Thanks to donor support and board member passion, we were able to double our capacity at Stroger this month We are thrilled to introduce you to Matt Seeds and Micheal Smith, our two new chaplains at Stroger Hospital. Matt and Micheal started this week and they will be providing more coverage in the Cook County Hospital Trauma and Critical Care Units than ever before offered. Matt hails from Pennsylvania and has been working as a chaplain and manager of spiritual care over three continuing care retirement facilities (there were 26 communities in total that were part of this system).  He completed his [...]

Nike has worked with Bishop Anderson for over 20 years, giving counsel and assisting with fundraising. She is part of our family, because she has experienced the solace that a Volunteer Spiritual Care Visitor can provide.   http://vimeo.com/254736344

  On May 6th we officially kicked our Campaign for the Next 70 Years.  At The Art of Healing benefit, Executive Director Tommy Rogers proclaimed that  Bishop Anderson House has set a goal of raising $1.75 million over the next 3 years--and generous donors have already pledged $600,000. We are building a financial base to ensure that we can provide Chaplaincy, Education and Spirituality and Wellness through the end of this century. Our bold new vision of hybrid spiritual care visitor education combining in-person classes with online training will become a reality. Named the Ron Valentine Spiritual Care Visitor Training Center, [...]

We did it! This fall Bishop Anderson House hosted two concurrent sessions of Spiritual Care Visitor Training in both Illinois and Indiana. The Calumet Ministry Partnership provided the resources for a group that meet for 10 weeks at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Munster, Indiana. Many thanks to the Partnership for the solid financial backing that made our journey to Indiana possible. We welcome our newest 7 alumni to the Spiritual Care Visitor Training program and send them best wishes for a blessed journey into pastoral care in their community. We send a special thanks to The Rev. Kris Graunke, [...]

Our first full week of Pastoral Care Week events was a great success- we spent each day providing care and support to many, under one area of our mission. On Sunday, October 22nd, Chaplain Paul Goodenough presented "The End is Where We Begin," an advance directives workshop on facing the end of life and it's decisions with clarity and confidence. Monday, Paul supported the patients at the CORE Center. On Tuesday, the 24th Bishop Anderson House staff gave away "swag" at Rush and Stroger Hospitals. We gave out over 300 mini prayer squares, graciously knitted by our friends at St. [...]

Rush Hospital is striving to improve the health needs of the neighborhoods it serves, as made evident in their new mission statement: “improving the health of individuals and communities we serve." By expanding their vision outward towards the community Rush is expanding their impact. The life expectancy for west-side neighbors is less than 69 years, compared to 85 years only a few miles away in the Loop. From April 2016 to November 2016, Bishop Anderson House staff and trustees spent time considering our programs, priorities and resources, and how those factors all affect the impact we have. It was decided [...]

The Ruth M. Rothstein CORE Center’s Community Awareness Program is honored to have been a part of Illinois State Senator Patricia Van Pelt’s “2017 Summer Resource Fair."