The first Director, from 1958, was the Rev. Kenneth E. Reed, Ph.D., who is Director of Chaplaincy Services at the Methodist Hospital of Indiana. (religion-online.org)
Because general hospitals, unlike most mental hospitals, were under many kinds of administrative auspices (churches, community funds, self - perpetuating boards, as well as public agencies), the advance in chaplaincy service within them has had to take a variety of financial patterns. (religion-online.org)
These qualifications were formulated in consultation with the College of Chaplains, Division of the American Protestant Hospital Association; the Department of Ministry, the National Council of Churches of Christ in the U.S.A.; the Jewish Chaplains» Association; and the Division of Chaplaincy Services, United States Catholic Conference. (religion-online.org)