Offering Spiritual Support
A hospital stay can be stressful, especially when it involves a serious illness or life-altering event. Sanford Health offers spiritual care 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Our spiritual care team is here to support patients and their families by providing patient-centered spiritual care during challenging times.
Spiritual care staff members are health care professionals (chaplains) who provide inter-faith spiritual care. A chaplain will help you draw upon the resources and connections that you find meaningful and work to offer the support you need to cope with challenges. Chaplains do not evangelize, proselytize or provide care that belittles or disrespects another person’s faith, culture, ethnicity, race, sexuality, or gender identity or expression.
If you or your family are not part of a particular faith tradition, spirituality can still be an important part of your life. You can find meaning, explore life’s biggest questions and connect with something greater than yourself, whether that be God, a higher power, your family or a greater cause in your life.
Religion is a vital way that many people express their spirituality, but nature, reading, music, laughter and serving others are also expressions of spirituality that can help give life meaning and hope.
Sanford chaplains will work with people from all walks of life and all types of spirituality or faith. By connecting with patients where they are, we are “Here for all. Here for good.”
Faith Representatives
If you are a member of a church or faith community, we encourage you to reach out to your pastor, priest or faith leader so that they can be a part of your support team.
The Spiritual Care team can connect you with representatives from various religious groups who can provide prayer, rituals or sacraments specific to your faith tradition.
Clinical Pastoral Education
If you are interested in becoming a chaplain, Sanford Health is proud to offer ACPE Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) units, both in person at our Fargo hospitals and for anyone throughout Sanford Health via distance learning. Please contact Rev. Gina Harvey, ACPE, CE, at gina.harvey@sanfordhealth.org for more information.
If you already have had CPE and want to work at Sanford Health, please visit sanfordcareers.com to see our available openings.