Chaplain services | veterans affairs

SPIRITUAL AND RELIGIOUS SERVICES We are a healing and caring department for the Zablocki VA Health Care System. We provide a safe spaces and confidential care, where Veterans of all faith

traditions and world views are invited to find and restore a deepening sense of spiritual well-being. As chaplains, we are clinically trained and come from diverse faith backgrounds and

experiences. We believe that no one should have to journey through life alone, and know that there are times when we all need each other for connection, companionship, community and

counseling. We honor the full humanity of every Veteran. Therefore, our goal is to support you, as you are, no matter where you have been, what you might have been or are still going

through. CHAPLAIN SUPPORTIVE SPIRITUAL CARE PROGRAMS AND ACTIVITIES: * Spiritual assessment * Bereavement care for loss and grief * Suicide prevention and postvention care * Pre- and

post-surgical care * Comfort and counseling (individual and group) * End of life issues * Assistance with major medical and life decision-making * Hospice and palliative care * Military

sexual trauma * Moral injury * Post-traumatic stress * Sacramental ministry (communion, anointing of the sick, last rites and more) * Tele-chaplaincy * Whole health * Women Veterans * Risk

screening to identify factors that may affect wellness and recovery * Facilitate spiritual issues related to tissue and organ donation * Communication, care and support for caregivers *

Facilitate staff communication and team building * Conflict resolution among patients and family members, and staff * Referral to internal and external resources * Employee and family

support and counseling * Memorial services * Warrior to soulmate – relationship enrichment program RELIGIOUS SERVICES: * Baptism * Communion * Last rites * Other rites and rituals * Worship

* Religious and spiritual resources CHAPLAINS ARE MEMBERS OF THE PATIENT CARE CLINICAL TEAM: * Participate in medical rounds and patient care conferences * Participate in interdisciplinary

education and team meetings * Chart spiritual care interventions on patient’s medical records * Facilitate communication between care teams and patient family BENEFITS Research shows that

spiritually active patients experience or report: * Faster healing * Greater coping skills * Reduced pain * Better quality of life WORSHIP SERVICES Unity Chapel is open daily for prayer,

meditation and reflection. MILWAUKEE VA  WORSHIP SERVICES ROMAN CATHOLIC      Sunday Mass      8:30 a.m. in Unity Chapel      JEWISH      Tuesday, 10 a.m. in Unity Chapel PROTESTANT      

Sunday, 10 a.m. in Unity Chapel MUSLIM     Friday, 1 p.m. prayer in Unity Chapel BIBLE STUDY      Tuesday, 4:30 p.m. in Unity Chapel