Spiritual Care
The mission of the spiritual care department is to enhance the community’s health status by providing a spiritual presence that promotes healing. Life’s struggles are always easier when you have someone with whom to share. When you are faced with challenges in a hospital setting, a hospital chaplain and other members of the spiritual care department are always available – ready to provide a listening ear, share spiritual counsel, extend the hand of friendship and help you find the resources you need to travel more easily down life’s path.
Spiritual care promotes a patient-centered approach to care by:
- Supporting an individual’s values and beliefs
- Promoting spiritual beliefs, attitudes and practices in support of recovery
- Offering support and care in the midst of pain and suffering
- Regarding people of all faiths, ethnic backgrounds and races as individuals of worth and value
Community services include:
Parish Nurse Ministry
- Pairs a nurse with a local church congregation
- Helps people in religious communities reach their optimal level of physical, spiritual and emothional health
Intensive Prayer Unit
- Partners with area churches to pray for patients who request prayer
Blessing of the Hands
- Provides spiritual support for caregivers by annointing their hands
Spiritual Counseling
- Supports patients, families and staff in the community in times of crisis and uncertainty
Our chaplain ministry consists of staff and volunteers who:
- Provide care and support for those coping with spiritual needs and emotions in the hospital setting
- Give spiritual and emothional support in times of crisis
- Meet the religious needs of patients by responding to requests for prayer, confession, baptism and other sacraments and perform ceremonies as requested by patients, families and staff
- Provide support to patients, families and staff as they deal with difficult moral or ethical situations
- Support patients, families and staff in face of grief, death and bereavement
A chaplain is on call for emergencies 24 hours a day at any of our hospitals:
Holston Valley Medical Center
423.844.3799 – Staff Chaplain
423.224.4000 – Pager
Bristol Regional Medical Center
423.224.5910 – Staff Chaplain
423.844.4600 – Pager
Mountain View Regional Medical Center
276.679.9100
Takoma Regional Hospital
423.798.8137 – Staff Chaplain
423.639.3151 – Pager
Lee Regional Medical Center
276.546.1440
Lonesome Pine Hospital
276.523.3111
Hawkins County Memorial Hospital
800.976.1946 – Pager
Hancock Community Hospital
423.733.5000 – Pager
Spiritual Care
P.O. Box 238, Kingsport, TN 37662
423.224.5917
423.224.5345 - Fax
Spiritual Care Service brochure