Supporting the Healing Process

Spiritual support can play a key role in the healing process and can help patients and family members through challenges associated with illness or injury. Central DuPage Hospital (CDH) offers spiritual support that is respectful of each individual’s spirituality, religious beliefs, privacy and dignity.

Why Spiritual Care in Healthcare?

There are many reasons a patient, family or healthcare professional might turn to spiritual care during illness or hospitalization. Some common reasons include: unexpected or discouraging diagnosis, death and dying, grief, questioning the meaning and purpose of an illness or injury, and moral or ethical questions. . Some people turn to the Hospital's Department of Spiritual Care Resources for counseling and support related to health and well-being. 

The reasons are personal. The support is easily accessible.

Our Services

Central DuPage Hospital offers an array of spiritual services that reflect the diversity of our patients and families. Spiritual care is highly personalized to meet each individual’s needs and desires.

Our spiritual care services may include:

• Individualized assessment of spiritual needs and resources to meet those needs
• Spiritual intervention, such as support, counseling, prayer or intervention in times of crisis
• Sacramental ministry including Anointing of the Sick and daily communion in the patient's room
• Notification to patient's congregation when an individual is admitted to Central DuPage Hospital
• Integration of services with community clergy
• Consultation regarding ethical decisions
• Group support for patients and families
• Training and education of hospital staff in spiritual care

The Team

The Spiritual Care includes: 

• A chaplain is on-site or on-call 24 hours of every day at the hospital. Chaplains minister to people of any faith, as needed.
• Community clergy may come to CDH to visit with patients and family members, whenever requested.
• Priests assigned by the local Catholic diocese provide sacramental ministry to Catholic individuals.
• Volunteers Ministers of Care distribute communion each day to patients who request it.

Call for Spiritual Support

Spiritual support is available for patients hospitalized overnight at Central DuPage Hospital, as well as those receiving care on an outpatient basis or home-based care. Family members also can call for spiritual support.

For non-emergency situations, please call the Chaplain’s office at (630) 933-6624, extension 1. (From inside Central DuPage Hospital, dial 3-6624.)

When urgent support is needed, call the hospital operator at (630) 933-1600 and ask to page the chaplain on-call. (From inside Central DuPage Hospital, dial 0.)