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Excellence in Spiritual Care

Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare is committed to providing holistic health care - care for your mind, body and spirit. Excellent spiritual care is an important part of your healing and well-being. We serve all people, those who follow a particular faith tradition and those who do not. We value each person's unique and sacred spirituality.

For over 125 years the Wheaton Franciscan and Felician Sisters have been providing health care in southeastern Wisconsin. Our shared mission of providing exceptional and compassionate healthcare service promotes the dignity and well-being of the people we serve.

As you enter the facilities of Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare, Spiritual Services wishes to extend our care and support for your well-being. Chaplains are available to accompany you as you journey toward healing and wholeness.

Ways We Can Assist You and Your Family:

• Caring presence and conversation
• Chapel and sacred space for quiet meditation
• Exploring sources of meaning and hope in the midst of a health crisis
• Grief support for change, death, loss and transition
• Helping you work through difficult decisions
• Honoring ethnic/cultural spiritual needs
• Inspirational resources such as Bibles, prayer books and cards
• Mass and other worship services
• Meditation and guided imagery
• Prayer for your well being
• Sacramental ministry: Holy Communion, Anointing of the Sick, Reconciliation
• Support for your individual religious and spiritual practices
• TV channel for reflection and meditation

Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare chaplains are committed to providing excellent spiritual care for all of our patients, residents and families.

Transforming

Spirituality enables one to reach beyond one's own self, to make connections with that which is beyond us, and guides our behaviors and thoughts toward a more meaningful existence.

Our hope is that our chapels and meditative spaces are spiritual sanctuaries for our patients, residents, family members and associates. They are holy places that encourage integration and wholeness. We invite you to make use of these meditative spaces as you continue your journey toward inner peace, reconciliation and healing.

Your Journey

Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare Spiritual Services offers help with a wide variety of situations and experiences:

• Discouragement and sadness
• Family issues
• Grief and loss
• Life changes as a result of illness
• Loneliness or isolation
• Moral or ethical conflicts
• Pain or suffering
• Questioning "Why, God?"
• Role change/identity crisis
• Stress
• Substance abuse

Signs and symptoms of spiritual distress may include feelings of:

• Anxiety
• Sadness
• Hopelessness
• Meaninglessness
• Powerlessness
• Fear
• Guilt
• Shame
• Doubt
• Anger
• Emptiness
• Loneliness
• Confusion
• Resentment
• Dread

Your Spirituality May Help You To Discover:

• Inner feelings of love, joy, gratitude, acceptance and courage
• Support from family and friends
• Connection to faith community
• Forgiveness and reconciliation
• Inner strength and peace
• Sense of self-worth
• Sources of hope and encouragement
• Wisdom from life's lessons

Advance Directives - information for your health care wishes Power of Attorney for Healthcare document and form. Frequently ask questions about Advance Directives for healthcare are also available.

Parish nurses serve ten local congregations and also provide valuable services to our patients.

Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care

United States Conference of Catholic Bishops/ERD, Fourth Edition

Espa–ol

Low Capellances apoyan su comodidad y reuperacion meientras se encuentra en Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare. Nosotros valorizamos la espiritualidad individual de cada persona.

Los Capellanes est‡n para asistirle a usted y a su familia en cualquiera de las siguientes formas:

Como presencia que escucha bondadosamente.

Apoy‡ndole con oraciones y Escrituras.

Para ayudarle a explorar inquietudes espirituales.

Para asistirle a preparar Voluntades por Adelantado.

Para contactar a su iglesia o asistirle a localizer un representante de su fe.

Para ayudar en el proceso de curaci—n con mœsica, meditaci—n o im‡genes guiadas.

Para ayudarle a explorar la esperanza y el prop—sito.

Para proveerle los sacramentos.

Para ayudarle a explorar decisiones dificiles desde un punto de vista de fe y valor.

Los capellanes forman parte del equipo de atenci—n mŽdica y est‡n a su disposici—n al marcar el 262.687.5359 o mediante el cuadro telef—nico marcando el 262.687.4011.

To request the services of a Chaplain, or for information on programs and services, please call: Milwaukee: (414) 447-3800; Racine: (262) 687-5359.