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Healing starts in the lobby at this hospital, where volunteer musicians play their passion

Nurse Guido Calcagno plays the piano for patients, guests and staff in the lobby at Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital in Barrington on March 21, 2023.

If you happen to walk through the front doors of Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital in Barrington, near Chicago, and think you hear the Windows startup music, or the themes for Universal Studios or Warner Bros. being played on the piano, don’t second guess it. Odds are it is Guido Calcagno, registered nurse, warming up to play melodies for patients, staff and visitors.

Calcagno is one of the volunteer musicians who play live music for visitors in Good Shepherd’s lobby Monday through Saturday.

When volunteer pianist Renee Mullaney is working the 88 keys in the lobby,

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