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Spiritual Care at Bon Secours DePaul
Our mission in spiritual care is to attend to the spiritual needs of all patients, staff members, family members, and visitors. Our chaplains offer listening support, spiritual care guidance, and hospitality to all who are in need. Our services are provided through an ecumenical approach and are available regardless of an individual's faith and background. In carrying out this mission, each patient is visited within 24 hours of their admission. Follow-up visits are scheduled as appropriate.
The spiritual care team works closely with patients, families and staff members in the intensive care units and palliative care teams to provide support and prayer when it is needed.
Chaplains also attempt to visit and spiritually assess each patient in the hospital. Staff members, family members or patients may request a chaplain's visit or support by calling the DePaul main operator and having the chaplain paged, or by calling the Spiritual Care office directly at 889-5471.
Worship Opportunities
Regular Worship Services
Catholic Mass is
held in our chapel, located on the first floor between the main lobby and the elevators. The service is conducted by Father Leo Manalo at 12 pm on Tuesdays and Wednesdays and by Father Joe Metzger on Thursdays. Lay
Eucharist ministers from neighboring parishes visit the hospital and offer Communion to our Catholic patients.
Catholic Mass and other worship services are also broadcast on channel 6 in every patient room and in waiting areas so that all can worship as they desire, even when they cannot leave the floor. Channel 6 also provides quiet, meditative music and beautiful scenes from nature to create a calm, healing space in patient rooms.
Worship Services for Special Occasions
Worship services for special occasions are held when needed for memorials, retirements, and other large events in the chapel.
Sacred Space
Our chapel is located beside the elevators in the Main Hospital entrance. It is open from 6:00 am to 9:30 pm. We encourage patients, families, and staff members to use the chapel during this time for private meditation and prayer.
When should I call a chaplain?
A chaplain is in the hospital and available from 7:30 am - 9:00 pm daily and on-call as needed.
Please call the hospital operator and have the chaplain paged when you or your loved one is:
- In a crisis situation
- Facing surgery
- Experiencing anxiety, uncertainty about test results, diagnosis, treatment plan
- Needing support and a listening ear
- Wanting to receive more information about Advance Medical Directives
- Needing assistance getting in touch with a loved one stationed overseas
- Needing assistance getting in touch with pastor, rabbi, spiritual leader
- Has taken a turn for the worse and is dying
- When you’re not sure who else to call for help
Advanced Medical Directives
Bon Secours DePaul Medical Center respects your freedom to make
decisions about your medical care, including the right to accept or
refuse medical or surgical treatments. We want you to feel comfortable
asking questions about your care, and we want to answer your questions
in ways you can clearly understand. When our patients are fully informed
about their care and tell us how they wish to be treated, we can
provide good help to those in need - that is our mission.
At times, however, due to injury or illness, you may be unable
to make or communicate these decisions. That is why it is helpful to you
and your family for you to consider in an advance medical directive
what steps should be taken if you are unable to communicate your wishes.
Making these decisions in advance with your loved ones and your
physician can often eliminate unnecessary and difficult dilemmas when
considering your care.
When you are admitted to a Bon Secours hospital, our policy is
to ask you if you have advance medical directive. This routine procedure
enables our staff to insure that your wishes for your own medical
treatment are respected. A chaplain will gladly answer your questions
pertaining to Advanced Medical Care Directives (.doc) give you an Advanced Medical Care Directives Information Sheet (.doc) and help you execute a directive should you so desire. This service is free and requires no notary.
