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Our Commitment to You — Compassion, Hope and Healing

Fox Chase Cancer Center's commitment to provide total patient care is a key element of our activities and services. All staff members share in the collaborative approach to patient care. Spiritual resources are provided for patients and families, as well as healthcare professionals and community clergy. Through their ministry, chaplains offer compassion, hope and a healing presence for you during the diagnosis and treatment of cancer.

Pastoral Care Available 24-hours a Day

Chaplains are on-call 24 hours a day in the event of a death or matter of urgency to provide spiritual and emotional support. They include a trained team of spiritual caregivers, consisting of clergy and lay persons of diverse interfaith traditions. Chaplains visit patients of all faiths on a regular basis. Our main objective is to enable you to enhance your own spiritual resources for healing and well-being.

Services We Provide

• Visiting inpatients upon request from a patient, family member or a referral from staff.
• Assisting with preparation of Living Will/Advance Directives [PDF]
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• Providing special holiday prayer services for patients, families and staff.
• A Quiet Room (chapel) for prayer and meditation.
• A Spiritual Resource Library [PDF] with musical and video selections.
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• Special spiritual needs for persons facing the end of life care from hospital's Palliative Care Services

All Faiths - All Religions

The Pastoral Care Department supports the work of its neighboring clergy by its membership in the Fox Chase Ministerium of Churches and its alliance with the Jewish Chaplaincy Service of Greater Philadelphia. The department also serves as a liaison between the hospital and all local interfaith clergy [PDF]. Contact will be made with a representative of any particular faith or religion you request.

The Pastoral Care Department consists of a full-time director, who is responsible for supervising all of the staff and volunteer chaplains.

Chaplains on staff represent the following faiths:

• Catholic
• Jewish
• Protestant

Inspirational Videos

The chaplaincy service also sponsors a diverse selection of inspirational videos [PDF] in the Spirituality category on the hospital TV Instant Healthline Educational Video-On-Demand system. These programs can be accessed from any of the patient's phones by simply dialing 8586 and following the voice prompts and menus.

For more information about Pastoral Care at Fox Chase Cancer Center, please call 215-728-2944.

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