Music in Healthcare - A Stop in Aurora — and a Question Worth Sitting With
- acoustichealingmus
- Apr 22
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April 22, 2026
Last weekend I flew into Denver for a family visit to Fort Collins. But I had something else planned for the first two hours: a quick Acoustic Healing outreach stop in Aurora before making the drive north.
I'd looked up the hospitals in the area ahead of time. What I found was striking: just one concentrated cluster of hospital and healthcare campuses in Aurora takes up 0.9 square miles — and that's only one part of a much larger healthcare footprint spread throughout the greater Denver area.
Standing in the middle of it as a small-town Carmel Valley pharmacist and guitarist, I felt like a genuine country bumpkin. It was a lot.
I visited one hospital in person and couldn't get any traction. I called five hospitals and left a message at each one. That was last Friday. Still waiting.
But on my flight home, I watched The Choral — and one line from the film stopped me completely:
"Aren't we a culture of civilized people where they put music, beauty, and art in the center of everything they do? I think it is important."
I let that settle for the rest of the flight.
It reminded me why Acoustic Healing exists. Not just as a business, but as a belief — that music belongs in healing spaces. That patients, families, and caregivers deserve something that speaks to the part of us no medication can reach.
If you're a healthcare administrator who has ever paused to wonder what that might look like in your facility, I'd love to connect.
💜 David E Villareal, RPh, CCM
🎸 www.acoustichealing.music
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