ABSTRACT
Today’s health care environment, with shorter hospital stays, more acutely ill patients, and an increasing emphasis on outpatient medicine, presents new challenges to spiritual caregivers. How do we assess and prioritize spiritual needs in this environment? How can our individual visions of ministry be expanded to complement one another? How can we collaborate as professionals and offer a continuum of spiritual care, in sickness and in health, to people of faith in our communities?
