Chaplaincy Services

Chaplains at the North Bay Regional Health Centre are spiritual healthcare professionals. They care for the human spirit with compassion and respect. They respect cultural background, uniqueness and individuality. A Chaplain is professionally trained to accompany a person to explore life challenging issues and the search for meaning. A Chaplain is multi-faith sensitive to support whatever your personal spiritual path or your belief system involves.

Chaplaincy Services

• Provides spiritual and religious care to patients, families, and staff and supports a patient’s religious and spiritual values in relation to treatment.
• Coordinates religious and spiritual care coming in from the community from the diversity of representatives of different Faith Groups.
• Collaborates with palliative teams to offer grief and bereavement support during end-of-life care for patients and families.
• Provides space to explore meaning of illness, suffering and life transitions.
• Offers a spiritual perspective in ethical decision making.
• Lead and facilitate ceremonies, rites of passage, religious rituals, meditation and prayer.

The Spiritual Centre

The Spiritual Centre is available for patients, family, and staff for personal meditation, reflection and prayer 24 hours a day 7 days a week. It is located near the cafeteria at the West main entrance.

Religious Services

In the Spiritual Centre once a week there is a:

• Roman Catholic Mass
• Christian service

Roman Catholic Priest On-Call Update

Our local Roman Catholic Priests have updated their on-call schedule in order to be available 24/7 for those in need of the Sacrament of Healing for the Sick [commonly termed Last Rites]. Requests can be made by contacting Switchboard.

Where possible it is important to encourage patients and families to attempt to contact their parish priest. Where this is not possible, either because they do not belong to a parish, or time is of the essence, a call should be made to the On-Call Priest without delay.

We hope that it will be understood the priests lead worship throughout the week and have many commitments in their parishes and community. At times, they may not be able to respond immediately. We ask for patience and proper communication particularly when leaving a voicemail message [please indicate the unit the priest will be following up with].

-Your Chaplaincy Team