Available in various acute and continuing care facilities, this service offers compassionate support and response to patients, residents, families, and healthcare providers in time of need.
Spiritual Care Staff and Volunteers
- come from a variety of backgrounds and faith traditions
- offer a wealth of life experience
- great respect for people's differences and life challenges
- are caring and sensitive
Reasons You Might Like to Speak with a Spiritual Health Practitioner
- someone to pray with
- you are scared and just want someone to be with you and listen
- someone to contact your community clergy person to come and visit
- you are mourning a loss and would like to find supportive resources
- to have sacraments or rituals, such as a baptism, communion, anointing, or a blessing for yourself or a child
- you have spiritual questions you would like to explore with someone
- someone to sit with you in shared silence
- you are wondering about where God is because you feel like God is not listening to your prayers
- going to have surgery or an important medical procedure and would like someone to say a prayer with you or listen to you
- you would like to talk to someone who is not a physician or nurse, or is not somehow involved in your physical care Spiritual Care Services