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Patient & Family Chaplain Services |
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The goal of UCSD's Chaplain Services and Pastoral Care is to provide compassionate, caring, spiritual support to patients, family members and friends which respects their beliefs, culture, traditions and value systems.
Pastoral and spiritual care services are available to all at no charge.
UCSD's Chaplain Services offer the following services to patients and their families:
- Patient visitation
- Spiritual consultation
- Pre- and post-operation visit
- Comfort and emotional support
- Prayer
- Readings of holy text
- Bibles and other sacred writings
- Inspirational writings
- Consults on religious/spiritual beliefs and concerns
- Consults on meaning and/or purpose of life and/or experience of dying
- Sharing of feelings, of fear, hope, anger, joy and sorrow
- Search for inner peace
- Spiritual assessment
- Support in decision making and ethical dilemmas
- Encouragement, thanksgiving and/or celebration during treatment phase
- Contacting patients clergy or spiritual leader
- Blessings, ritual and sacrament
- Baptism
- Communion
- End-Of-Life support
- Grief and bereavement support
- Crisis intervention
- Meditation room
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