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Bedside Chaplains
Ask for a chaplainEvery faithWhen time is shortHospitalsGrief groupsVolunteer
Ask for a chaplain
Bedside Chaplains
Ask for a chaplainEvery faithWhen time is shortHospitalsGrief groupsVolunteer

2201 Carnegie Ave, Suite 4, Cleveland, OH 44115

(555) 014-3300

chaplains@example.org

Ask for a chaplain
Support group seated in a circle of chairs in a gym

Grief groups

After the hospital, the long weeks

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

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Loss of a husband, wife or partnerThursdays 6:30 PMAdults, any age

Starts October 15 at the Fairmount chapel annex. Twelve people at most, with a light supper.

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Loss of a childTuesdays 7:00 PMParents and grandparents

For any age of child, from infancy to adulthood. Led by Chaplain Sun-Hee Park, who spent eight years as a children's hospital chaplain.

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Pregnancy and infant lossFirst Saturday, 10 AMMothers, fathers, partners

A monthly morning group. Partners welcome. Childcare for older siblings.

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After a long ICU stayMondays 6:00 PM, onlineFamilies

For families who lost someone after weeks in intensive care, and for those who are still carrying what they saw.

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Sunlight through a deep blue and purple medieval-style stained glass windowTea light candles arranged on a dark stand
1,212 names, read in turn by chaplains, nurses and family members over fifty minutes.

Remembrance service

Every November, we read every name

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.

  • Sunday, November 15, 2026, 3 PM
  • Fairmount Medical Center chapel
  • Reception afterwards, children welcome
  • Send us a name to be read by November 8
Send a name to be read

Coming up

Groups and gatherings

Oct15

Spouse and partner group begins

6:30 PM · Fairmount chapel annex

Week one of eight. Supper at 6:15.

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Oct20

Loss of a child group

7:00 PM · Erie Shore, conference room 2

Ongoing group. New members welcome any week.

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Nov7

Pregnancy and infant loss morning

10:00 AM · Euclid Heights, family room

Coffee, a short reading and time to talk.

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Nov15

Service of remembrance

3:00 PM · Fairmount chapel

Every name from the past year, read aloud.

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Dec10

Blue Christmas

7:00 PM · Fairmount chapel

A quiet evening service for anyone dreading the holidays.

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Nothing in that category this month.

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Tell us a little, and we'll call you

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.

  • Address2201 Carnegie Ave, Suite 4, Cleveland, OH 44115
  • Phone(555) 014-3300
  • Emailchaplains@example.org
  • OfficeOn call 24 hours · Office Mon–Fri 8:30–4:30

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Bedside Chaplains

An ecumenical Christian chaplaincy serving patients of every faith and none, in six hospitals across Greater Cleveland since 1994.

Day or night

  • 2201 Carnegie Ave, Suite 4, Cleveland, OH 44115
  • (555) 014-3300
  • chaplains@example.org
  • Chaplain on call: 24 hours, every day
  • Office: Mon–Fri, 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM
  • Grief groups: Thursdays, 6:30 PM
  • Ask for a chaplain
  • Every faith
  • When time is short
  • Hospitals
  • Grief groups
  • Volunteer
© 2026 Bedside Chaplains of Greater ClevelandWebsite by Greater Purpose Web

Design notes

Why Bedside Chaplains looks the way it does

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.

Built for
Family members at a hospital bedside, patients who can still hold a phone, nurses and social workers making a referral, and people thinking about training as volunteer chaplains.
Navigation
Classic top bar. Logo left, pages right, one action. Familiar to every visitor.
Pages
Ask for a chaplain, Every faith, When time is short, Hospitals, Grief groups, Volunteer
Hero
a short action form as the hero: the one thing most visitors came to do (request a ride, ask for help, register a child) can be done before they scroll, with reassurance beside it. Variants: a = headline, reassurance and a photo on the left with the form as a raised card on the right; b = a tall photo carrying the headline, with the form and reassurance on a plain panel beside it; c = headline beside a photo, then the form laid out as one horizontal booking bar

Typography

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.

Color

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.

Layout and navigation

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 hero

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.

Calls to action

"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.

Photography

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.

Accessibility

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.

Type system

  • DisplayPetronaPetrona is a gentle, slightly calligraphic text serif; at headline size it sounds like a person speaking quietly, which is the only register that belongs in a hospital corridor.
  • TextAtkinson HyperlegibleDrawn by the Braille Institute for low-vision readers, so it stays legible on a phone held by someone exhausted, medicated or reading through tears.

Colour and contrast

Every text pairing is checked against WCAG 2.2 in both themes.

Light theme

PairingSampleRatioWCAG
Body text on pageAa13.41:1AAA
Body text on cardsAa14.97:1AAA
Secondary textAa5.64:1AA
LinksAa6.75:1AA
Button textAa7.54:1AAA
Accent label textAa4.8:1AA
Text on dark bandsAa13.41:1AAA
Muted text on dark bandsAa7.29:1AAA
Text on brand bandsAa7.54:1AAA
Muted text on brand bandsAa5.07:1AA

Dark theme

PairingSampleRatioWCAG
Body text on pageAa15.01:1AAA
Body text on cardsAa13.31:1AAA
Secondary textAa6.72:1AA
LinksAa9.07:1AAA
Button textAa9.44:1AAA
Accent label textAa8.79:1AAA
Text on dark bandsAa16.06:1AAA
Muted text on dark bandsAa8.12:1AAA
Text on brand bandsAa9.44:1AAA
Muted text on brand bandsAa5.66:1AA

Designed by Greater Purpose Web. Names, people and events are sample content.