At Nacogdoches Medical Center, we understand that physical health is just one component of wellness. Our Spiritual Support services are available to you and your family as you navigate through changes in your health and your life. Our chaplains provide a wide variety of important services, including:
Spiritual needs:
Searching for meaning in times of illness
Spiritual guidance, pastoral counseling and crisis ministry
Dealing with suffering, loss, grief, change or discouragement
Ethical decisions regarding continuing or discontinuing treatments
Religious concerns:
Bedside prayer with patients and families
Reconciliation and forgiveness
Spiritual guidance and pastoral counseling
Recognizing the hand of God in one’s life
Specific sacramental or denominational needs:
Arrange for Anointing of the Sick or other sacraments on an emergency basis
Distribution of Communion assisted
Contact patient’s church, parish, synagogue, mosque or house of worship