Center for Spiritual Care Services
Hospital Chaplains and spiritual care volunteers offer spiritual care as part of the health care team.
Please contact the chaplains at 4-4687 from a hospital phone, or from outside 315 464-4687.
For emergencies, call the operator.
Reasons to call on us would be for:
- Spiritual encouragement
- Prayer
- Sacraments or religious rituals
- Pastoral support in times of stress
- Contact with your home congregation and clergy
- Spiritual literature or materials
- Family support
- Help in interpreting your spiritual needs to staff
Worship Services
Services are held in our Interfaith Chapel off the Upstate University Hospital lobby. Please see our worship schedule for times.
Intensive Prayer Circle
The members of the Spiritual Care Service's Intensive Prayer Circle are ready to cover you and your family with intercessory prayer throughout your stay at University Hospital.
If you have a prayer request please e-mail the Intensive Prayer Circle (intensiveprayercircle@gmail.com).
Silent Meditation Sessions
Spiritual Care Services and the Stress Reduction Program offer Silent Meditation Sessions Tuesday evenings from 5:30 pm until 6:15 pm. Silent Meditation Sessions meet in the Interfaith Chapel just behind University Hospital's Information Desk on the first floor. The format is a 15-minute guided sitting meditation followed by a 30-minute silent group sitting. No meditation experience is required. Chairs are provided, however you may bring cushions if you wish.
Silent Meditation Sessions are open to everyone. If you have any questions, please email Eva Nanno (nannoe@upstate.edu) or call her at 315-464-6052.
Spiritual Care Channel on TV
Channel 40 is our Spiritual Care Channel on the hospital’s patient television network. Join us from your bed if you are unable to visit the chapel in person.
Channel 50 is the Meditation Channel. Turn this on to experience beautiful scenery and soothing music. It’s great for relaxing!
A Second Set of Hands, offering practical and spiritual help for parents with hospitalized children—written by parents of hospitalized children—has been published by the Pediatric Spiritual Care Advisory Council of SUNY Upstate Medical University and University Hospital with the help of a grant from the Wilbert Foundation.
