The Rev. Peggy Kelley, a Protestant chaplain, hugs nurse Jillian Katz, who is Orthodox Jewish, this month at Cedars-Sinai hospital in Los Angeles. (Dania Maxwell / Los Angeles Times) Before entering ...
(RNS) — “My religion is watching CNN,” a feisty elderly woman with cancer recently told a hospital chaplain who had knocked on the patient’s door to introduce himself. The patient, in a thin blue ...
J.S. Park helps patients and their families cope with death every day as a hospital chaplain. He explains what to expect as a ...
3 ROB ALEXANDRA THE PANDEMIC COULD TESTHE T FAITH OF EVEN THE MOST FAITHFUL BUT ONE HOSPITAL CHAPLAIN TELLS ME SEEINGHE T DEDICATION OF HIS COLLEAGUES HAS DONE NOTHING BUT GIVE HIM STRENGTH. CHAPLAINS ...
As sunlight streamed into the little chapel on a recent afternoon, the Rev. Jan Lee handed ukuleles to the group that had gathered, some wearing scrubs with plastic hair caps and booties while they ...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Chaplains often share a message of faith and comfort. But two chaplains, at two different Tristar hospitals, share another commonality. Just like the patients they pray over, ...
Like any hospital, Providence Holy Cross Medical Center is filled with operating rooms, examining rooms, nurses’ stations and labs. But to Kevin Deegan, the hospital’s senior chaplain, it also ...
Jan. 16—HARLINGEN — Chaplain Joe Jaime entered the room to cheers and fanfare Friday morning as hospital staff, friends and fellow chaplains came to wish him well with a small ceremony as he retires ...
Patricia Handley is known throughout the Northwestern Medicine Lake Forest Hospital community not only for her compassion, but also for her energy as she is always on the move. “She’s 85, but she acts ...
Before entering the room of a COVID-19 patient, the Rev. Peggy Kelley dons personal protective gear — both physical and spiritual. She pulls on a sterile gown and places a face shield over her mask.