Oct15
Spouse and partner group begins
6:30 PM · Fairmount chapel annex
Week one of eight. Supper at 6:15.

Grief groups
Free eight-week groups for families, led by a chaplain and a licensed counselor. You can come to one meeting and see.
Groups this autumn
Starts October 15 at the Fairmount chapel annex. Twelve people at most, with a light supper.
Get connectedFor any age of child, from infancy to adulthood. Led by Chaplain Sun-Hee Park, who spent eight years as a children's hospital chaplain.
Get connectedA monthly morning group. Partners welcome. Childcare for older siblings.
Get connectedFor families who lost someone after weeks in intensive care, and for those who are still carrying what they saw.
Get connected

Remembrance service
On the third Sunday of November we hold a short service in the Fairmount chapel for families of everyone who died in our six hospitals during the year. A candle is lit for each name.
You don't need to have met us during the illness. If someone you love died in one of our hospitals, you are welcome.
Coming up
Oct15
6:30 PM · Fairmount chapel annex
Week one of eight. Supper at 6:15.
Oct20
7:00 PM · Erie Shore, conference room 2
Ongoing group. New members welcome any week.
Nov7
10:00 AM · Euclid Heights, family room
Coffee, a short reading and time to talk.
Nov15
3:00 PM · Fairmount chapel
Every name from the past year, read aloud.
Dec10
7:00 PM · Fairmount chapel
A quiet evening service for anyone dreading the holidays.
Nothing in that category this month.
Join a group
A chaplain will phone within two business days to talk about which group fits, or whether one-on-one support would be better for now.
A real person will reply within a day.
Design notes
Bedside Chaplains sends trained chaplains to patients, families and staff in six Cleveland hospitals, day and night. The site is built for someone standing in a corridor with a phone, and it lets them ask for a chaplain before they read anything else.
Petrona sets the headlines in a soft medium weight with a light italic for second lines; it has the warmth of a handwritten note without pretending to be one. The body is Atkinson Hyperlegible, designed by the Braille Institute, at 18px. Its letters are deliberately distinct (no confusing l, I and 1), which matters when the reader is exhausted or medicated.
The palette comes from the room at three in the morning: the pale green-gray of hospital linen, the deep teal of the privacy curtain and the amber of the one reading lamp left on. We avoided clinical white and alarm red entirely. The dark theme is a night shift rather than an inversion, with the teal lifted and the lamp-amber warmed so both stay clear against the dark.
A classic top bar, because nobody in a hospital should have to learn a navigation pattern. Six plainly named pages, a single action on the right and a phone number one tap away. The request form has its own anchor so nurses can text a family the link straight to it.
The home page opens with the request form itself. Most visitors arrive because someone is ill right now, so the form asks for five things and nothing more, while the reassurance beside it answers the questions people are too tired to ask: how long, how much, and will you try to convert my mother.
"Ask for a chaplain" is the main action because it is a request, not a booking. Every other action names exactly what happens: call the on-call chaplain, ask for a bedside vigil, join a grief group, start volunteer training. The giving action is "Fund a night shift", since nights are what donations actually pay for.
Only real bedside moments: hands held, a visitor in a chair, a lamp and candles. We left out stock photos of smiling clinicians and anything that looks like a hospital advertisement. Nobody in a photo is identifiable as a specific patient, and there are no photos of people at their most frail.
Large, high-contrast type, form fields with visible labels, and a phone number written out in full wherever a form appears, for people who would rather talk. Crisis numbers are in plain text, not hidden behind links. Both color themes keep body text above 7:1.
Every text pairing is checked against WCAG 2.2 in both themes.
| Pairing | Sample | Ratio | WCAG |
|---|---|---|---|
| Body text on page | Aa | 13.41:1 | AAA |
| Body text on cards | Aa | 14.97:1 | AAA |
| Secondary text | Aa | 5.64:1 | AA |
| Links | Aa | 6.75:1 | AA |
| Button text | Aa | 7.54:1 | AAA |
| Accent label text | Aa | 4.8:1 | AA |
| Text on dark bands | Aa | 13.41:1 | AAA |
| Muted text on dark bands | Aa | 7.29:1 | AAA |
| Text on brand bands | Aa | 7.54:1 | AAA |
| Muted text on brand bands | Aa | 5.07:1 | AA |
| Pairing | Sample | Ratio | WCAG |
|---|---|---|---|
| Body text on page | Aa | 15.01:1 | AAA |
| Body text on cards | Aa | 13.31:1 | AAA |
| Secondary text | Aa | 6.72:1 | AA |
| Links | Aa | 9.07:1 | AAA |
| Button text | Aa | 9.44:1 | AAA |
| Accent label text | Aa | 8.79:1 | AAA |
| Text on dark bands | Aa | 16.06:1 | AAA |
| Muted text on dark bands | Aa | 8.12:1 | AAA |
| Text on brand bands | Aa | 9.44:1 | AAA |
| Muted text on brand bands | Aa | 5.66:1 | AA |
Designed by Greater Purpose Web. Names, people and events are sample content.