Spiritual Care
Our mission is to identify and strengthen the emotional and spiritual health of each person we serve. Personal faith often plays a role in the coping with illness and recovery process.
UNC Health Johnston is committed to providing our patients, their families and other visitors with an environment in which they feel comfortable practicing their faith.
Chaplain Support
Chaplain Volunteers
Chaplain volunteers at UNC Health Johnston play an important help patients through difficult times, regardless of individual’s personal faith background or belief system.
Become Volunteer Chaplain
We have a chaplain or chaplain volunteer available at all times to serve the needs of patients and their families. A chaplain is trained to provide spiritual support to all individuals, regardless of their personal faith or belief system.
We have three clinically trained chaplains who serve in UNC Health Johnston Hospice and our hospitals in Clayton and Smithfield.
All volunteer chaplains are pastors or local clergy person who volunteer their time at UNC Health Johnston and receive special training from spiritual care services. All volunteers are ordained (or its equivalency) or have at least one unit of CPE.
Chaplains can assist patients, visitors or staff:
- Feeling fearful, upset or worried
- In need of counseling, comfort or non-judgmental listening
- Feeling sad or depressed and in need of hope
- Desiring religious or spiritual practices from their faith or belief system
- Need connection to clergy from their faith background
- In crisis or in need of crisis intervention
- In need of advocacy
- Desiring consultation on advance directives, end-of-life decisions, or ethical issues
Interfaith Chapel
The Interfaith Chapels are located on the first floor in Smithfield and the ground floor in Clayton. They are available for prayer and meditation at all times to persons of all faiths. Sacred texts from various faith traditions are provided for use in the chapel.
Spiritual Care Library
The Spiritual Care Library, located at our Smithfield campus, contains a variety of resources that may help patients, their support persons, and staff improve their spiritual wellness. Books, periodicals, CDs and DVDs are available for checkout.
The library is located on the 1st floor, on the hallway next to the Chapel.
Contact Us
Spiritual Care Services is open Monday – Friday from 8:30 a.m. till 5 p.m. Chaplains are on call at all other times. A chaplain visit can be requested by:
- Notifying your nurse
- Calling the switchboard (dial 0 from within the hospital or 919-934-8171
- Calling the Spiritual Care Office during operating hours at 919-209-3655
