Spiritual care
We recognize that a hospital stay can be emotionally challenging, and attending to spiritual well-being is an essential part of healing. Our spiritual care services offer comfort, guidance, and support—grounded in compassion, integrity, and a commitment to excellence through service, advocacy, education, and outreach.
Chaplains
Atlantic Health chaplains foster spiritual wholeness and are here to provide one-on-one conversation, or listen to you and your loved ones with compassion and understanding. They make no assumptions about your personal convictions or life orientations. We believe there is a spiritual as well as physical benefit from engaging in a listening and supportive presence.
Our chaplains respect, understand, and help you to uncover strengths and hopes, while giving you the freedom to share with confidence, trust and comfort. We help patients, visitors and staff with challenges and emotions, such as:
- anxiety
- family dilemmas
- depression, loneliness
- searching for meaning, wholeness and peace
- disappointment
- spiritual and emotional questions
- questions of faith
- frustration, anger
- difficult decisions
- need for prayer
- delivering sacraments, such as Anointing of the Sick
Chaplains are here to listen with compassion and understanding. They help sort through feelings and concerns that surface during a hospital stay and address fears, disappointing diagnoses, decisions, stress and unresolved feelings.
Whatever one is feeling, a chaplain can be present to listen to concerns. Chaplains support patients, families, loved ones and staff through emotional and spiritual journeys with complete confidentiality.
Spiritual health program
Through this program, we provide compassionate, faith-inclusive care tailored to you, whether you follow a specific religious tradition or seek a deeper connection through mindfulness, nature, or personal reflection.
Support for Jewish Patients
Rabbis are available through CentraState’s Spiritual Care Department. Please call the office at 732-294-2744.
Shabbat:
- Entry on Shabbat: To enter the Medical Center on Shabbat, please proceed to the Emergency Department entrance. A blue line indicates the area where the electronic doors will be activated. A staff member will direct you to your destination.
- Navigating through the hospital: A Shabbat elevator is located at the north elevators. A stairwell near the north elevators is also accessible to every floor.
- Shabbat boxes: Shabbat boxes containing LED candles, grape juice, a challah plate and cover, and a lovely artificial flower in a small vase. Shabbat boxes are in the kosher pantry in the hallway to the right of the North elevators
- Chapel: The local Shabbos Orthodox Minyan is located about a mile from the medical center at 351 Stillwells Corner Road, Freehold, near the corner of Schanck Road. Directions: Proceed east on Route 537 to Stillwells Corner Road. Make a right and continue 2 blocks. The house is opposite the Freehold Municipal Building. Visit www.chabadwmc.com for times.
- Shabbat accommodations: Shabbat or Yom Tov hospitality is offered by the Fromm family (732-616-2900) and Rabbi and Mrs. Bernstein (732-294-0297). Please call them directly to confirm availability.