JoyRx Music Healthcare Partnerships

We want to bring JoyRx Music to your healthcare site or clinic.

JoyRx Music is available nationally to pediatric healthcare sites virtually and in-person, depending on existing technology, location, capacity, and resources.

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Three healthcare workers, two women and a man, are smiling and playing small guitars in a hospital kitchen area. The man is in navy scrubs, wearing a patterned cap, with a stethoscope around his neck. One woman is in purple scrubs, and the other woman, wearing a mask and gray hoodie, is holding a small guitar. Behind them is a pink and purple JoyRx music box promoting healing power through music, featuring a sign that welcomes Christy, a music performer.
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JoyRx Music Healthcare Partner

“Both patients and caregivers always enjoy JoyRx Music. It changes the energy in the room, which opens the door for so many other positive hospital experiences and creates a healing environment.”

JoyRx Music Healthcare Partner

“JoyRx Music provides wonderful talent each month, offers a varied song list, and is always supportive with any requests… We are thrilled to work with them!”

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What JoyRx Music Provides  

Our programming is designed within an Arts in Health scope of practice, employs highly trained staff musicians, and aims to:

Normalize the medical environment | Alleviate stress and anxiety | Combat isolation and loneliness | Increase patient wellbeing during hospitalization, treatment, and care.

We currently offer three forms of delivery with JoyRx Music:  

  • Currently only offered in Portland, Austin, and New York City.

    Providing in-room engagements or supporting environmental music in a location within the facility, we deliver music that best suits a child’s emotional place, desired mood, and engagement level.  

    • Highly trained JoyRx Music Specialists travel within the healthcare facility to provide patients with personalized, curated music experiences  

    • Provides variety to children whether they request a song, sing with the musicians, participate in music lessons, or borrow an instrument to play along 

    • JoyRx Music Specialists are staff members who have undergone background checks, auditions, interviews, and training with JoyRx 

  • With a moment of connection across the digital divide, we partner with healthcare staff to integrate live music programming into existing entertainment systems or JoyRx-provided technology, whether that be…

    • Take a JoyRx Music Digital Live Specialist to patients' bedside using a tablet for individualized, kid-directed music sessions. Request a favorite song, sing along, dance, have a jam session, learn an instrument, or just sit back and relax.

    • Broadcast exclusive livestream concerts to your facility via CCTV or other methods. Music Specialists engage patients in interactive musical games such as song requests, SINGO (musical BINGO), musical mad libs, and more

    • JoyRx Music Digital Live Specialists are staff members who have undergone background checks, auditions, interviews, and training with JoyRx located in a variety of time zones

  • JoyRx meets kids wherever they are by partnering with healthcare staff to integrate music into their existing entertainment systems, broadcasting on-demand offerings for children to access.  

    • JoyRx creates original, prerecorded musical content available to healthcare facilities for broadcast via CCTV or other patient platforms. 

    • Curated, child-friendly music performances by JoyRx Music Specialists, popular artists, at music festivals, and more

    • Preview On-Demand content on our YouTube channels. JoyRx Kids, for under age 13, is on YouTube and YouTube Kids. JoyRx Music, for age 13+, is on YouTube.

JoyRx Programs are a customized,
no-cost experience, tailored to fit the healthcare facility’s patient population, staffing, operations, technology, and support needs. Additionally, programming is evaluated for its positive impact and quality to ensure patient safety.  

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Contact Children’s Cancer Associaton

If you are interested in learning more about bringing JoyRx Music to your pediatric healthcare facility, please fill out the form below.

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Success stories

Featured
Songs Across the Screen: A Day in the Life of a JoyRx Music Digital Live Specialist 
Songs Across the Screen: A Day in the Life of a JoyRx Music Digital Live Specialist 

When Children's Cancer Association was founded in 1995, its flagship program — JoyRx Music — was built on a simple, powerful idea: bring live music directly to children in the hospital. For decades, trained JoyRx Music Specialists visited kids bedside at local Portland hospitals, creating personalized musical moments tailored to each child's mood, energy, and interests. 

Music, Joy & a Big Announcement: Live from the Heart Austin, 2026
Music, Joy & a Big Announcement: Live from the Heart Austin, 2026

A night of joy, music, and community support was celebrated at the 2026 Live From the Heart Austin gala, featuring Charley Crockett. With the generosity of our incredible donors, we set a new record for fundraising for JoyRx programs in Austin, Texas.

Joy Is Health: What the Science Says and What We’re Seeing 
Joy Is Health: What the Science Says and What We’re Seeing 

World Health Day, observed every April 7th, is a global reminder that health is a fundamental human right — and that health means far more than the absence of disease. It encompasses emotional well-being, dignity, connection, and the ability to thrive, even in the most difficult circumstances.