Pastoral Care/Chaplaincy is available at ProHealth Care hospitals and centers to address the spiritual health of the patient as an integrated and important part of quality health care.
What is Pastoral Care/Chaplaincy?
Pastoral Care at ProHealth Care facilities offers the patient, the patient's family and the staff the opportunity to bring their spiritual/religious beliefs and practices to the process of treatment and recovery from illness. Also, it affords the patient, the patient's family or the staff member the opportunity to maintain their connections to their faith communities in which they are involved.
What is the ProHealth Care's vision for Pastoral Care/Chaplaincy?
ProHealth Care supports Pastoral Care/Chaplaincy along with excellent personal and medical care as an important ingredient in quality healthcare.
What does pastoral care offer patients and the community?
Pastoral care, since ProHealth Care serves a religiously and ethnically diverse population, offers the patient the assurance that his/her religious/spiritual preferences will be honored, allows the patient and the patient's family to bring their spiritual and religious beliefs to the healing process and when the patient wishes, that he/she will be ministered to by hospital chaplains or community-based clergy.
What are the most common reasons that a patient or a patient's family or a staff member might request the services of Pastoral Care/Chaplaincy?
1. When patients and families request spiritual or emotional support.
2. When a staff member senses that spiritual or emotional support is needed.
3. When deaths occur.
4. When a serious diagnoses is delivered.
5. At times of grief and loss.
6. When patients are scheduled for major surgery.
7. When patients and their families are making endof-life decisions.
8. When patients or families request religious resources.
9. When a staff member needs support.