Hospital chaplains provide spiritual and emotional support, and like other health care workers, they struggle with burnout.

“My religion is watching CNN,” a feisty elderly woman with cancer recently told a hospital chaplain who had knocked on the patient’s door to introduce himself. The patient, in a thin blue hospital ...

In my medical training, I once treated a young woman with metastatic breast cancer, who looked up at me every day with sparkling blue eyes and hope. Unfortunately, despite treatment, her cancer spread ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Hospital chaplains are tasked with the spiritual care of COVID-19 patients being treated throughout the country. Chaplains often become liaisons for families who cannot enter the ...

Hospital chaplains often meet people at the lowest point in their lives. We hear from one chaplain who encourages patients to discuss their tattoos as a way of creating an emotional bond. Hospital ...