Oregon Hospital Spends $1.5 Million on Art

Sacred Heart Medical Center at RiverBend in Oregon

American Art Resources helped with the art selection for a new 1.2 million-square-foot, eight-story medical center in Oregon. The hospital, which is a Pebble Project, was designed by Anshen + Allen. It just opened to the public this week.

The July 17th issue of The Register-Guard covered the story:

The art at RiverBend, on the other hand, is chosen for its therapeutic value under a relatively new philosophy called “evidence-based art.” That means art that has been shown through research (though the amount of actual research done so far is slight) to help, or at least not hinder, the healing process.

The hospital has been guided in its selection of more than 400 original pieces of art — including five big “signature pieces” — by American Art Resources, a Houston consulting firm that specializes in evidence-based art.

The selection process results in realistic, easy to comprehend art — no abstracts, nothing difficult for a confused patient to grasp. That doesn’t make it low in quality, though, as a tour through the new building quickly shows.

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