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Spiritual Care at Bon Secours Maryview
At Bon Secours Maryview Medical Center, our spiritual care team meets with patients, families and staff members to offer listening support, spiritual care and hospitality. Chaplains journey with patients and family members while they are here in the hospital. The spiritual care team works closely with patients, families and staff members in the intensive care units at Bon Secours Maryview, in various support groups, and on our palliative care team.
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 hospital operator and having the chaplain paged.
+ Meet Bon Secours Maryview's Spiritual Care Team
When should I call a chaplain?
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
A chaplain is in the hospital and available from 7:30 am Monday morning to 9:00 pm Saturday night and from 10:30 am to 9:00 pm on Sundays. A chaplain is also on call Saturday and Sunday nights, beginning at 9 pm.
Worship Opportunities
Regular Worship Services
Catholic Mass is conducted by Father Leo Manalo on Sundays and Mondays at noon in the chapel on the first floor of the hospital, near the Main Entrance. A lay Eucharist minister from neighboring parishes visits the hospital daily to offer Communion to our Catholic patients.
Catholic Mass and other worship services are
also broadcast on channel 2 of each patient's television on Sundays and Mondays so that
patients, who are physically unable to join the service, can worship
too. Channel 2 also provides quiet, meditative music and
beautiful scenes from nature are available to create a calm and healing
space within each room.
Service of Remembering and Healing
An ecumenical Service of Remembering and Healing is offered on the first Wednesday, every other month, at 11:45 am. It is held in the chapel on the first floor of the hospital. This service welcomes staff and family members, friends of patients and patients, who are able, to attend. We join together as we remember those we love who have died and begin the process of healing and hope. As we come together, we recognize the common pain and suffering associated with grieving the death of a loved one or close friend, coworker.
Worship Services for Special Occasions
Ash Wednesday, employee retirements, Bon Secours Recognition Day, and other large events are recognized with services in the chapel throughout the year.
Sacred Space
The chapel is located beside the elevators in the Main Hospital entrance and is open and available for private meditation and prayer.
Advanced Medical Directives
Bon Secours Maryview 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 assure 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
Clinical Pastoral Education at Bon Secours Maryview Medical Center
Maryview Medical Center is an accredited ACPE site for training chaplain residents and interns.
+ Learn more information about Clinical Pastoral Education at Bon Secours Maryview
