Spiritual Care
The mission of Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare's (TMH) Spiritual Care Team is to promote the value of the human spirit in the healing process for any patients, loved ones and TMH colleagues.
What is Spiritual Care?
The Spiritual Care Team is a group of clinically-trained, professional healthcare chaplains who bring all the resources of spiritual care to support the spiritual and emotional well-being of our patients, and their families and friends, so that they may better cope with the challenges of a hospital stay. Chaplains are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week to provide spiritual support through compassionate listening and pastoral presence, prayer, ritual, sacrament, or to help patients connect to their faith.
Spiritual Care Services Are Available To Those Who:
- Desire spiritual support as they undergo medical or surgical treatment
- Would like to talk with someone about how their illness or hospitalization is affecting them
- Request sacramental ministry
- Want to have a better understanding of their relationship with the Holy or have a need for spiritual guidance and direction
- Would like prayer
- Are wrestling with issues such as grief, a faith crisis, inability to pray or feelings of abandonment by God or the Holy, or who experience a loss of hope or meaning in life
- Do not identify as religious, but who would like support during their hospitalization
- Would like to connect with local faith group communities or leaders
How to Contact Spiritual Care
To contact a chaplain, we provide the following convenient options.
In person: Ask the attending nurse to page the chaplain on duty.
By phone: Call the Spiritual Care offices at ext. 15867 from your hospital phone.
For Spiritual Care General Information please call 850-431-5867.
CPE Program
The Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) program at Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare (TMH) is accredited by the Association. For Clinical Pastoral Education, Inc. (ACPE, Inc.) in Decatur, GA. ACPE, Inc. is the premier, U. S. Department of Education-recognized, organization that provides the highest quality CPE programs for spiritual care professionals of any faith and in any setting.
CPE is interfaith professional education for ministry. It brings theological students, laypersons, and faith leaders of all faiths (pastors, priests, rabbis, imams and others) into supervised encounter with persons in crisis. The curriculum for CPE involves a unique, action-reflection methodology, which includes an in-depth study of “the living human documents,” meaning both the people who receive care as well as a study of us, the givers of care. Through the practice of ministry and the reflection thereon with ACPE Certified Educators and peers, the experiential learning that is CPE takes place.
CPE at TMH provides students with the opportunity to learn and demonstrate their spiritual care-giving skills, develop their pastoral/spiritual identity, and explore their reflections on spiritual care ministry in a diverse setting. The CPE program’s hallmark is the peer group of 3 or more students, where the participants learn by presenting their spiritual care work to other CPE Students to receive feedback that allows the presenter to evaluate their learning process.
