A picture of a statue on the exterior of Abbott Northwestern Hospital. The statue is called “Healing Spirit” and was originally a part of Mt. Sinai Hospital prior to the hospital’s integration with what today is known as Abbott Northwestern.
Chaplaincy, in those cases, is like, you know, a doctor and a surgeon. A surgeon is the one that comes in and makes those small slices and attends to that one piece that needs to be removed and it might be something huge that the person would love to…
Anton Boisen, credited with the invention of the hospital chaplain, was himself chaplain at Elgin State Hospital near Chicago in the middle of the 1900s.