Hunter “Patch” Adams ... Williams wore in his title role in the movie “Patch Adams” to try to cheer up patients. Adams, 57, has run the Gesundheit! Institute since 1970 with the goal ...

Noted physician, Dr. Doherty Hunter "Patch" Adams, whose life story ... Adams is known for creating the Gesundheit! Institute which ran a free community hospital, as well as for establishing ...

URBANA — Dr. Hunter “Patch” Adams of Urbana said ... 50th year of his quest to build the hospital, which he thought would take five years. His Gesundheit Institute owns 327 acres in ...

If you weren't a big fan of Patch Adams, director Tom Shadyac's 1998 dramedy starring the late Robin Williams, then welcome the real-life Dr. Hunter ... the Gesundheit! Institute, but that ...

Standing at 6 feet and 2 inches, weighing 200 pounds, Patch Adams, born Hunter Adams ... The movie Patch Adams has the doctor in a mental hospital at the age of 30, but that wasn''t true, said ...

Dressed in a brightly colored clown suit with big, colorful shoes, a chicken hat on his head and a clown nose, Dr. Hunter “Patch” Adams ... care is deteriorating,” Adams said. Adams is founder and ...

The event is a fundraiser that benefits the work of Doctor Hunter ... a 40-bed hospital that will offer free treatment. Adams is the inspiration for the 1998 movie "Patch Adams," starring Robin ...

Dr. Hunter Doherty “Patch” Adams clowned around Columbus Wednesday and made a stop at the Ohio Union. Adams is a physician that dresses as a clown and visits hospitals in hopes of bringing joy ...

ONEONTA — Dr. Hunter “Patch” Adams, a doctor and clown who was the ... That’s why he and colleagues founded the Gesundheit Institute together in 1971 in West Virginia, he said.

is based on a true story about Hunter “Patch” Adams (Robin Williams), who committed himself to a psychiatric hospital only to find out he had a gift for helping people. He then checked out and ...