Spiritual Care
Healing the Whole Person, Body, Mind and Spirit.
The chaplains at St. Peter’s Health Partners represent a wide array of religious, spiritual and cultural backgrounds. As a key part of your interdisciplinary healthcare team, they spend time with patients and their loved ones to provide spiritual support for people of all religions or no religion with compassion and understanding during your hospital stay.
Call a chaplain
- When a patient is anxious or fearful of surgery, therapy or a medical procedure.
- When patients and/or families need comfort and consolation.
- When a patient does not respond to medical treatment.
- When patients and/or families have major healthcare/treatment decisions to make.
- When a patient’s way of life must change following an illness.
- When a patient has a long-term or terminal illness.
- When a patient is actively dying.
- When a patient is admitted in a traumatic or emergency situation.
- When a patient has died.
- When colleagues and care providers are having difficulty with a particular case or circumstance.
Spiritual Care Staff Directory
Multiple faiths, religious, spiritual and cultural traditions are represented by the chaplains at St. Peter’s Health Partners. We can provide spiritual care for all beliefs and backgrounds, including those unaffiliated with a particular group or tradition.
Liturgical Schedules/Spiritual Care Practices
We offer several spiritual and religious services throughout St. Peter's Health Partners. Religious services take place in chapels across SPHP at various locations each week. All are broadcast on closed-circuit TV to patient rooms and other areas.
St. Peter's Hospital
Our Lady of Perpetual Help Chapel
Monday through Saturday: 12 Noon
Sunday: 12:00 PM
Note: All masses/prayer services are televised on channel 67, St. Peter's Hospital closed circuit TV.
Samaritan Hospital Campus
Tuesday and Thursday at 12:00 Noon. Broadcasted on channel 17.
Catholic Mass/ Prayer Services in Nursing Homes are limited due to COVID 19. When resumed the schedule will be as follows:
Tuesday: 10:30 AM | St. Peter's Nursing and Rehabilitation Center (Albany)
Wednesday: 10:30 AM | Our Lady of Mercy Life Center (Guilderland)
Wednesday: 3:30 PM Terrace Beverwyck (Krumkill)
Wednesday: 11:00 AM | Eddy Hawthorne Ridge (East Greenbush)
Thursday: 2:15 PM l Schuyler Ridge the Eddy, (Clifton Park)
Special Holy Day Celebrations are observed as resources allow. They include but are not limited to:
- Ash Wednesday (Ecumenical)
- Good Friday (Ecumenical)
- Easter (Roman Catholic)
- Christmas (Roman Catholic)
- Rosh Hashanah
- Yom Kippur
- Sukkot
- Channukah
- Passover
- Purim
- Shavuot
- Ramadan
- Iftar
- Roman Catholic Holy Days of Obligation
Spiritual Care Volunteers
Spiritual caregivers respect personal beliefs and are sensitive to individual differences and situations. They serve all, regardless of religious affiliation, as well as those with no affiliation.