Healing Environment

Research shows that music, humor, art and relaxation techniques promote health and well being. The Healing Environment program complements medical treatment by alleviating symptoms through entertainment, music, massage and aesthetically pleasing sights and sounds. The program offers video and audiotapes, clowns, music performances, stress reduction therapy, a 24-hour relaxation TV channel, patient education brochures, art cart, aromatherapy, aquariums and murals to more than 3,200 patients each month. Your gift will help expand the program throughout the medical center.

For more information, call (214) 820-2608.

Currently, the Healing Environment program is focusing on one major project:

Interfaith Garden of Prayer

At the heart of Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas, a facility practicing innovative medicine with advanced technology backed by groundbreaking research, is a place of beauty, peace, and simplicity. Opened in 2003, the Interfaith Garden of Prayer, in memory of Bradley Wayne, provides patients, families, visitors and employees a tranquil place for meditation and prayer.

Surrounded by trees, two waterfalls, beds of seasonal color, and greenery, the garden is located in the courtyard between Roberts Hospital and the Baylor Charles A. Sammons Cancer Center. Parking is available in nearby garages and on surface lots.

Featuring a series of circular prayer paths leading to a central prayer area, the garden provides a sacred place appropriate to the many diverse cultures and faiths represented at Baylor and in the community. For suggestions for walking the prayer path, click here.

The Interfaith Garden of Prayer is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Contributions will help maintain the garden for many years to come. Naming opportunities, suitable for honors or memorials, include bricks at $500 and plaques on a donor wall starting at $1,000.

For more information, call (214) 820-3l36.