The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) recognizes HCMA as an example of how the JCAHO standard for pastoral care services can be met in a hospital or other healthcare facility or hospice programs.
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Founded in 1939, HCMA is a non-sectarian, non-profit professional chaplaincy organization that recruits, trains, certifies and encourages Christian Chaplains serving in healthcare facilities (both acute and long term care) and hospice programs worldwide.
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In what we consider a highly contentious article (written from the perspective of a hospital chaplain who is part of a chaplaincy training program) it is ...
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1924976/
Crittenden JW. Hospital chaplaincy and medical records. Medical Record News. 1977;48:30-36. Abstract ... Many chaplains and most chaplaincy programs in the United States -- with encouragement from their accrediting organization, the Association for Clinical Pastoral Education (ACPE) -- have begun to assume a more...
www.medscape.com/viewarticle/552447
About 300 hospitals and related centers are certified to teach chaplaincy by the association, the vast majority of them nonreligious hospitals. Locally, UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles Childrens Hospital and the Methodist Hospital of Southern California in Arcadia offer programs.
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NEW YORK -- It was 8 a.m., and the subject was death.A 55-year-old man was wasting away from lung cancer and cirrhosis.. ... Last year, Chodo and Koshin began bringing students into the hospital as part of the country’s first Buddhist chaplaincy training program accredited by the Association for Clinical Pastoral Education.
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In addition to these on-of-a-kind programs, the Foothills Hospital houses 22 operating theatres including a specially designated trauma O.R., a 24-hour Emergency Department, a 22-bed Intensive Care Unit and a 24-bed Cardiac Care Unit. ... Chaplaincy Training Programs...
www.calgaryhealthregion.ca/scs/training/training.htm
Holiday Awareness Programs ... Hospital Visitation ... Specific Programs Offered for...
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Pastoral Programs ... Volunteer Programs ... Chaplaincy Training...
www.brighamandwomens.org/chaplaincy/programs.aspx www.brighamandwomens.org/chaplaincy/programs.aspx
A hospital setting where Jewish patients and their loved ones can gain real comfort from a rabbi or chaplain who has had actual training in spiritual counseling and who, as a result, can be a source ... Jewish Community Centers where a creative and pluralistic-minded programming director can develop meaningful programs,
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