Topics include health care reform, chaplaincy care, palliative care.
Finding Meaning ♦ Bringing Comfort
Regardless of one's religion or beliefs, our professional chaplains help people draw upon their personal source of inner strength to cope better with a stressful health crisis. Learn their credentials and how they contribute as members of the health care team.
Read powerful stories of healing.
Transforming health care through professional multifaith chaplaincy care – with research, education, and evidence-based clinical practice. Learn more.
Resources for health care professionals
- Increase patient satisfaction, staff morale, and return on investment.
- Improve your cultural and spiritual competence. Find tutorials.
Resources for patients and loved ones
Find multifaith reflections, prayers and stories that may help you cope with illness and loss.
National health care policy: benefits of palliative care and chaplaincy care Read transcript of national roundtable discussion of palliative care experts.
Read findings of All-Star panel of physicians, nurses, professional chaplains, social workers, professors, and university level researchers.
Read compendium of health care policy issues.
Extraordinary Health Care Professionals Honored at Wholeness of Life Awards Dinner
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New in Practical Bearings: the critical bibliography series for health care chaplains
Read “The Management of Care: Literature on Leadership and Organizational Development,” the latest in this series of reviews of the important publications on the theory and practice of multifaith spiritual care.
From Department of Studies in Jewish Pastoral Care:
Read the first paper in the New Scholarship Project: "Bikkur Holim: the Origins of Jewish Pastoral Care"
by Rabbi Charles Sheer, Director


