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)
Main Lobby
- 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
- 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).
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.
Located on-site at Mary Ives Hunting Center | 616.840.8100
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.
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