| Hospitals are large and often imposing institutions. | | | | Coal City Hospital and Southern Will County |
| Many people associate their tall buildings and cold, | | | | Hospital are scenes of great achievements. You |
| clinical atmosphere with poor health and even | | | | find the birth of children happening every day; the |
| dangerous conditions. They handle the most | | | | recovery of the sick or injured. Hospitals are like |
| serious illnesses. Although they are powerful | | | | small cities providing a range of services to a |
| institutions that save lives, there need to be | | | | tremendous variety of people. The young and the |
| alternatives. When serious or life threatening | | | | old alike may pass through the doors of the |
| emergencies strike, hospitals like a Southern Will | | | | hospital. The vast majority leave as healthy and |
| County Hospital serve the needs of the local | | | | satisfied customers. |
| population with a wide range of services. | | | | These hospitals make it a point to be clinically |
| Emergency services are readily available but most | | | | sound yet patient positive. It is a known fact that |
| people don't consider the fact that hospitals can | | | | a positive environment promotes healing. The |
| house wonderful life affirming events. One of the | | | | doctors and staff at these hospitals work hard to |
| most obvious is the birth of a child. Children are | | | | create that positive environment. Patients need |
| born at hospitals every day. It might be a close | | | | physical and mental care. This applies to the small |
| friend or your own wife giving birth to a beautiful | | | | injuries all the way to the more significant cases. |
| new baby. Despite the dramatic scenes on | | | | Hospitals may get a lot of bad press but the fact |
| television, most babies are born healthy and | | | | of the matter is that we need them. They play a |
| happy. It's a wonderful sight to see a new mother | | | | pivotal role in supporting our society. You may |
| holding her child for the first time. | | | | never need a hospital but it is a secure feeling to |
| These scenes repeat themselves at other | | | | know they are there for you. You may drive by |
| hospitals all over the state. You can visit Coal City | | | | one of these hospitals every day. Do you think |
| Illinois Hospital and find the same new lives | | | | about the terrible tragedies or the wonderful |
| entering our world. You might also find someone | | | | successes taking place inside those walls? Hospitals |
| who had been briefly disabled by an accident | | | | fill a need and that need covers a range of |
| taking his first steps across a room. If you | | | | circumstances. While most people only think of |
| stayed long enough, you would witness the | | | | the negative circumstances, it is important to |
| cheers of his therapist and doctors as he walked | | | | remember the brilliant miracles that unfold every |
| out of the hospital and back to a normal life. | | | | day. |