OSF St. Joseph breaks ground on new chapel

Posted on June 5, 2019
OSF HealthCare St. Joseph Medical Center held a blessing and groundbreaking ceremony for its new chapel at the hospital. (Photo OSF HealthCare St. Joseph Medical Center)

 

By Neil Doyle

BLOOMINGTON – A local hospital is ready to break ground on a new 3,000 square foot chapel.

OSF HealthCare St. Joseph Medical Center, located at 2200 East Washington Street in Bloomington, held a blessing and ceremony Wednesday for its $1.2 million chapel project. The project is entirely funded by donors.

“At OSF HealthCare, we are fortunate to create environments where faith and healing are inseparable,” said Lynn Fulton, President, OSF HealthCare St. Joseph Medical Center in a statement. “The chapel is a physical space within the hospital set aside as a place of worship, a place of prayer and sometimes a place of refuge for our patients and our Mission Partners.”

The new chapel will be nearly double the size and will have the ability to accommodate 74 visitors.

Construction is expected to take about 10 months.

Neil Doyle can be reached at [email protected]

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