Determining pastoral care needs and securing full-time equivalencies (FTE) to staff them appropriately are ongoing challenges for professional chaplaincy. This article discusses both the contractual and ratio approach to staffing with particular attention to the latter. The author details a ratio model,...
Then-chaplain Bob Miller, now a VITAS executive vice president and chief compliance officer, describes the teams’ dedication to caring for patients wherever they called home. “We’d meet them under a bridge at a certain time of the day,” Miller says. “The whole team—the aide,...
there is the assumption that these people are unarmed (or, in the case of troops, not able to use whatever arms they may have on them). In the case of medical personnel and chaplains, this raises the interesting paradox that these people are not actually prohibited from bearing arms in ...
“This idea of making someone feel better — I worked as a hospital chaplain for a while, and that was kind of the thing they told usnotto do,” Lee said. Instead, prayer — which for some will be simple ritual. “There is, I guess, the explicitly kind of Christian or religious un...
In keeping with its objective to transform health care into a high reliability industry, The Joint Commission will share these proven effective solutions with the more than 20,500 health care organizations it accredits.Update: January 14, 2015one in 136 hospital patients become seriously illas a ...
In the case of medical personnel and chaplains, this raises the interesting paradox that these people are not actually prohibited from bearing arms in order to protect themselves; but if they do arm themselves, they give up certain aspects of their protected status. So in order to be fully ...
Iowa’s governor made it clear that she despised the Satanic Temple display while conceding the legality of its existence. If one religion can put a display on public property, then all religions can exercise that right. This principle is just as American as baseball, apple pie, and the ...
Unfortunately, many people don’t talk about hospice until their doctor is telling them, “there’s nothing more we can do.” Dying is seen as a medical failure by professionals, and because of this mentality, hospice is often brought up too late to ensure that the patient receives good ca...
but was MIA at the local NSA hospital facility for about a month after that. Upon his return to the squadron, his face still looked like it had been hit by a Mac truck. So, as only compassionate Marine squadronmates can do, we felt it our duty to give him a new nickname. From the...
Supreme Court ruled that government funding for chaplains by state legislatures was constitutional because of the "unique history" of the United States. The federal government in 1791 had authorized a hired chaplain for Congress precisely three days before the ratification of the Bill of Rights, ...