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Below links to the archives for the monthly e-Newsletter HealthCare Chaplaincy Today, the quarterly publication The Beacon, and lists selected news items.
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12/13/09
“Hospitals are finding that chaplains of all faiths are playing an increasingly vital role...(and) 'are a critical part of the team.’" Read the story.
Health Care Reform: Historical Challenge and Moral Imperative
9/10/09
Read Health Care Reform: A Compendium of Key Issues for Religious Leaders created for A Partnership of Faith, a gathering of New York City religious leaders.
Hospitals expanding duties of chaplains -- Role redefined as visits soar (Boston Globe)
8/31/09
PBS Series Religion & Ethics Newsweekly Interviews HealthCare Chaplaincy's Rev. George Handzo for Segment "Faith and the Brain"
7/18/09
The Rev. George Handzo, HealthCare Chaplaincy's vice president for pastoral care and leadership, was featured last week on the PBS show Religion and Ethics Newsweekly, considered the best TV program on the role of religion and the ethical dimensions related to current news events.
Rev. Handzo was interviewed for the segment "Faith and the Brain" where "Correspondent Lucky Severenson explores the field of neurotheology to learn if meditation and prayer have a direct impact on the brain. Traveling to the University of Pennsylvania Center for Spirituality and the Mind, the report showcases the use of imaging technology to scan the part of the brain that's activated when a patient prays or meditates. It's called the frontal lobes -- where empathy, focus, compassion and reason reside. Dr. Andrew Newberg of the Center demonstrates his discovery that the way we view God can make a huge difference in how it affects our well being."
In February, Rev. Handzo and Dr. Newberg participated in the TIME Magazine forum "Faith and Healing."
Rev. Handzo brings a remarkable perspective to this topic: he was educated first as a geologist at Princeton University, then at the Yale University Divinity School, followed by his distinguished career as a board certified chaplain. He says, "Faith and science are different realms of knowing. I respect both, but one does not depend on the other. The program asks: 'There are some who argue that certain people are predisposed or hardwired toward transcendent experiences and some are not.' Science may draw one conclusion on this premise of hardwiring, but faith is going to draw another conclusion. Is there a right and wrong? Who knows? Does it matter? Who knows? That’s what makes the world interesting."
You can find the video segment and transcript here.
Amsterdam News: HealthCare Chaplaincy's Al-Haji Imam Yusuf H. Hasan honored for 15 years of spiritual bereavement counseling
7/16/09
HealthCare Chaplaincy Responds to Senate Finance Committee
5/19/09
The Senate Finance Committee invited public comment on the report it released on April 19th -- "Transforming the Health Care Delivery System: Proposals to Improve Patient Care and Reduce Health Care Costs." HealthCare Chaplaincy submitted a response jointly with three other leading organizations -- The George Washington Institute for Spirituality & Health, the Association of Professional Chaplains, and the City of Hope National Medical Center.
The response says, "The palliative care model and its emphasis on interdisciplinary teams, and patient-centered care (including the recognition of spiritual needs), provides a powerful model which can serve to address many of the health care policy goals set forth in the Senate’s report on health care."
It recommends:
- Palliative Care be included in the health care reform legislation as a recommended model for delivering chronic care and managing chronic care patients during acute care admissions and after discharge from acute care settings. Palliative care or home-based teams would coordinate care for the physical, emotional, social, and spiritual aspects of the patient’s care and would include professionals qualified in each area.
- Palliative care must include attention to spiritual, religious, and existential aspects of care as consistent with the National Consensus Project for Palliative Care Guidelines and National Quality Forum for Preferred Practices and that care should be provided by the interdisciplinary health care professionals including a board certified chaplain.
- Demonstration project to test the effectiveness of interdisciplinary teams with palliative care training for chronically ill patients in acute care settings with the goal of producing more coordinated, lower cost, and higher quality care with reduced readmissions. The teams would include a physician, a nurse, a case manager, and a board certified chaplain. Spiritual issues of healthcare professionals should be attended to as a way of improving workplace stress management and team cohesiveness.
- Demonstration projects to test the effectiveness of interdisciplinary teams with palliative care training to manage chronic patients at home. The goal would be to manage all aspects of the patient and family needs in such a way that readmission was delayed or avoided.
You can read the entire response at http://www.gwish.org/
Time Magazine Features HealthCare Chaplaincy’s Work in “How Faith Can Heal” Cover Story
Time Magazine’s cover story “How Faith Can Heal” (February 23, 2009) describes how HealthCare Chaplaincy bridges science and faith to bring comfort to patients in the hospital and to help them find meaning. Time writes that HealthCare Chaplaincy “is slowly going national, and even the most literal-minded scientists welcome the development.” President & CEO The Rev. Dr. Walter J. Smith, S.J. contributed to the main piece “The Biology of Belief”.
The Rev. George Handzo, Vice President, Pastoral Care Leadership & Practice, participated with TIME’s Science Editor Jeffrey Kluger and scientists Richard Sloan, Ph.D. and Andrew Newberg, Ph.D. in “Faith and Healing: A Forum”, which appears in the magazine and in video. Contents are online at time.com.
Read the details
Hear NY Times Science Times podcast: The Rev.George Handzo describes the value of professional multi-faith chaplaincy within health care institutions
HealthCare Chaplaincy’s Wholeness of Life Awards Honor Emanuel Chirico of Philips Van-Heusen and Samuel C. Klagsbrun, M.D., of Four Winds Hospitals
11/4/08
New York Times story on multi-faith spiritual and pastoral care, including HealthCare Chaplaincy
10/28/08
Mayor Bloomberg Proclaims October 20-25, 2008 Pastoral Care Week in New York City
10/21/08
Chaplain of the Year Awarded to Rabbi Bonita Taylor of HealthCare Chaplaincy by New York Board of Rabbis
7/1/08
HealthCare Chaplaincy Elects T. Michael Long New Chairman of The Board
6/26/08
8/29/07 For Immediate Release
Rabbi Charles Sheer Joins HealthCare Chaplaincy as Director of Department of Studies in Jewish Pastoral Care
Read the details
John Templeton Foundation Awards HealthCare Chaplaincy $1.1 Million - Largest Grant in HCC History Will Transform Chaplain Education
8/23/07
NY Times: The Hospital Chaplain -- Offering Comfort to the Sick and Blessings to Their Healers
7/17/07
Crain's Health Pulse: Hospitals switch to chaplains for hire
11/1/06
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