Spiritual Care provides spiritual support and guidance to ill and dying patients, their families and our staff. Spiritual Care caregivers, working closely with physicians and nurses, play an important role in the holistic care that we strive to provide to our patients. They are a resource available 24 hours a day, seven days a week to listen, offer prayer, ease stress, teach coping skills, and help patients and families deal with ethical and end-of-life issues.
Spiritual Care
Bon Secours Health System’s philosophy is to provide holistic care to meet the total needs – body, mind, and spirit – of the person served throughout the continuum of care. The System embraces spiritual care as integral to its mission. A commitment to spiritual care expresses the heart of Bon Secours’ ministry, and it permeates all levels of service and care giving within the system. A holistic and compassionate expression of spiritual care gives tone and texture to all words and actions expressed on behalf of those who are poor, sick and dying. In both formal and informal ways, all co-workers communicate the importance and significance of spiritual care by internalizing the values that characterize this ministry. Spiritual Care leaders and chaplains by virtue of their role, give explicit witness to these values by their compassionate ministerial outreach. They eagerly seek to encourage and promote holistic healing and growth by providing professional spiritual support, guidance and presence.
Good Samaritan Hospital
Our Spiritual Care Department and Chapel is located off the Hospital Main Lobby to the right of the entrance. We welcome the opportunity to be of service to you and your loved ones. A Roman Catholic Mass is celebrated in our hospital Chapel at 12:00 p.m. Monday through Friday and 10:30 a.m. on Sundays. Our Chapel is always open for prayer and quiet meditation. Additionally we provide a Kosher Jewish Meditation room located to the left of the front entrance. For more information, contact the Spiritual Care Department at 845.368.5171.
Health Matters
If you or a family member have lost a loved one, it can be difficult to cope with grief. Listen to Mary Remington, Director of Spiritual Care, on WTBQ Radio’s “Health Matters.” She offers guidance and support during a difficult time.
How can spiritual care calm, soothe and heal people from different faiths? Listen to Mary Remington, Director of Spiritual Care, on WTBQ Radio’s “Health Matters.”
As our loved ones age, their healthcare needs change. Do they have an Advanced Directive and are you prepared if they need Palliative or Hospice Care? Learn about options available for you or your family on WTBQ Radio’s weekly talk show, “Health Matters.” Hear from Sister Susan Evelyn and Father Marty Rooney of the Mission Department and Peg Palermo, RN, Palliative Care Coordinator, St. Anthony Community Hospital, a member of the Westchester Medical Center Health Network.
The Mission Department and the Spiritual Care Department co-hosted an educational and thought-provoking Lunch and Learn session for staff and community members during Spiritual Care Week 2019, with guest speaker and patient Sandy Sewell.
We invite you to watch: Ethics Lunch and Learn on Empowerment, Disability and Quality Care