The meditation room is the best place in the hospital. People in the hospital are really suffering. If you go down there and sit awhile, it soothes you. Western medicine still isn't good at fixing broken hearts. Sinai-Grace's Christian chaplain, Judy Schlueter, sees increased interest in the prayer rooms among patients and staff of many denominations.
Hospitalization makes people's faith have to stretch.
It forces you to grow in relationship to your religion. Some people's faith is so brittle. Discovering a scientific explanation for the power of prayer is a practical goal driven by faith. Several studies have shown that people who have strong religious faith live longer, enjoy better health and rebound sooner after illness. One showed that patients who talked to a chaplain spent two fewer days in the hospital.