Berko Music Therapy is back in Northern Westchester Hospital with a new revamped music therapy program in collaboration with patient advocacy and integrative health departments. Based on the Planet Tree award-winning program we were previously involved with at the same facility, we are providing individual and group music therapy sessions for inpatient psychiatry, adult inpatient rehabilitation, post-surgery and general hospital units.

We are working within the clinical goals of each patient in order to help achieve maximum gains in treatment, accelerate recovery and cope with hospitalization.

Among the supporters of the program are Cathy and Paul Schaffer (David Letterman’s musical director).

The following is an interview published in the Journal News with vice president of patient advocacy and patient centered services Maria Hale, who discusses the impact of the program.

http://www.lohud.com/story/news/2014/06/23/music-therapy-benefits-hospital-patients/11271557/