Daily Activities

Patient Visitation, Pre-Surgery Visits and Spiritual Counseling

Crisis Intervention, Domestic Violence, Abuse and Trauma Counseling

Advance Directive, Organ Donation, Body Image, Adjustment to Illness and Family Counseling

Staff Consultation on Bioethics and Religious Issues in Medical Treatment

Liason with Community Clergy and Bereavement Support Follow-Up

Religious Resources (Confession, Kosher Food, Bibles, Rosaries, Sacrament of the Sick, etc.)

Daily Communion for Roman Catholic Patients

Volunteer Clergy, Chaplain Aides and Eucharistic Ministers

Roman Catholic Mass and Eucharistic Service

Programs and Events

Patient Groups: The Bereavement Support Groups for Providence Holy Cross and St. Joseph Medical Centers enable persons coping with grief to share their experience of loss together with others, facilitated by a chaplain and a social worker. The groups meet weekly. The Cancer Support Group enables persons coping with cancer to share their experience together with others facilitated by a chaplain and a nurse. The group meets weekly at Providence Holy Cross Cancer Center. The Mended Hearts Support Group enables persons coping with cardiac conditions to share their experience together with others, facilitated by a chaplain and a group leader. The group meets monthly at Providence Holy Cross Medical Center.

Memorial Services: The Interfaith Memorial Services provide an opportunity for patients, families and staff to come together regularly throughout the year as a community for a therapeutic experience in a supportive environment to cope with loss and grief. Services are led by chaplains quarterly at Providence Holy Cross and St. Joseph Medical Centers.

Interfaith Worship Services

Rosh HaShanah (Jewish New Year)

Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement)

Thanksgiving Interfaith Service

Martin Luther King Day Interfaith Service

Pesach (Passover)

Mass on All Holy Days of Obligation

Ethics Rounds

Clinical Pastoral Education Program for Clergy

Liason with Parish Nurse Partnership and Community Outreach Initiatives and Programs

Spiritual Care IOP and Committees

New Employee Orientation Spiritual Care Presentations

National Pastoral Care Week Events

Spiritual Care Volunteers Recognition Celebration

Baptisms In Extremis

Pastoral Services at Funerals at Patient/Family Request

The Department of Spiritual Care is part of the hospital community and is available as a resource for all hospital staff. The Department of Spiritual Care reaches out to the service area community through its chaplains in a variety of innovative programs and services and community liason through churches and synagogues.