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Turn your hospital environment into a healing, fundraising, and community asset.

Aesthetics, Inc. helps hospital administrators, COOs, CNOs, facility leaders, and foundations create evidence-based art programs that improve the experience, support staff well-being, engage donors, and reflect the community served.

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a Strategic healthcare asset

Every hospital environment tells a story.

A strategic art program helps make that story one of healing, generosity, staff pride, and community connection. When thoughtfully planned, art can support patient experience, staff renewal, philanthropy, and institutional identity.

Hospital leadership priorities

A healthcare art program can support the outcomes leaders care about most

01

Turn the Environment Into an Asset

Create art programs that support donor engagement, naming opportunities, and long-term philanthropic value.

02

Improve Patient & Family Experience

Use evidence-based art and design strategies to reduce stress and create a more welcoming healthcare environment.

03

Support Staff Well-being

Build restorative spaces that foster pride, belonging, and renewal for healthcare workers, leading to healthy morale and staff retention.

04

Strengthen Community Connection

Reflect local culture, reinforce mission, and create a hospital environment connected to the people it serves.

Our Approach

We make healthcare art programs practical, fundable, and operationally aligned.

Aesthetics helps hospital leaders evaluate opportunities, define scope, engage stakeholders, support fundraising, and implement art programs that serve patients, staff, donors, and the community.

Feasibility study

Evaluate program scope, budget, fundraising potential, community resources, and operational requirements before committing major resources.

Evidence-based strategy

Use healthcare design, neuroarts, and environmental psychology principles to support experience and wellbeing.

Foundation collaboration

Create donor opportunities, storytelling, and philanthropic value in partnership with your foundation team.

Implementation support

Support artist management, budget oversight, project coordination, installation, and long-term program success.

Testimonials

What Healthcare Leaders Say

Aesthetics partners with hospital administrators, facilities teams, clinical leaders, and foundations to create art programs that support healing, staff wellbeing, donor engagement, and community connection. See how our work helps hospitals turn their environments into meaningful assets.

    Ellen Khoudari
    Ellen Khoudari

    Sr. Project Manager, Planning Admin., Design & Construction | UCI Health

    Little did we know when Aesthetics was successful in our bidding process for our 2.5 million square foot expansion, that we would gain the most professional team I’ve ever experienced. The breadth of knowledge and depth of inspiration from this group is unparalleled in the healthcare marketplace.

      Elizabeth Dunlevie
      Elizabeth Dunlevie

      Chair Facilities and Construction Committee | LPCH Stanford

      While Annette is extremely prominent in the world of children’s hospital art installations, we never felt that she was pushing us to her vision or look. She helped us to express our vision. The result is that Packard, like all of her projects, is unique.

      Questions hospital administrators ask about healthcare art programs.

      Clear answers for COOs, CNOs, facilities managers, foundation leaders, and hospital executives evaluating an art program.

      What is evidence-based art in healthcare?

      Evidence-based art in healthcare is the practice of selecting and placing artwork in clinical environments based on research showing measurable benefits, such as reduced patient anxiety, lower perceived pain, and improved staff well-being. Rather than choosing art purely for aesthetics, we use findings from environmental psychology and design research to make intentional decisions that support better outcomes for patients, visitors, and staff.

      What ROI can hospitals expect from an evidence-based art program?

      Hospitals can evaluate ROI through patient experience, staff wellbeing, recruitment and retention, donor engagement, community perception, and institutional identity.

      What makes a healthcare art consultant different from a traditional art consultant?

      Aesthetics approaches healthcare environments strategically, aligning art with best practices and evidence-based research in healing, philanthropy, staff experience, operations, and institutional goals, not decoration alone.

      How does a healthcare art program support hospital fundraising?

      A strategic art program creates donor engagement, naming opportunities, legacy giving, and mission-driven storytelling that can support the work of the hospital foundation.

      How do hospitals start a community-based art program with limited time or budget?

      Aesthetics begins with a feasibility study that evaluates scope, budget, community resources, fundraising potential, operations, and long-term impact before major resources are committed.

      Can Aesthetics work with our internal facilities, design, or art team?

      Yes. Aesthetics supports internal teams by adding specialized healthcare art expertise, artist management, implementation strategy, budget oversight, and project coordination.

      45 Years of Healthcare experience

      More than art selection. A strategic partner
      for healing environments.

      For more than 45 years, Aesthetics has partnered with hospitals to create art programs that elevate experience, support staff, engage donors, and reflect the communities each hospital serves.

      Ready make your hospital environment one of your most meaningful assets? Let’s talk.

      Explore how art can help your hospital create spaces that heal, inspire, engage donors, and strengthen community connection.

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