Our Advisor and artist member Tobi Kahn was featured with EMET, his meditative space created in 2002 for
the HealthCare Chaplaincy in New York.
The first question might well be, why does
healthcare chaplaincy matter?
I believe professional
healthcare chaplaincy can also have a positive financial impact upon healthcare systems and institutions.
This essay examines in broad strokes what
healthcare chaplaincy currently offers, reviews some of the current spiritual care assessment tools in use, introduces some new assessment approaches, and demonstrates how
healthcare chaplaincy can help accomplish the UN Millennium Goals.
Meaningful
healthcare chaplaincy helps open up the healthcare delivery system so that those who have experienced oppression or barriers to care feel (and are) safe to enter into that system.
Moreover, as introduced in this essay,
healthcare chaplaincy can help support the accomplishment of the UN Millennium Goals.
To most fully capture nuanced experiences and beliefs so as to accurately assess the patient's / family's / staff's spiritual / religious and cultural needs,
the healthcare chaplaincy field needs to develop more robust spiritual assessment tools.
Professional
healthcare chaplaincy can contribute toward the fulfillment of the UN Millennium Goals by striving to make healthcare accessible for everyone.
For the sake of length I will not parse out every goal for which
healthcare chaplaincy can be a supportive element, but will instead provide a few examples.
Since
healthcare chaplaincy was initially called pastoral care (and in many places still is), it makes sense that the primary focus was upon overtly theological issues and experiences.
Current spiritual care assessment tools most definitely should be used within the practice of
healthcare chaplaincy (and the study of spirituality and health).
This essay examines in broad strokes what
healthcare chaplaincy currently offers, reviews some of the current spiritual -LSB-...]
The HealthCare Chaplaincy plans to build a 16 - story palliative care center on a parking lot adjacent to the mixed - income residence.
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Healthcare chaplaincy is still a young field and we are constantly learning what this work can offer patients, their families and friends,
healthcare providers, and
healthcare institutions.
Healthcare chaplaincy that recognizes and supports each patient as an individual with full rights to
healthcare and support at the end of life is, at its foundation, practicing respect for, promoting, and protecting human rights.
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