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Your Spiritual Well-Being
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Interfaith Chaplains can provide spiritual care and assistance, sacramental ministries, and spiritual support 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Chaplains are available for Westwood Hospital, Mattel Children's Hospital, and the Neuropsychiatric Hospital. From 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., call the Spiritual Care Office at (310) 825-7484 to request a visit. After hours ask your nurse to page the On-Call Chaplain at pager # 91770 or contact the Page Operator at (310) 825-6301 and request that the On-Call Chaplain be paged. The Interfaith Chaplains can also contact a religious leader of a particular faith tradition at your request.
An interfaith Meditation Room (Room 1109) is available for private prayer and meditation 24 hours a day. It is located on the first floor of the hospital just inside the front entrance.
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Click above to watch an edited version of Where the Ocean Meets the Sky featuring Rabbi Pearl Barlev from UCLA. This video explores the annual ritual of Lantern Floating as an instrument in healing and as a unique approach to memorialize loved ones we have lost. Watch the full version at www.goliquidmedia.com
This video is also available in Windows Media at http://streaming.uclahealth.org/lanternceremony
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The following religious services are available in the hospital and on campus:
- Healing Prayer Service: Sundays at 10:30 a.m. in the first floor Meditation Room
- Roman Catholic Mass: Sundays at Noon in B Level Auditorium (B-130)
- Muslim Prayers: Every Friday at 1 p.m. Kerckhoff Hall Grand Ballroom (UCLA University Campus) offered by Muslim Student Association at UCLA. Phone (310) 948-7226 for more information
- Daily Muslim Prayers: Muslim Prayer Rugs are available in the hospital Meditation Room in the Prayer Rug basket for use for daily prayers
- Jewish Shabbat Service: Fridays at 4:30 p.m. in the Meditation Room (Room 1109)
Everyone Welcome
If you need spiritual care services for Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center and Orthopaedic Hospital, please call (310) 319-4740.
In the News
Dispensing emergency spiritual care (UCLA Today)
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Meditation Room at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical
Center - Photo by Benny Chan/Fotoworks
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Chapel/Meditation Room at Santa Monica UCLA
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One department at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center stands out for its unique emergency supplies: Muslim prayer rugs, recordings of Buddhist monks chanting, Christian Bibles and Jewish prayer shawls.
For patients struck by a serious illness or a deadly diagnosis, those supplies are just one way the Spiritual Care Department helps patients cope with a crisis. The chaplains offer company, spiritual guidance and religious materials to patients of every stripe, from the deeply observant to atheists in need of support, said the Rev. Sandra Yarlott, director of the Spiritual Care Department at the hospital.
"It's the most sacred work you could ever do," Yarlott said. (read full story)
Medical Center's Spiritual Care staff keeps faith alive (Daily Bruin)
At the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, a group of dedicated individuals of different faiths work together to take care of the spiritual needs of the patients.
Rabbi Pearl Barlev said working with patients, as well as hospital staff, is one of the most profound things she has done.
"It's a microcosm of how I might imagine a perfect world to be," Barlev said.
"Even though I'm working with people of varying religions, we're all working with a passion for goodness, comfort and humanity just inside the walls of the hospital."
The Spiritual Care Department has supported patients in their spiritual needs from a wide array of faiths, from Catholicism to Judaism, Islam to Buddhism. (read full story)
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