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Hairstylist Brings His Talents Bedside To Penn Medicine Patients: "This Is My Passion"
For Richard Cornish, helping someone look their best even when they're not feeling it is a small win in the road to recovery.
September 9, 2025
Richard Cornish is a pro at making people look and feel their best, no matter the obstacles.
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Cornish has been a hairstylist for more than three decades. Since January, he's been operating a mobile bedside salon, Restore Salon Services, out of two black travel bags for patients undergoing long-term treatment and hospital stays at Penn Medicine.
"When you tell a person who is in the hospital that they can actually receive a haircut or a shampoo or a beard trim or something like that, it helps them to kind of change their own perspective on their own situation," Cornish said. "It kind of normalizes their experience in the hospital, it helps them keep their own identities."
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