'It seems like something that should be everywhere and could definitely be everywhere,' says Julia Henderson, a 32-year-old writer and development coordinator at a San Francisco theater who hopes to bring O+ to Berkeley. Artists, musicians, and physicians from Philadelphia, Minneapolis, Nashville, Berkeley, and Lowell, Massachusetts, have contacted O+ looking to replicate the model. O+ is working toward national expansion with a Bay Area festival, the first of which took place in the Mission District, San Francisco in November 2013, and will move to Petaluma, California in November 2014.

One opinion among expressed by a clinic volunteer is that artists 'contribute so much to what makes a community worth living in.' Some health care providers who volunteer their time at the clinic have said they participate because they recognize the value of art as equivalent in a community to the services they provide.

Participating artists and musicians submit intake forms along with their stage plots, and are paid for their performances and artworks in health services: dental work, addiction counseling, cancer screenings, physical therapy and more, during a weekend triage clinic staffed by doctors who opt to treat artists outside the system, with case-by-case opportunities for follow-up care. The O+ mission states that its aim is to foster 'complete physical, mental, and social well-being by connecting artists directly with a coalition of health care providers and health resources, in a shared vision to nurture the individual and the community,'.

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