HealthCare Chaplaincy Network (HCCN) has a decades-long history of leadership and accomplishment in the spiritual care field.

Founded in 1961, HCCN helped create the prevailing model for multi-faith spiritual care and develop an evidence base to inform chaplains’ work.

Our chaplains have provided person-to-person care at most major hospitals in the New York City metro area.

HCCN catalyzed chaplains’ participation in research to establish best practices and clarify chaplains’ positive impact on patient care.

HCCN has educated many thousands of chaplains, utilizing the most rigorous evidence-based training in the field.

Our annual Caring for the Human Spirit conference provides a popular and powerful venue where chaplains, nurses, and other professionals explore and share best spiritual care practices.

HCCN pioneered and continues to expand telechaplaincy, allowing people to reach chaplains by phone or video call for one-on-one care. 

HCCN is the parent organization of the Spiritual Care Association (SCA) and Capstone University.  

The Spiritual Care Association (SCA) develops and disseminates resources to educate and certify chaplains, nurses, and others, backed by evidence-based Common Standards and indicators of quality care.

Capstone University is an interfaith institution that focuses on care of the human spirit, and educates professionals of many disciplines to provide spiritual care to more effectively alleviate the suffering of patients, clients, and congregants.

Across the U.S., chaplains trained and supported by HCCN and our affiliates provide care at hospitals, hospices, and outpatient facilities, and in first response situations, the work place, and the military.

Nearly 1,000 chaplains have been board certified by the Spiritual Care Association.

More than 4,500 chaplains, nurses, and other healthcare professionals have taken courses on spiritual care at our online Learning Center.

HCCN and our educational partner, the Institute for Clinical Pastoral Training, teach over 600 chaplaincy students each year.

HCCN creates best-practice papers for chaplains, nurses, social workers, and physicians, supporting each discipline’s role in meeting patients’ and families’ spiritual care needs.

We have consulted with 60 hospitals and other health organizations in 20 states to improve their delivery of spiritual care.

Responding to HCCN’s advocacy, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services added chaplaincy to their system that evaluates all health care interventions – a crucial step toward the full integration of spiritual care in the medical arena.

Ample research affirms that care from professionally trained chaplains improves quality of life and health outcomes. 

We continue to make spiritual care a priority throughout our healthcare system and beyond.