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• Having relatives peering through windows at their loved ones or unable to enter hospitals altogether exacerbated the lack of human intimacy that is all too common in health care settings.
• Opportunities for creative expression through arts in medicine programs are increasing in U.S. hospitals, and it may be because art-making offers something that medicine can’t.
• Research has also shown that these programs can bring relief from the stresses and burnout that health care workers regularly experience.
• Arts in medicine programs are also correlated with improved blood pressure and less pain and depression for some patients.

Art therapy reduces the sense of isolation

• Ian Cion founded the hospital’s arts in medicine program in 2010.
• Cion’s goal with such collaborative projects was to pull people out of the isolation of illness and into community, and to celebrate and embrace the unknown.

Detachment and routine are rife in hospital settings

• Some were licensed mental health professionals who were professionally prepared for such work, such as art therapists, music therapists and poetry therapists.
• People experiencing hospitalization have shared with me that they often don’t feel seen for who they are when they enter the hospital setting.
• One gentleman stated that he felt literally stripped of his social identity when he was asked to don the anonymous hospital gown.
• But when artists enter the hospital room, they recognize patients as whole people, apart from their diagnosis.

Embracing uncertainty

• But my research shows that art-making also provides an important opportunity to engage with the unknown.
• In medicine, the focus is typically on imaging and other testing to reach a diagnosis and a course of treatment.

Building trust through poetry

• I, like some of Campo’s colleagues, wondered how there was room for poetry in the very short time doctors get to spend with their patients.
• Rather than taking up time, the use of poetry builds trust so that patients share their deepest worries more quickly, he noted, giving him more time to meaningfully address them.

The need for a new language around loss and death

• Nearly everyone will face a point in their lives where medicine cannot provide a solution or sustain life.
• Our cultural and medical narratives of illness often do not have adequate language for these moments.
• She told me about a mother who created collages of her very worst fears as well as what brought her hope and strength.

• The Port Commission of the Port of Houston Authority met on Monday, March 20.
• Chairman Ric Campo opened the meeting regarding the continued progress of the Houston Ship Channel expansion and deepening program, Project 11.
• Guenther and the leadership team also shared Port Houston is looking forward to continuing cooperative engagement with EDF.
• Jenkins will lead the development and maintenance of the Houston Ship Channel and oversee the development and implementation of the Port Houston Strategic Asset Management Program.

• The Port Commission of the Port of Houston Authority met for its first regular meeting of the year on Thursday, January 26.
• Port Chairman Ric Campo opened the meeting by praising employees, partners, and stakeholders for achieving the highest general cargo volume in the history of Port Houston – 55 million tons in 2022 – marking tremendous growth for the eight public terminals serving the region.
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  Sunrise over Port Houston's Bayport Container Terminal.
• For example, Port Houston was awarded four Seaport and Rail Yard (SPRY) grants totaling $1,983,255 to replace 26-yard tractors and four forklifts with new emission-reducing equipment, and shortly after the commission meeting, Port Houston received confirmation of a fifth TCEQ SPRY grant for $950,443, to repower Rubber Tire Gantry cranes to hybrid.

• Harris County Commissioners Court and the Houston City Council met in a joint session Monday and unanimously reappointed Houston businessman Ric Campo to serve as Chairman of the Port Commission of the Port of Houston Authority of Harris County, Texas.
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  Port Houston Chairman Ric Campo addressing the joint session of the Harris County Commissioners Court and the Houston City Council following his unanimous reappointment to serve as Chairman of the Port Commission of the Port of Houston Authority.
• Ric Campo has been an outstanding Port Houston Chairman for the past several years.
• The joint meeting of the two governing bodies to appoint the chairs of the Port Commission and the Pilot Board is their only regular occurrence together.