Emotional & Spiritual Support
Providing emotional and spiritual support for patients and families during a trying time, pastoral care offers support and guidance from concerns that arise from health issues 24 hours a day, seven days a week. In addition to prayer and scripture reading, pastoral care services include:
- Rituals, sacraments and practices of faith
- Spiritual support concerns related to end-of-life matters
- Religious practice that may have an impact on decisions regarding medical care and compliance with treatment
- Questions of meaning and adjustment to the crisis of an illness, both acute and chronic
- Loss and grief
- Ethical and moral dilemmas
- Support through the course of treatment
- Lifestyle changes occasioned by illness or injury
- Contacting patients faith community
Patients and family may contact the chaplain in two ways:
- Ask the nursing staff to call for a chaplain
- Call the hospital operator, who will connect you to the chaplain