Patient + Family Amenities

Floorplan

Main Lobby

The Welcome Center for the Entire Campus

  • Complimentary valet parking and wayfinding escorts
  • Registration staff or mobile check-in for outpatient appointments
  • Comfortable waiting area for outpatient appointments
  • Quiet, low-stimulation waiting room
  • Biggby Coffee café
  • “Bloom,” a nature-inspired glass and metal sculpture that fills the three-story atrium
  • Larger-than-life digital screen
  • Play space for children

Floor 3

  • Solarium, double-sided fireplace and vending machines with healthy options
  • Rooftop terrace, open when weather permits
  • Windowed seating areas with comfortable benches and great city views (located at the ends of the north, west and south hallways)
  • Two social spaces with comfortable seating, computers, TVs, coffee machines, sink, microwave and bookshelves with educational materials for families

Floor 4

  • Four social spaces
  • Windowed seating areas with comfortable benches and great city views (located at the ends of the north, west and south hallways)

Floor 5

  • Two patient dining areas
  • Three fireplaces
  • Reflective Day Space
  • Hair salon
  • Windowed seating areas with comfortable benches and great city views (located at the ends of the north, west and south hallways)

Floor 6

  • Private inpatient rooms
  • Inpatient therapy gyms & ADL apartment
  • Windowed seating areas with comfortable benches and great city views
  • Social space with comfortable seating, television, coffee and vending machines, sink, microwave and refrigerator.
  • Laundry area

Outdoor Spaces

  • Gardens around campus include the Courtyard Garden, tucked between the Main Entry and the hospital, and the Therapath Garden on the south corner of campus. The gardens provide healing spaces for patients and visitors.
  • Rooftop terrace, accessible on third floor

Cafe at Mary Free Bed

We create restaurant-quality items from scratch using fresh, responsibly-sourced and seasonal ingredients.

Diners have many choices, from cook-to-order entrees and daily features to grill and deli items. The cafe also features pizza, homemade baked goods and takeout sandwiches, salads and snack cups. “Better-For-You” options, which are lower in calories and sodium and higher in fiber and good fats, also are available on most days.

The cafe, on the east end of the second floor, is open seven days a week.

Breakfast

7:00 a.m.-9:30 a.m.

Lunch

11 a.m. – 2:30 p.m.

Dinner

5:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.

Cafe closes at 2 p.m. on weekends

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Spiritual Care

Patients who come to Mary Free Bed for rehabilitation are facing life-changing physical and emotional challenges. We offer spiritual care to support your recovery.

If you wish to receive spiritual services, visits or sacraments, please ask your nurse to contact our chaplain.

Service

  • 3:30 p.m. Sunday, 4A Social Area
Prayer and worship service
  • 10 a.m. Sunday, televised from St. Andrews Cathedral
  • Mass
    • 12:05 p.m. weekdays, Our Lady of Mercy Chapel
Mass is celebrated in the chapel at Mercy Health Saint Mary’s Hospital, on the second floor of Lacks Cancer Center (pending COVID-19 restrictions).

    Sacramental Ministry

    Catholic

    Holy Communion is available Sundays and Tuesdays. Sacrament of Reconciliation and Sacrament of Anointing are available by your pastor on request.

    Protestant

    Holy Communion is available by your pastor on request.

    Other religious expressions

    Visits are available by our chaplain or your own spiritual leader by request. For needs specific to your religion, please ask that your spiritual leader be contacted.

    Lodging

    • Spacious, comfortable, fully accessible suites and rooms with flat-screen televisions, wireless Internet access, phone, climate control and room-darkening blinds.
    • Universal access includes comfortable seating and tables that raise and lower. Kitchenette with under-counter refrigerator. Open bathroom without threshold to shower that has a mounted seat, grab bars and adjustable showerhead.
    • Easily accessible by a hallway connected to the Mary Free Bed Professional Building and a skywalk across Lafayette Avenue to the main hospital and Outpatient Therapy Center.
    • Community area with a computer workstation.
    • Dining area with microwaves.
    • Complementary continental breakfast served daily.
    • Reserved parking.
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    Support Groups

    View a PDF version of the 2025 Support Groups here.

    Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired (ABVI)

    When: Second Tuesday of the month 1:30 p.m.  Remote, Kent County Phone Support Group
Contact: 701.801.6449 Call 616.458.1187 for additional group options.

    Brain Injury Association of Michigan (BIAMI)

    When: First Tuesday of the month 7-8 p.m.
    Where: Mary Free Bed Professional Building Meijer Conference Center 350 Lafayette Ave. SE Grand Rapids
    Contact: Apoorva Ojha, 848.565.8638 or ojhaapoo@msu.edu

    Great Lakes Amputee Network Group

    When: Third Tuesday of the month 6:30 p.m.
    Where: Mary Free Bed Rehabilitation Hospital, Orthotics & Prosthetics + Bionics 235 Wealthy St. SE, Grand Rapids
    Contact: Stephanie Rose, 616.591.8980 or stephanie.rose@maryfreebed.com
    Facebook: Great Lakes Amputee Network

    Mary Free Bed Spinal Cord Injury Group

    When: First Tuesday of the month No January or July meetings 6:15-7:30 p.m.
    Where: Mary Free Bed Rehabilitation Hospital* Wheelchair and Adaptive Sports 235 Wealthy St. SE, Grand Rapids
    Contact: Matthew Parrish, 616.840.7070 or matthew.parrish@maryfreebed.com

    Mary Free Bed Stroke Group

    When: First Wednesday of the month No January or July meetings 6:15-7:15 p.m.
    Where: Mary Free Bed Professional Building* Meijer Conference Center 350 Lafayette Ave. SE Grand Rapids
    Contact: Katie Harrington, 616.840.8922 or katie.harrington@maryfreebed.com

    Grupo de apoyo para pacientes con lesión en la médula espinal

    Se lleva a cabo: los sábados a las 2pm (una vez por mes)
    Sitio: el área privada que se encuentra a mano izquierda de la entrada principal
    Persona encargada: Katie Vásquez Oficina: 616-840-8705 Celular: 616-407-1924 solamente disponible el día del evento katie.vasquez@maryfreebed.com

    Inpatient Support Groups

    Mary Free Bed Spinal Cord Injury Peer Group

    When: Second Wednesday of the month 4:30-6 p.m.
    Where: 3C Social Area
    Contact: Kaitlin Salowitz at 616.840.8339
or kaitlin.salowitz@maryfreebed.com
1:1 mentor available upon request

    Mary Free Bed Stroke Peer Group

    When: First Wednesday of the month 4-5 p.m.
    Where: 4B South Social Area
    Contact: Alicia Hass, 616.840.8134
or alicia.hass@maryfreebed.com
1:1 mentor available upon request

    Community Resources

    Alzheimer’s Association of West Michigan

    2944 Fuller Ave. NE #101
    Grand Rapids, MI 49505
    616.459.4558

    Brain Injury Association of Michigan (BIAMI)

    129 Jefferson Ave. SE
    Grand Rapids, MI 49503
    616.551.4000

    American Heart Association

    3940 Peninsular Drive SE
    Grand Rapids, MI 49546
    616.285.1888
    heart.org

    Area Agency on Aging of Western Michigan

    3215 Eaglecrest Drive NE
    Grand Rapids, MI 49525
    616.456.5664
    aaawm.org

    Disability Advocates of Kent County

    3600 Camelot Ct. SE
    Grand Rapids, MI 49546
    616.949.1100
    dakc.us

    Hospice of Grand Rapids

    989 Spaulding Ave. SE
    Ada, MI 49301
    616.454.1426
    hom.org