Music of 18th to 20th century composers could be heard at the Advent Benefit Concert, which took place on the 7th of December 2014 at 3:00 pm in the St. Růžena Chapel on the grounds of the Vsetin Hospital.
The concert was performed by students and teachers of the Vsetin Elementary School of Performing Arts, which has supported the Vsetin Hospital over a long term. The entrance fee was a goodwill offering and proceeds are earmarked for the purchase of new beds for the Department of Long-term Care at the Vsetin Hospital. INDET SAFETY SYSTEMS a.s. (ISS) contributed to the purchase of the beds as well. Mr. Susumu Tokutake, the CEO of ISS, and Mrs. Jitka Šimarová, the Human Resources Department Manager, represented ISS at the event donating a check worth CZK 450 000. The donation was accepted by Mrs. Věra Prousková, the Director of the Vsetin Hospital.
ISS is a long-term supporter of the Vsetin Hospital, not only because of the fact that the company is situated in the Vsetin region, but also because it is part of the globally engaged Nippon Kayaku Group, which has been working in the market for almost a hundred years and is a supplier in the fields of applied chemistry, pharmaceutics and raw materials for the production of medical supplies etc.
For the second year, the Advent Concert was held in the hospital chapel. The St. Růžena Chapel has beautiful acoustics and an extraordinary atmosphere. It was built in 1911 with considerable support from the Thonet family. The wife of Theodor Thonet, who was the squire and furniture factory owner, Mrs. Rosa Thonetova decided to build the chapel at her own expense and she entrusted the project development to the architect, Mr. Hubert Fleischmann, the builder of the Thonton factory. He designed the chapel in a neo-romantic style, which was different from the original art nouveau hospital building, which was constructed by the Vsetin builder, Michal Urbánek. The chapel was mainly used by nuns but also by patients, other staff members and the general public, and it served as a place for infant baptisms. At the end of World War II, new equipment from the gynecologic-obstetric and UNK fields had been hidden in the chapel only a few hours before the building was taken by the army troops. The nuns remained in the hospital until 1956 when they were forced to leave the hospital and move to Fryšťák. For many years, the chapel served as a warehouse for civil defense. It was returned to the ownership of the Roman Catholic Church after 1989 and the necessary repairs and reconstruction were made. Bishop Jan Grauber blessed the chapel and it was opened once again to serve the needs of the general public. It is currently used for services, which are held regularly.
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