions last for an hour and the size can range from two to twenty children and their families.
Some examples are discussion groups, reminiscence, art, music and intergenerational programming.
Volunteers skilled in different creative arts forms take a important role at Hanna House activities department. Periodically artists, chamber musicians, pianists, harpists, accordion players, and singers perform for the residents.