Music therapy helps Banner Children’s NICU patients

Sarra Erb has a job many people can only dream about: she gets paid to sing to babies in the hospital.

Part of her role as a music therapist at Banner Children’s at Desert involves singing to sick and premature infants in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. Erb is specially trained to use her melodic voice to soothe them, along with a calming touch to counterbalance the occasional poking and prodding necessary for life-saving or life-sustaining treatment.