Religion And Medicine - Chaplains In Hospitals
Wednesday, June 18, 2008 - 10:29
in Health & Medicine
Between 54 percent and 64 percent of hospitals had chaplaincy services between 1980 and 2003, despite changes over the last fifteen years in national accreditation guidelines making the religious and spiritual care of hospitalized patients a right. This protection seems to have had no effect on the number of hospitals with chaplains and there was no systematic trend over this period. Interesting results: read more
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