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Heather on Earth Music Foundation Supports Music Therapist at Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital
On Monday, November 23, the Child Life program of Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital will officially launch the Heather on Earth Music Therapist program, made possible by the Heather on Earth Music Foundation. The program will enable patients and families to benefit from therapeutic music sessions, which can help make the hospital environment more manageable.

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Heather On Earth Music Foundation Grants $34,000 To Winthrop-University Hospital

Mineola, NY – The Heather on Earth Music Foundation, founded by Geri Fessler to honor the memory of her daughter Heather, who passed away in 1985, has made a grant of $34,000 to Winthrop-University Hospital to fund the creation of a Music Therapy Program for pediatric patients.

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Introduction to Music Therapy in the NICU at Beth Israel Medical Center
The fetus is part of a system, dependant upon the physiological condition and emotional states of another human being. From both medical and music therapy perspectives, working within the meter of respiratory and cardiac rates of both mother and fetus within the context of entrainment may have important synchronous medical implications.

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