2. Restoring hope and freedom
through rehabilitation.

3. Mary Free Bed Rehabilitation
Hospital has served the needs of
children and adults for more than a
century.

4. Comprehensive services
and an exclusive focus
on rehabilitation

5. enable specialty
physicians and
staff to achieve
outstanding
clinical
outcomes.

6. Mary Free Bed is a not-for
profit, nationally accredited,
acute care rehabilitation hospital

7. with 80 inpatient beds and
numerous outpatient spe-
cialty programs at its Grand
Rapids location.

8. The Mary Free Bed story
started with just one bed.

9. And we haven’t rested
since.

10. In 1891, a small group of Grand Rapids women
recognized the NEED FOR MEDICAL CARE for
patients of limited financial means.

11. They embarked on a
fund-raising campaign to
secure the use of a free bed in
one of the local hospitals.

12. Their compassion and care
sparked a long
and compelling story
of rehabilitation
and the human spirit.
www.maryfreebed.com/history