Whether it’s welcoming a new life, preparing for a life to end or dealing with the anguish or uncertainty of injury, surgery or disease, patients and families often turn to hospital chaplains for help with their mind, body and spirit.
Despite a national decline in church attendance, or perhaps because of it, hospital chaplain programs are on the rise. More than 65 percent of hospitals in the U.S. had chaplains in 2016, up from 53 percent in 2002, according to the American Hospital Association.
Madison’s four main hospitals have had chaplains for years.
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