The mission of Painted Hospitals

OUR GOAL

PAINT A DREAM AND WARD OFF PATIENTS' FEARS

Painted Hospitals® is not a non-profit organization or foundation, but is an art project available to Associations, non-profit organizations, Foundations, Companies or individuals who want to Donate themed painted wards to hospital facilities.

It all starts with a request from Policlinico Gemelli in Rome in 2012 to decorate a corridor in the radiation oncology department. The work was immediately successful with patients and a request from other hospitals began.
The artist immediately thinks of creating a dedicated project named Painted Hospitals® with a fundamental concept: to create the works only and exclusively with the contribution of people, sponsors, local companies or in collaboration with non-profit organizations and Foundations.

That is why the most beautiful and most important signature is not that of the artist, but of all those who, by contributing, feel part of a project of welcoming the patient and supporting the doctors by transforming the wards into an all-color dream. There are now 30 Italian hospitals that have joined the project where the artist has transformed one or more rooms into colorful worlds that young patients can interact with.

“Emotional environments,” as the artist himself describes them, “because the patient is above all a person.”

SILVIO IRILLI ospite della Customer Week di Chiesi Group

Villa Adriana

IT'S NOT JUST A DECORATION

Decorating a hospital ward is more than just beautifying a room with pictures.

It means bringing a message of welcome, support to the doctors who have to follow the patient and accompany them for treatment. Above all, it means giving some relief to patients who have to face a journey where courage and dignity are needed. It becomes even more important when the therapy has to be faced by children, who are by necessity in a context that is out of their World. It is important to recreate their World in a hospital ward, allowing them to continue to dream. That’s why every work I create has to interact with children, telling them a story so that their therapy journey becomes a game. For adults, on the other hand, the settings I create are about enhancing the local area, which is so rich in history and can take them into another dimension.

HOW TO JOIN THE PROJECT OF PAINTED HOSPITALS®

To join the Painted Hospitals® project, it is necessary to have a non-profit organization or Foundation, with which the hospital department collaborates, take charge of the initiative because hospitals and Healthcare do not spend a penny. The costs are financed by the non-profit associations, Foundations that collect donations through fundraising campaigns, or companies that sponsor the works.

A TRUST IN COLOR

“When I create a work for a pediatric ward, I think about an important aspect, which is how the doctor can win the child’s trust during treatment and therapy. When this happens, it creates an interaction with the surroundings and the child listens more confidently to the doctor’s directions for treatment, conveying a message of peace of mind for the parents as well. In this image, there is hugging, there are new friends, there is welcoming, helpfulness, but above all, there is a lot of TRUST IN COLORS.”

SILVIO IRILLI ( artist and creator of Painted Hospitals )