After over a year of preparations, volunteer recruitment and training, and logistical work, and thanks to a generous grant from UCSF Partners in Care, Spiritual Care Services is pleased to announce the beginning of a No One Dies Alone (NODA) program to serve imminently dying adult inpatients at Parnassus who are unbefriended or unaccompanied. NODA […]

Beginning on Monday, January 23rd, Spiritual Care Services is pleased to offer a time of Midday Mindfulness at the Parnassus campus.  Similar to what we already offer on weekdays at the Mission Bay campus, these sessions will be available on Monday and Thursday afternoons from 12 noon to 12:15 p.m. in the Meditation Room (Moffitt/Long […]

The chaplains of Spiritual Care Services recognize and affirm the many people in the UCSF community who are devoting themselves tirelessly to the cause of justice. In a variety of ways UCSF students, faculty, and staff are striving against the racism and other types of discrimination that undergird and shape institutions in the United States, […]

The Department of Spiritual Care Services is pleased to announce that we have been awarded a grant of $4,000 over two years as part of the Transforming Chaplaincy Project, which is sponsored by the John Templeton Foundation in collaboration with Rush University and Brandeis University. The grant is intended to assist us in developing and […]

The UCSF Office of Sustainability and Spiritual Care Services are teaming up to encourage people of all faiths to act in ways that are environmentally responsible, and act as good stewards of the Earth and the life that exists on it.  For an article about our department and how faith and ecological awareness interweave, please […]

We are pleased to announce that the Rev. Susan Conrad, manager of spiritual care services, recently co-authored an article entitled “Spiritual Care for Cancer Survivors” with Dr. Jamie Alexis Cohen, and it was published in Coping with Cancer magazine in July/August 2015.  You can read the article by going to this link: Spiritual Care for […]

In a prior blog post, we discussed UCSF’s research project on the Spiritual Assessment and Intervention Model (AIM) and its application to outpatient palliative care settings for patients with advanced cancer, which was funded by a grant from the HealthCare Chaplaincy Network and the John Templeton Foundation. We are very pleased to announce that this […]

On Monday, May 18th, 2015, at 12 noon in Room N-217 of the UCSF School of Nursing at the Parnassus Heights campus, the Department of Spiritual Care Services will host Thupten Jinpa, Ph.D., the long-time English translator of His Holiness the XIVth Dalai Lama, in conversation with David Bullard, Ph.D., clinical professor of medical psychology (psychiatry) at the […]

On February 1st, also known as Super Bowl Sunday, UCSF Medical Center opened its new Mission Bay campus for inpatients.  The 878K-square-foot facility includes outpatient clinics as well as three hospitals: UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital San Francisco, with 183 beds serving all pediatric specialties; UCSF Bakar Cancer Hospital, with 70 beds serving adult patients with […]

Congratulations to Cantor Rita Glassman, a 2013-2014 year-long CPE chaplain intern, and to the Rev. Alice Cabotaje, a Supervisory Candidate, whose poems were recently published in Synapse, the student newspaper at UCSF.  To read their poems, you can go to this URL: http://synapse.ucsf.edu/articles/2014/04/24/tabula-2014