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The Pagan Community Is Preparing To Aid Members In Health Care Facilities

On March 8, I addressed the lack of trained Pagan clergy who could meet the needs of community members in health care facilities. “The Pagan Community Isn’t Ready to Aid Members In Health Care Facilities”. Motivated by this need, I networked with Pagan clergy, writers, counselors, and professors to start the Pagan Health Care Resource Team. Our goal is to create an open health resource for Pagans and helping professions regarding the needs of Pagan clients. We are still deciding what online format to use for the final public release. Currently we have a Google group. Once things get going again I’ll include more information about who is involved and how other Pagan professional health care providers and clergy can participate.

Since people are still commenting on the original post, I wanted to highlight their concerns and advice on the Staff of Asclepius front page.

About a decade ago, we were part of a project (which fell through) to take some information to local hospitals, including local people they could contact if asked. The project got started because of a friend’s life-threatening illness; the chaplain at her hospital asked if there was someone they could call, and when she explained her faith, the chaplains were unhappy that they had no one in their files to call for her.

Our goal was not necessarily people with training, but Priests & Priestesses willing to show up and learn what they needed to know on the fly. In the aftermath of that experience, I acquired a number of books written for Christian ministers on how to handle hospital situations. They were informative, but I think I need to go back and read again, with our own hospital experience in mind.

One of the only hospitals to get info from that failed project is actually my son’s “home” hospital. We had limited contact with the chaplains during our various stays, though they all knew him during his extended stay, largely because we knew that if we asked….my name was the name they’d find as someone to call for us. And that’s not terribly helpful, you know?

A Pagan friend is one of the volunteers that holds babies in the NICU there, and she talks with the chaplains regularly. She says they’re very nice, and at least open to discussion. Most at this private hospital appear to be Catholic nuns, and at least one of them is familiar with Reiki.

I’ve been contemplating that during our next stay (a planned 2-day admissing to the PICU in late April for trach removal) that maybe I’ll ask for one of the chaplains to come chat for a while, because I’d like to write about our experiences with them, but mostly we’ve brushed them off. Too much of our longest stay was a balancing act between following our faith and not pushing away staff that we needed to keep our son alive and it’s one of the few things about that situation that I wish we’d handled differently.

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