| Hospital Restrictions Bar Chaplains from Ministering Bedside
Patients and staff are desperate for hope. But spiritual leaders must offer solace at a distance.
Griffin Paul Jackson
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As
medical facilities restrict visitors and ration protective gear amid
the coronavirus pandemic, more hospital chaplains have been forced to do
their job at a distance, while ministering to an onslaught of weary
patients, families, and health care staff.
“Due
to supply shortages of masks, this means that isolation rooms may
involve phone calls, notes, letters, a wave through the door rather than
(a chaplain being) inside the room,” said Heidi Greider, manager of
spiritual care at Seattle ...
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Thursday, March 26, 2020
Hospital Restrictions Bar Chaplains from Ministering Bedside
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