What is a professional chaplain and how is this role different from other clergy? While we’re representatives of our individual faith traditions, we do not proselytize or try to convert anyone. We ...

Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. The first time that the Rev. Michael Mercier, BCC (a board-certified chaplain), provided spiritual ...

When a chaplain walks into a hospital room, many people fear the worst. Jeremy Lambert and the Chaplain Partnership, based in North Olmsted, are working to change that by integrating chaplains into ...

While nurses in their colored scrubs and physicians in their white coats focus on patients’ medical needs, DeTar Healthcare ...

As a hospice chaplain, Jennifer Bradshaw is accustomed to meeting with patients and their families during their most difficult hours. These days, such meetings are more challenging than they have ever ...

-Two grants totaling $4.5M over four years from the John Templeton Foundation will better equip hospital chaplains to use research to guide, evaluate and advocate for the spiritual care they provide.

Moms know it. Doctors know it. A simple touch on the shoulder can be comforting, maybe even healing. During the COVID-19 pandemic, as social distancing and personal protective equipment came in and ...

Hospitals across the U.S. are classifying chaplains as "critical" employees. Rev. David Fleenor, a chaplain at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, visited a nearby morgue Wednesday morning and ...

Before entering the room of a COVID-19 patient, the Rev. Peggy Kelley dons personal protective gear — both physical and spiritual. She pulls on a sterile gown and places a face shield over her mask.

Klitzman is a professor of psychiatry in the Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons and the Joseph Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University. As a medical intern in the late 1980s, I’d ...

Kimberly Jackson remembers the disappointment and devastation that erupted after the execution of Troy Davis nearly ten years ago in Jackson, Georgia. Years of canvassing and protesting ended with ...

Editor's note: They are the first call in tragedy, and the comfort in the midst of it. Although offering two very different roles, dispatchers and chaplains serve as the bookends in what can be the ...