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Two Leading Bioethicists Receive Pioneer Medal for Outstanding Leadership in Health Care
Honored with HealthCare Chaplaincy’s Pioneer Medal were Edmund D. Pellegrino, M.D., M.A.C.P., one of the founders of medical bioethics, former president of the Catholic University of America and former dean of the school of medicine at Stony Brook University, and Stephen G. Post, Ph.D., director for the Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care and Bioethics, Stony Brook University.
Watch the video of their keynote addresses from our annual convocation on May 8, 2012 held at Saint Peter’s Church in Manhattan.
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Read "Bigger Roles for Chaplains on Patient Medical Teams" and "Informed Patient: Bringing Spirituality to Medicine."
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 For administrators at hospitals, medical centers, rehabilitation/ nursing homes, and home health care facilities:
Discover here how our Board Certified Chaplains can help you meet your clinical and financial goals.
 Is your health care institution seeking Joint Commission Advanced Certification for Palliative Care?
Make sure your team includes a Board Certified Chaplain with palliative care specialty training. Learn more.
Read Annual Report 2011. Read fact sheet.
  says, "Palliative care is one of the fastest-growing fields in medicine."
Learn why, find answers to common questions, and useful links.
 Finding Meaning - Bringing Comfort
Our professional chaplains help hospital patients, loved ones, and staff who are dealing with life-changing health situations -- regardless of who they are or what they believe -- identify and draw upon their source of strength to find meaning and comfort. Learn how they contribute as members of the health care team. Read powerful stories of healing.
 Sources of comfort and meaning
Find multifaith reflections, prayers and stories that we hope give you some help as you cope with illness and loss.
 Spiritual Care in the Aftermath of Disasters
Read riveting stories from chaplains who lived through the devastating Joplin, Missouri tornado and provided spiritual care in Japan after the tsunami.
 CNN’s Anderson Cooper celebrates our 50th anniversary in 2010 and introduces the plans to build the first National Center for Palliative Care Innovation. Watch.
See and hear highlights from our 50th Anniversary Gala.
 In a major speech president and CEO Father Smith presents bold vision to strengthen chaplaincy profession
The Network on Ministry in Specialized Settings (the COMISS Network) honored HealthCare Chaplaincy’s president and CEO, the Rev. Dr. Walter J. Smith, S.J., with its highest honor, the 2012 COMISS Medal, in recognition of his contributions to the profession and to the field of chaplaincy care.
A vice president of a multi-state health care system says, “The address you gave about the work yet to be done in the chaplain profession was excellent in my view.” Read it here.
 22% of New York Afghanistan and Iraq war veterans have probable diagnoses of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and/or depression. Professional chaplains can help them
Chaplain Colonel Eric Olsen of the New York National Guard Joint Forces says that professional chaplains are especially skilled at “sitting in front of somebody, finding out who they are, where they’ve been, and loving them, and empowering them to get to where they feel they need to be. So they no longer feel threatened.”
Read HealthCare Chaplaincy’s testimony and recommendations to the U.S. Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs on this important issue.
Strengthen your professional knowledge and practice with these downloadable webinars:
 Meet the “Spiritual Bodybuilder.”
At Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Sister Elaine Goodell helps "hundreds of patients annually of all faiths – and nonbelievers, too." Read a profile and conversation.
 Read "The Soul of Bioethics" e-newsletter edited by Dr. Harry (Rick) Moody, AARP's director of academic affairs.
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