Newport Hospital Relocates Chapel Dedicated To Former Surgeon

(Newport, RI)--Family members of a doctor who was honored with the naming of a chapel at Newport Hospital are dismayed to find out about the closing of the space.The family of Charles Serbst, a surgeon at the hospital who was a prisoner of war in World War Two, helped establish the chapel in his memory after he died in 1969.The hospital has moved the chapel into a smaller room and says it will install a plaque commemorating Serbst.Officials say the old chapel space was needed for a consolidation of women's health services.


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