Recognized representatives of local religious groups and congregations provide spiritual care to patients of Southeast Health and their significant others through participation in the Spiritual Care Clergy Volunteer Program. This program is open to ministers and laypersons of any religious heritages or traditions called to provide culturally appropriate spiritual care in the hospital setting.

Clergy volunteers are available to patients who request visits from a minister or spiritual caregiver. They also provide support upon request for families and community members who visit our Emergency Department. In these and other ways, clergy volunteers serve to ensure that Southeast Health patients and families always have access to spiritual support systems appropriate to their own beliefs and values. Every participant in our Clergy Volunteer Program receives orientation to Southeast Health and onsite training in basic spiritual assessment under the supervision of a board certified chaplain.

No one is born alone, and in the best of circumstances, no one dies alone. Yet from time to time terminally ill patients come to Southeast Health who do not have family or close friends to be with them as they near the end of life.

No One Dies Alone is a Spiritual Care volunteer program at Southeast Health that provides the reassuring presence of a volunteer companion to dying patients who would otherwise be alone. Companions come from every walk of life and receive orientation and training onsite in preparation for service.