Petoskey News: Press Release – Harbor Hall Partners with NCS
The Board of Directors of Harbor Hall recently requested Northern Chaplain Services to provide Chaplain services and support to it’s residents.
Services and support will include: patient spiritual assessments and recommendations for spiritual growth, spiritual care lectures, and group spiritual care therapy.
For more information on Harbor Hall Substance Abuse Treatment Center, go to www.harborhall.com
Dr. John Grebe, PsyD, Director of Petoskey Behavioral Health (P.C.) “As a psychologist, I have always supported the idea of chaplaincy. However, it wasn’t until my father lay close to death following a recent surgery that I came to fully appreciate the vital role they play in providing care. I recall a particular point in the intensive care unit when the Chaplain tended to my family’s needs. So helpless to change events ourselves, we were adrift in the realization of pending loss when the Chaplain came to listen. The time, prayers, and caring that was offered buoyed us through the worst. Even as our fear eased with my father’s recovery, the Chaplain continued to be vigilant on our behalf. Later, with my spirits lifting, I once again saw the Chaplain, though this time beyond our situation, again communicating the love and care of the divine to another shocked family as life’s tug of war with death was being played out in its next chapter. Chaplains are dedicated colleagues standing in the gap, holding with/onto us in that time when our own strength is inadequate to sustain. God Bless them and their extraordinary ministry. We are fortunate to have them.”
http://www.healthcarechaplaincy.org/about-us/enewsletter/issue-20-november-2010.html
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Issue 17, September 2010
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Left to Right: Chaplain Dan Thompson, Rev. George Handzo, Chaplain Todd Thompson, Chaplain Linda Oostmeyer, Chaplain Larry Funk. Not pictured: Dr. Tim IsmondOn September 14-15, Northern Chaplain Services Board of Directors and Dr. Tim Ismond with Internal Medicine of Northern Michigan requested Board Certified Chaplain and Consultant Rev. George Handzo, from HealthCare Chaplaincy in New York City, to speak to the Clinical Medical Education Grand Rounds at Northern Michigan Regional Hospital.
His presentation was titled:
“The Partnership of Physicians and Chaplains: Why? How? When? Where?”
Read this article: “Mixing Healthcare with Spiritual Care” by Petoskey News Review
Three experts–the Rev. George Handzo, a chaplain with the HealthCare Chaplaincy of New York City; Dr. Andrew Newberg, a radiologist and psychiatrist at the University of Pennsylvania; and Dr. Richard Sloan, a psychiatrist at Columbia University–discuss the role that belief should play in science.
Modern medicine is good at staving off death with aggressive interventions – and bad at knowing when to focus, instead, on improving the days that terminal patients have left.
Read this article: Letting Go
On September 15th, 2010 the Board Certified Chaplain Rev. George F. Handzo will be speaking to physicians and other medical staff during Grand Rounds Clinical/Medical Education about the role of spiritual care for patients.
As a Board Certified Chaplain, Rev. Handzo is widely regarded as one of the foremost authorities in the field of professional healthcare chaplaincy. With over 25 years in directing Chaplaincy programs, he is leading the creation of practices and services which combine spiritual care with proven business benefits for healthcare institutions, their staff and their patients.
As Vice President for Pastoral Care Leadership and Practice at HealthCare Chaplaincy, Rev. Handzo directs the only consulting service devoted to the strategic assessment, planning and management of chaplaincy services. The Healthcare Chaplaincy employs best practices in strategic planning and clinical practice to maximize the effectiveness of an organization’s pastoral care and to align it with the institution’s overall objectives. Clients have included the U.S. Naval Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Mount Sinai Medical Center (New York), Hospital Corporation of America, St. Joseph’s Hospital & Medical Center (Phoenix), and the Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula (California). George also leads the management of chaplaincy services in fifteen healthcare institutions in the metropolitan New York City area.
Rev. Handzo has authored or co-authored over fifty book chapters and articles on the practice of pastoral care. He lectures widely at medical institutions and is frequently sought after as a speaker at industry-wide congresses such as the American College of Healthcare Executives.
Prior to his current position, George was for over twenty years the Director of Chaplaincy Services at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and is a past president of the Association of Professional Chaplains. He serves on the Distress Guidelines Panel of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network. The Rev. Handzo is a graduate of Princeton University and Yale University Divinity School. He is also certified as a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt.
Pastoral Care: An Underutilized HR Resource
PowerPoint presentation regarding the role_of_spirituality_in_health_illness by Christina M. Puchalski, MD, Director and Founder of George Washington Institute of Spirituality and Health.
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