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Accessing your Congregational Census
As a service to area clergy, Sparrow Health System has provided a list of your congregation members who
are in the hospital on our clergy access site. If you are interested in using this service, please contact us at 517.364.2707 for more information.
Visiting Your People in the Hospital
The Department of Pastoral Care staff knows that you have a unique relationship with your
congregation members. You share a past. You share a future. And you probably share a
large percentage of your beliefs. We want to support your ministry to your congregation
members. When we become aware that a patient has his or her own clergy person, the
chaplain's role shifts from being primary spiritual caregiver to being secondary.
Chaplains are here to be a kind of back-up to your care. If your congregation member
needs care and, for one reason or another, cannot contact you, we will stand in and give
support until that happens. In emergency situations, chaplains are either already in the
hospital building or automatically called in. We will minister in the situation until you
can arrive. And, as always, once you are here, we will offer whatever assistance you might
want, supporting you in your ministry.
Please let us know when you are visiting a congregation member. You do this by signing in at the front
information desk at the Sparrow campus. We enter this data in the patient's chart. This indicates to the treatment team that the
patient is receiving spiritual support.
Hospital Visitation Helps
Ministry in our congregations provides a variety of opportunities for service. Depending
on our gifts, training and life experience, some of us are more comfortable making hospital
calls than others. We hope the following information will help you feel more equipped and
confident in your ministry when that ministry brings you to the hospital.
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