Available 24 hours per day - Seven days per week
Each Hospital has a Chaplain who provides or coordinates requests for Spiritual and Religious Care in partnership with several community Spiritual Care practitioners and volunteers. The Spiritual Care team makes over 9000 visits each year to patients and family members within the four hospitals of QHC. Please inquire with a nurse in any of our patient care areas to request Spiritual Care.
Spiritual and Religious Care resources available at each hospital:
Belleville General Hospital: A prayer/meditation room is located on the third floor near the main hospital entrance at Hastings 3. A multifaith Worship Centre is located on Sills 3, room 366. A multifaith chaplain is available or on-call at all times. If you require spiritual or religious care please request that your nurse contact the Chaplain. If you would prefer your own clergy person, the Chaplain would be pleased to make the contact for you. A multifaith worship service is provided once a month. Ask your nurse or the chaplain for information regarding time and place.
Trenton Memorial Hospital: The Worship Centre is located on the main floor. A chaplain is available or on-call at all times. If you require spiritual or religious care please request that your nurse contact the chaplain. If you would prefer your own clergy person, the chaplain would be pleased to make the contact for you. A multifaith worship service is provided once a month. Ask your nurse or the chaplain for information regarding time and place.
Prince Edward County Memorial Hospital: A Worship Centre is located on the second floor near the north elevators. If you require spiritual or religious care please request that your nurse call one of the on-call Chaplains. If you would prefer your own clergy the chaplain would be pleased to make contact for you.
North Hastings Hospital: A Worship Centre is located on the first floor of the professional building attached to the hospital. A mutlifaith chaplain is available or on-call at all times. If you require spiritual or religious care please request that your nurse contact the chaplain. If you would prefer your own clergy person, the chaplain would be pleased to make the contact for you.
About Spiritual and Religious Care:
Spiritual and Religious Care Services are not just about praying, giving communion and last rites (although that is a part of what we do). Much of the suffering that occurs during terminal illness or as a result of incapacitating accident or disease is not related to physical pain but rather mental and spiritual suffering.
There are two facets of Spiritual Care:
Spiritual Support - Listen to and respect another's individual expression of their spirituality.
Spiritual Intervention - the work of a Chaplain or Spiritual Counselor. Spiritual intervention is an attempt to assist a patient or family member in wrestling with a spiritual question or in dealing with spiritual distress or a spiritual crisis. The goal is to help the person come to a more peaceful and centered relatedness.
