While doctors treat illness and mend the body, hospital chaplains heal the spirit and soothe the mind. Physicians and chaplains have a symbiotic relationship within the hospital walls. Memorial ...

“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 hospital ...

UnityPoint Health-Meriter runs one of nine chaplain training programs in Wisconsin through APCE, a national agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. Other programs are at Aurora Health ...

In my medical training, I once treated a young woman with metastatic breast cancer, who looked up at me every day with sparkling blue eyes and hope. Unfortunately, despite treatment, her cancer spread ...

(CNN) — Jason Callahan spends much of his days at the bedsides of people nearing the end of life. A chaplain in the palliative care unit of a hospital cancer center, Callahan supports patients and ...