Our Pastoral Care staff offers you and your family support in your use of personal resources of faith when dealing with illness. We also provide:

• Encouragement and a listening ear during difficult times.
• Assistance in commemorating your experiences of God's sustaining, protecting and healing presence.
• Help to explore questions of faith and spirituality.
• Practical help and comfort in time of grief and in crisis situations.
• Congratulations on the birth of children, progress in recovery or the healing of illness.

When providing these services, our staff perform a number of activities that include:

• Visits to you and your family upon admission as well as at your request, on the nursing units, in the waiting area, the Emergency department and other outpatient areas.
• Response to medical emergencies and deaths.
• Help in getting you and your family involved in support groups, if needed.
• Help in contacting your clergy and representatives of your own religious tradition to celebrate sacraments and perform rituals.
• Providing Communion, Baptism and other sacraments upon your request.
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