Visiting Clergy

Brigham and Women's Spiritual Care Services Department offers parking validation for up to 2 hours once per week for clergy coming to visit patients. Please see Parking for more information.

Clergy validation provided by the Spiritual Care Services Department is:

  • ONLY for clergy members with proper identification, i.e. business card or ecclesiastical identification
  • ONLY given to each clergy member for 1 two hour visit PER week
  • NOT for personal medical appointments or visiting family members

Clergy Parking

Your parking ticket can only be validated if you park at Service Center garage on the corner of Francis Street and Binney Street. We cannot validate any other parking garage in the area.

To get your parking validated for two hours:

  • during office hours Monday thru Friday from 9:00am-5:00pm, please go to the Spiritual Care Services Administrative Office (located on the first floor behind the Chapel)
  • during non-office hours please have your parking validated at the Information Desk at the 75 Francis Street entrance.

You will need to provide:

  • clergy identification
  • the name of the patient whom you visited
  • the patient's room number
  • your parish/congregation
  • your parish/congregation location
  • your parish/congregation phone number

We hope you have a wonderful visit and please let the patient you're visiting know, that if needed the Spiritual Care Services Department is available to them at all times (see our Contact page) .

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