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Department of Pastoral Care Full-Time Staff
Pastoral Care at Saint Louis University Hospital
- Since 1924 providing spiritual support and pastoral ministry to patients, family, staff
- Provides continuous pastoral care, 24/7 through CPE-trained staff and CPE students as a contracted service to Tenet Saint Louis Hospital through Saint Louis University
- Fully integrated into patient-care through interdisciplinary healthcare team involvement
- Discharge planning and patient care conferences
- Organ-tissue requesting
- Ethics consultations
- Advance directives
- Religious, spiritual, emotional, and cultural care
- Liturgical leadership and facilitations
- daily mass, holy days, national holidays, hospital celebrations
- Eucharistic ministers from community
- Interfaith spiritual events
- Weekly Islamic prayer
- Grief ministry and memorial service
- Departmental morning prayer
- Educational mentoring in hospital, medical school, and community
- Hospital resident and nursing staff
- Medical, Allied Health, and Nursing School
- Graduate theological school supervision of practical ministry
- Clinical Pastoral Education
- Archdiocesan deacon-aspirants
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