Spiritual care, at the scale of a building.

A nursing home has two hundred residents and one chaplain. A hospital has a thousand beds and a pager. The hours nobody can cover are the ones that matter most: the fear at 3 am, the morning after a diagnosis, the night before surgery, the long afternoon when the family has gone home. Elohai is for those hours.

How it works for you

You license Elohai for the people in your care, and they pay nothing. Provisioning is a text message: your staff send invitations in bulk, a resident or a family member taps once, and the app is theirs. It works offline, reads prayers aloud, and holds large type. A resident’s family joins their Upper Room from wherever they live, so a daughter in another state prays for her father by name every night, and he knows she did.

What you see, and what you never see

You see use and wellbeing across a floor, a unit, or a building: how many people prayed this week, how the daily check-ins are trending, which needs are most common. You never see an individual’s prayers, journal, or check-ins, and neither do we. That boundary is enforced in the database, not by a policy, and it is the same boundary that protects a patient’s own family from reading what they wrote.

Complement, not treatment

Elohai makes no clinical claims and replaces no one. It sits beside your chaplain, your social worker, and your clinical team. When a person’s check-ins trend down over time, the app points them toward real help. A later version will let a person choose to share that signal with your chaplain; nothing is shared without the person’s own yes.

Who it fits

Long-term care and senior living. Hospice and palliative care. Hospitals and home health. Chaplaincy programs in universities, workplaces, and correctional settings. Anywhere people are afraid at night and someone is responsible for their care.

Pilots

We are looking for a small number of pilot sites: a floor, a unit, or a house, with a chaplain or a director who will tell us plainly what worked and what did not. Elohai was built by a founder who has spent the last decade building digital health tools for exactly these settings, so the questions you ask about privacy, consent, and clinical boundaries are the ones we started with.