Chaplains Eugenia Lai and Deacon Bill Wilson in the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston offer spiritual care for patients at Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center and Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston.

This is a survey-based, multisite study conducted from March 2006 through January 2009. All eligible patients with advanced cancer receiving palliative radiation therapy and oncology physician and ...

Spiritual care from medical practitioners is infrequent at the end of life, despite national standards. This study aimed to describe nurses' and physicians' desires to provide spiritual care to ...

There was a striking juxtaposition of events recently when, at the same time concerns about the potential influence of Catholic ethos on the proposed new National Maternity Hospital in the grounds of ...

Physicians and nurses at four Boston medical centers cited a lack of training to explain why they rarely provide spiritual care for terminally ill cancer patients although most considered it an ...

Cleveland Clinic researchers have developed a working definition of spirituality to help establish a framework of spiritual care training and resources for clinicians providing bedside care. A recent ...

"We are excited to offer this groundbreaking program that will not only advance academic research but also provide practical training for those working in mental health and spiritual care," says Dr.

On December 12, 2017 and again on March 6, 2018, Rev. Eric J. Hall, President and CEO of Health Care Chaplaincy Network (HCCN) and its affiliated Spiritual Care Association (SCA), lobbied on Capitol ...

Spirituality and medicine have a long, intertwined, history. The very emergence of hospitals in the West arose in part out of the hospitality and care provided by monasteries. Many hospitals have ...