Photography Beneficial in the Healing Process

By contributing to the transformation of high-stress health care environments into more relaxing spaces, Monte Nagler's ceiling images give health care providers an affordable way to create environments that support the total patient. The images present a focal point and invite viewers to tap into their own internal resources. By stimulating active imagination and engaging the body's relaxation response, patients can alter their emotional state and potentially shift their perception of pain.

The ceiling images, which are made of high-quality warranted graphics materials, are created from Monte's original art. They come ready for installation in existing fluorescent lighting fixtures or can be placed in backlit applications for new construction and architectural design.

As healthcare evolves into the blending of the very high-tech with the very high-touch, the images have the potential to serve one of the immediate needs of healthcare providers by offering a concrete and affordable way for organizations to fulfill their healing mission of creating environments that support the total patient. At the same time, the creation of comfortable healing environments contributes to increased levels of patient/client satisfaction, and thus adds to the edge that each organization seeks in driving market share in today's highly competitive environment. When used as replacement panels in existing light fixtures or in new construction and design, these backlit panels change the energy of spaces by altering the intensity of light and interjecting color therapy in the form of easy-to-look-at, multi-layered images. They provide healthcare practitioners, designers, architects and facility planners with a new way of contributing to the transformation of high-stress healthcare environments into more relaxing spaces.

The replicated images are currently used primarily as backlit ceiling panels and also as wall art in the following health care environments: