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raising funds to Comfort patients And Support clinical staff
Currently, hundreds of Certified Music Practitioners across the nation are available to work, but are unable to secure the funding they need to provide Live Therapeutic Music (LTM) to patients in their areas, since LTM is currently not a reimbursable expense covered by Medicare or private insurance.
Strings of Mercy helps raise money through individual and corporate donors, grants and foundations to pay Music Practitioners who bring LTM to patients in need.
We are working toward the day that every nurse and physician working in healthcare is aware of the benefits of Live Therapeutic Music and refers LTM to their patients who would benefit from this non-pharmacologic, complementary intervention.
Chuck Beckman, Executive Director
Music for Healing and Transition Program (MHTP)
Northeast Georgia Medical Center - Gainesville, GA
Northeast Georgia Medical Center - Gainesville, GA
MHTP trains and certifies Music Practitioners all across the U.S. with more than 1,000 Certified Music Practitioners providing LTM to patients in hospitals, skilled nursing, memory care, assisted living, personal care and hospice facilities. Recognized by the National Standards Board for Therapeutic Musicians (NSBTM), MHTP is the largest accredited certification program for musicians desiring to work as clinically trained therapeutic musicians. Visit www.mhtp.org for more info.
Northeast Georgia Medical Center - Gainesville, GA
Northeast Georgia Medical Center - Gainesville, GA
Northeast Georgia Medical Center - Gainesville, GA
In June 2019, Northeast Georgia Medical Center hired Chuck Beckman, CMP, as the hospital’s Therapeutic Music Program Coordinator. Chuck is developing a therapeutic music program where he and several other certified therapeutic musicians will provide up to 8 hours of LTM services daily, Monday through Friday. The program, funded by the Northeast Georgia Health Systems Foundation W.A.T.C.H. Committee donors, will provide Live Therapeutic Music as a clinical intervention for the hospital’s ICU patients. The Therapeutic Music Program at NGMC will be one of the largest and most comprehensive LTM programs in the country.
Northside Hospital Gwinnett
Northeast Georgia Medical Center - Gainesville, GA
Capstone Hospice - Atlanta, GA
Northside Hospital Gwinnett and Duluth (formerly Gwinnett Medical Center at Lawrenceville and Duluth) provide complementary LTM services for their patients through the Spiritual Care Department. Funded in part by the Gwinnett Medical Center Foundation, Strings of Mercy helped develop the hospitals' Therapeutic Music Programs and before COVID, had three part-time CMPs working at these two Atlanta area hospitals in Gwinnett County.
Currently, we have one CMP providing Live TherapeuticMusic for the staff at workstations throughout the Gwinnett location.
Capstone Hospice - Atlanta, GA
St. Mary's Hospital - Athens, GA
Capstone Hospice - Atlanta, GA
Strings of Mercy helped develop a therapeutic music program at Capstone Hospice, where a staff chaplain, who is also a Certified Music Practitioner, provides live therapeutic music (LTM) interventions for patients. Capstone case managers depend on LTM to help improve patient’s quality of life and help manage a heartbreaking condition known as Terminal Agitation, which often afflicts patients during their final days of life.
St. Mary's Hospital - Athens, GA
St. Mary's Hospital - Athens, GA
St. Mary's Hospital - Athens, GA
In 2017, St. Mary’s Health Care System and Strings of Mercy partnered to co-fund a Therapeutic Music Program that provides LTM services for 4 hours per day, one day per week at St. Mary’s Hospital in Athens, GA. St. Mary’s expects to fully fund the part-time Therapeutic Music Program through the hospital's Auxiliary and Foundation.
The Vine Community Church
St. Mary's Hospital - Athens, GA
St. Mary's Hospital - Athens, GA
The Vine Community Church has supported Strings of Mercy from our inception. Their generous support and encouragement have enabled us to continue fulfilling our mission throughout the state of Georgia.
Maple Street Guitars
Maple Street Guitars
Maple Street Guitars
When you’re in the market for a quality acoustic guitar, musicians throughout the south will tell you that Maple Street Guitars is one of the best shops for new acoustic guitars, amps, accessories and service.
Since 1981, George, Claire (and later, son Lindsay) Petsch have helped thousands of guitarists of all levels find the perfect instrument for their individual styles of music.
Whether your budget is $500 or more than $10,000, Maple Street Guitars is Atlanta’s best option to find the right guitar for you.
To review their incredible inventory of guitars, visit www.maplestreetguitars.com.
Mercy Music
Maple Street Guitars
Maple Street Guitars
Everything Strings of Mercy ever accomplished actually began taking root when Chuck Beckman emailed Denver-based Mercy Music in 2012. By 2013, Chuck and Mercy Music Executive Director Brad Richardson began a partnership that continues to thrive to this day. For two years, Chuck worked in Atlanta as a ‘Musicianary’ under Brad’s supervision. But it soon became apparent that God was calling Chuck to launch Strings of Mercy with a local board who shared Chuck’s vision of ‘Changing the Way We Care for the Suffering through Live Therapeutic Music.'
Mercy Music is a ministry that is dedicated to develop Musicianaries who are called to play Music for Healing, Music for Worship and Music for the Next Generation.
To learn more about Mercy Music, go to www.mercymusic.org.
Baruke Guitars
Maple Street Guitars
Baruke Guitars
Baruke Guitars owner / founder Allen Williams hand-builds fine acoustic guitars in his shop nestled in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains near Gainesville, GA. Allen’s 35+ years experience as a luthier, his use of rare and premium woods, a meticulous eye for detail and his pursuit of perfection for every guitar he builds makes Allen’s guitars easy to listen to and play.
Allen considers the playing style and technique of each guitarist before selecting the wood for any guitar. He carefully taps, then ‘listens’ to dozens of pieces in selecting the right combination of woods with matching color, timbre and resonance. This painstaking process is essential to building a high quality, harmonically balanced instrument and Allen performs this ritual for every guitar he builds.
Every Baruke guitar is a unique and one of a kind investment. Ironically, the prices for Baruke guitars are similar to more famous, high-end, mass-produced guitars. What would you rather own? A mass-produced guitar or a one-of-a-kind masterpiece?
Go to www.barukeguitars.com to learn how Allen can build a handcrafted guitar for you!