Spiritual Services

Our chaplains provide support to patients, families, visitors, and staff across the Aspirus Health System. As clinically trained Spiritual Care Providers, we serve in many capacities beyond just spiritual or religious roles. We engage with our clients in their personal spirituality, beliefs, values, faith, culture, or religious practices. We are equipped to support people of all faiths, as well as those without any religious affiliation. In doing so, we help foster well-being, emotional, and spiritual growth, which are vital resources for personal healing.  

Chaplains are available at least part of the week, Monday to Friday. To arrange a consult, during the week call the switchboard on 715-847-2000 and ask for Spiritual Services in your location.

After hours and on weekends call the switchboard and ask for the House Supervisor. If you are a patient or a visitor at an Aspirus location, you may ask your nurse to page for the on-call or unit chaplain.

We also help healing in many other ways.

Here are some of the roles we have:

For instance, we: 

• Provide support in any emotional or existential crisis
• Listen to and respect your history, your journey, and what you are going through
• Provide discernment, additional perspectives, guidance, or direction
• Provide bereavement support and guidance
• Share and help resolve anger, stress, conflict, grief, fear, anxious or depressive thinking
• Assist with ethical or moral concerns
• Support life review and end of life decision making
• Support advance care planning processes, particularly advance directives

As well as:

• Provide spiritual blessings, communion, and other sacraments
• Share spiritual or religious prayers and/or devotional or scriptural readings
• Provide prayer supports, such as Bibles, Rosaries, Devotional Materials
• Liaise with external priests and pastors to provide religious sacraments in the hospital
• Help reconnection for individuals to their spirituality, faith, church, or God
• Liaise with external pastors to provide sacraments to patients external to the hospital

Are you experiencing any of the following?

We can help you work through:

• Sadness, loneliness
• Losses of many kinds
• Overwhelming feelings or difficulty coping with your health condition or personal situation
• The fear of losing who you are or your connection to the world around you

We are members of your health care team!

As part of your team, we:

• Regularly participate in daily rounds with your healthcare team
• Make individual rounds triaging and meeting with patients and families
• Participate in patient-care conferences
• Advocate for patients or families with their medical teams
• Chart on spiritual care interventions in the patient’s medical chart
• Develop and use spiritual assessment screening tools
• Participate in Ethics Committees and Institutional Review Boards