speaker gesundheit hospital project ideas sister organizations on the land travel volunteer timeline gift shop photo galleries gesundheit library global outreach upcoming clown missions russia mexico ecuador faqs clown town healing fest go clowns and you education upcoming courses about history opportunities contact announcing clowning & caring in ecuador with patch adams come clowning designing loving laughing at the equator line where the hemispheres of care and activism join together to re design our caring characters and a new desirable society read more clowning & caring in mexico be part of this group of international clowns that together will explore performance and clowning as a strategy for caring with daily visits to hospitals shelters mental health institutions streets and for the first time also a university campus read more teaching center under construction after a soggy flooding rainy wet summer we are finally setting a solid pace with the construction of the teaching center on the land in west virginia . read more gesundheit ideas join patch and gesundheit doctors in designing the world s first curriculum for loving kindness and compassion in health care . click below to read more read more opportunities yippee check out some ways for you to get involved at gesundheit . have fun read more about patch adams patch adams is best known for his work as a medical doctor and a clown but he is also a social activist who has devoted over 40 years of his life to changing america s healthcare system . he believes that laughter joy and creativity are an integral part of the healing process and with the help of friends he founded the gesundheit institute in 1971 in order to address all the problems of health care in one model . learn more gesundheit institute the gesundheit institute a non profit healthcare organization is a project in holistic medical care based on the belief that one can not separate the health of the individual from the health of the family the community the society and the world . our mission is to reframe and reclaim the concept of hospital . learn more global outreach formed in 2006 gesundheit global outreach ggo encompasses humanitarian clowning missions and aid educational programs building projects and community development around the world . the goal of this work is the improvement of the health of individuals and communities in crisis from sickness war poverty and injustice . learn more education gesundheit is a model designed to influence discussions of health care delivery systems around the world . as such our mission is primarily educational and inspirational . our hospital project delivers care in a context that models our ideal design while our teaching center educates health care practitioners to create their ideal design . through a variety of educational programming our aim is to seed design a variety of projects that move the healthcare delivery system away from the corporate business context into models of compassion and service . learn more we love our patients and our patients love us . you don t sue someone you love . patchadams healthcare teaching center construction update from west virginia posted on august 11th 2016 the gesundheit institute and the clowns performers composers of the school for designing a society invite you to join them in the ... 2016 festival de belen report posted on october 7th 2016 interview with maria eliseeva by justin lifflander posted on october 3rd 2016 volunteers from around the world join doctor patch adams in russia . together we visit orphanages and hospitals homeless shelters and ... how can we build a politics of care patchadams search site home blog patch adams gesundheit contact donate patch adams md & gesundheit institute p.o. box 307 urbana il 61803 copyright 2016 gesundheit institute non profit web design by idea