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Your illness has suddenly removed you from your home and friends, and placed you in a strange new environment. Now you are surrounded by many new friends who want to help you find health and strength. The Department of Spiritual and Religious Care is part of the multidisciplinary health care team and would like to be counted as one of these new friends.
The staff of Spiritual and Religious Care express the church’s and the hospital’s interest in your spiritual and physical welfare. We uphold the ethic of love and acceptance of each person as being essential for his or her health and quality of life, and in promoting and demonstrating the sacred worth of every human being. The department is responsible for the provision of spiritual and religious care for South-East Regional Health Authority, primarily at The Moncton Hospital.
We recognize the importance of spiritual values and religious beliefs in patient care and provide four full time staff for support, counsel, and/or sacraments. If you or a family member wishes for a visit from a member of the Spiritual and Religious Care staff, please complete the "Request for Spiritual and Religious Care" section on the Spiritual and Religious Care brochure and return it to your nurse.
Chaplains are trained as spiritual caregivers and safe-passage artists who will walk pastorally with persons dealing with issues in the past, present and the future. You should consider calling a chaplain when a patient or family member:
- Expresses anxiety about illness, treatment or other stressors;
- Questions the meaning and/or purpose of illness, pain, or life itself;
- Has a history of significant previous loss or death among family or friends;
- Questions the moral or ethical implication of therapies;
- Wishes to discuss end of life decisions particularly related to their religious beliefs;
- Raises religious issues or themes such as:
- Feelings of abandonment by religious group or God
- Feels guilty or deserving of punishment
- Faces interruption of religious practices or activities
- Asks for the Sacrament, priest, minister or other faith leader;
- Asks, "Why me?"
- When spiritual practices, religious beliefs, or cultural issues impact care.
Spiritual and religious care to patients and their families are also provided by different faith leaders and ministries. We orient community faith leaders to the hospital and support them by providing parking and access to the names of their adherents on the patient lists.
To make a referral or ask questions about spiritual care please call our office at (506) 857-5348 or page one of our chaplains. A 30-seat chapel is located next to the Spiritual and Religious Care office and it is open 24 hours a day.
The Spiritual and Religious Care office and the chapel are located on the main floor of The Moncton Hospital, just past Medical Imaging, on the left.
Regular mass:
Tuesday, 9:30 a.m. in the chapel
Sunday, 2:00 p.m. in the chapel
Ecumenical Services:
Tuesday, 7:30 p.m. on 5200 Unit (geriatrics)
To provide quality religious ministries and spiritual care within a health care system, working toward health and healing of persons, families, and communities.
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