Many of the most supported palliative care programs struggle to provide spiritual care for palliative care patients, an issue that has become more significant as patients have increasingly diverse ...

Personalized care for the stress of serious illness. We use a comprehensive approach by focusing on the whole patient; addressing the physical, emotional, social, and spiritual suffering of disease.

On his first day training as a chaplain at UC San Diego Health, Rev. Matthew Valdez was embedded with the palliative care team. His very first patient died. Shaken by the experience, Valdez ...

The first time Dr. Jessica Zitter, a critical care and palliative care physician at Oakland’s Highland Hospital, was asked to join in prayer around a patient’s bedside with Chaplain Betty Clark, she ...

DOVER – Wentworth-Douglass Hospital palliative care chaplain Michele Guest Lowery chaired a subcommittee, and offered the closing prayer, at the recent Association of Professional Chaplains (APC) ...

There are many ways to die. Alone and spiritually bereft is among the most painful. As a hospice chaplain, I help people grow stronger in spirit as their bodies grow weaker. Our work is powerful and ...