Goals

Health Management Home Office Chaplain to Travel to Each HMA City to Provide Training and Inspiration:

• To Enhance Hospital Visitation for Local Clergy
• To Train Church Lay Leaders to Visit for Their Church
• To Train Hospital Volunteer Chaplains
• To Annually Provide Continuing Education for Volunteer Chaplains
• To Set up Policies with Hospitals to Meet Joint Commission’s Standard for Spiritual Assessment
• To Show How Spiritual Care Improves Patient Satisfaction Scores, Better Medical Outcomes and Shorter Lengths of Stay
• To train hospital staff (nurses, etc.) how to meet patient’s spiritual needs in 30-second encounters and/or refer to a chaplain
• To Hire a Staff Chaplain
• To Build Bridges Connecting Places of Worship with the Hospital –to train church members to assist in prompt patient discharge and aftercare for the patient

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Health Management Chaplaincy

The Staff Chaplains and Volunteer Chaplains of Health Management are from many denominations and faiths. They are known in their communities and are trained to serve our HMA patients and staff with Spiritual Care. They do not push their personal faith or try to take the place of a patient’s local minister.  The goal is always to assess and meet a patient’s spiritual preference.  A main ministry is simply being there for people (called the ‘ministry of presence”)

Chaplains assist the medical and hospital staff in many situations by providing:  (From Standards of Practice for Professional Chaplains in Acute Care Setting)

• Standard 1, Assessment: The chaplain gathers and evaluates relevant data pertinent to the patient’s situation and/or bio-psycho-social-spiritual/religious health.
• Standard 2, Delivery of Care: The chaplain develops and implements a plan of care to promote patient well-being and continuity of care.
• Standard 3, Documentation of Care: The chaplain enters information into the patient’s medical record that is relevant to the patient’s medical, psycho-social, and spiritual/religious goals of care.
• Standard 4, Teamwork and Collaboration: The chaplain collaborates with the organization’s interdisciplinary care team.
• Standard 5, Ethical Practice: The chaplain adheres to the Common Code of Ethics, which guides decision making and professional behavior.
• Standard 6, Confidentiality: The chaplain respects the confidentiality of information from all sources, including the patient, medical record, other team members, and family members in accordance with federal and state laws, regulations, and rules.
• Standard 7, Respect for Diversity: The chaplain models and collaborates with the organization and its interdisciplinary team in respecting and providing culturally competent patient-centered care

Chaplains may also offer these practical services:

• offer to call the patient’s minister or place of worship
• work with Case Management in discharge planning
• pastoral care during the dying process or at death (grief counseling);
• pastoral crisis intervention (i.e.:  trauma, emergencies or a Code Blue);
• ministry during Withdrawal of Life Support
• orchestration and prayer at Hospital functions
• Funerals and Weddings for patients, employees and their family members

This endeavor to meet patients’ holistic needs will produce better Patient Satisfaction Scores, better medical outcomes and shorter patient hospital stays.  In essence, the positive presence of a staff chaplain can pay its own way, proving to be good for the patient, the hospital, and the staff.

Welcome!

Hi, I’m Larry Pope.  It is my honor to serve as the Health Management Home Office Chaplain.

It is my vision to see each of our Health Management hospitals staffed with a Professional Staff Chaplain to consistently serve the spiritual needs of our patients and their families, as well as our staff.  We are also recruiting and training Volunteer Chaplains to minister alongside the Staff Chaplain to meet the needs of each hospital.  I am proud of HMA and it’s leadership that they encourage and support Spiritual Care – Kelly’s Letter on Spiritual Care.  The Joint Commission has also mandated that each hospital do a spiritual assessment on each patient.  With all this backing, the patients and the hospitals will be the recipients of quality health care.

It is my privilege to support you in your ministry. My leadership style is not that of a boss but that of a mentor, coach, confidant, encourager, and friend.

We hope to use the web as a means to learn from each other by pooling our strengths and resources together.

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Job Opportunities — Hiring a Staff Chaplain for Each Hospital

It is the belief of Health Management Associates, Inc. that a Staff Chaplain is needed to reach our Patient Satisfaction goals and Joint Commission goals.

Education and Credentials for a Hospital Chaplain

Staff Chaplain Tasks

Recruiting and Hiring a Chaplain

Chaplain Job Description

APPLICATION – Staff Chaplain

List of Hospitals within Health Management Associates, Inc. within 15 States

For a list of Hospital Chaplain Job Opportunities contact Rev. Larry Pope, Director of Chaplaincy, Health Management Associates, Inc.

Email: larry.pope@hma.com

For Other Non-Hospital Chaplain Career Opportunities