Beaufort Memorial Hospital | Affiliated with Duke University Health System in heart and cancer

Keyserling Cancer Center

Healing Arts Program

BMH worked with consultants who staff the Healing Arts Network at Duke (HAND) to develop its own healing arts program that will extend throughout all of its facilities over time. The program is called Partners in the Arts Toward Healing (PATH); it is coordinated by occupational therapist Chris Nietert. The goal of the program is to integrate the arts and humanities into the patient care setting to foster healing and provide a more compassionate and nurturing environment for patients, visitors and staff.

As BMH was beginning this process, an interior designer especially trained in the healing arts and evidence-based design was called in to assist with the design of the Keyserling Cancer Center. Her name is Debra Dailey of Dailey & Associates from Greenville. While planning for the Cancer Center, she was interviewed by the Beaufort Gazette. Click here to read the article, which ran Monday, Oct. 17, 2005.


A new waterwall is installed in the Cancer Center lobby.

The healing arts expand at the Keyserling Cancer Center
Every aspect of the Keyserling Cancer Center was considered with the patient as a whole person. This involves catering to their physical, emotional and spiritual needs. For this reason, the Healing Arts Program was started at Beaufort Memorial. In early January, a beautiful waterwall was installed at the Cancer Center. The Waterwall commission was made possible through donations to the Beaufort Memorial Hospital Foundation from Jiten and Smita Desai and the family of Dottie Oliver. Go by the Cancer Center and check it out!