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Water Reed Army Medical CenterChapelsThursday, Jan. 25, 2007
Pastoral Care
The Department of Ministry and Pastoral Care at Walter Reed provides religious and spiritual support 24 hours a day, seven days a week, through assigned ward chaplains and on-call staff, for all faith groups and individuals. The department offers religious services for Roman Catholic, Protestant, Jewish and Islamic faiths. Services of other faiths are available in the local community. Chaplains coordinate their ministry with interdisciplinary teams that support patients, their families and staff members. They provide counseling, prayer, sacraments, rites, ordinances, religious literature, and pastoral visits with patients, family members and staff. Walter Reed has two chapels. The larger of the two is Memorial Chapel, which is at the intersection of Dahlia and 14th Streets on the main installation. The Hospital Chapel is on the third floor of Bldg. 2 (main hospital). Stained glass windows from the original hospital chapel are on display in the corridor. Services are conducted daily. In addition, a small prayer room adjacent to the chapel is open 24 hours a day. The Clinical Pastoral Education program is a yearlong, clinically based course of study for chaplain residents from the Army and Air Force. The program provides intense clinical training in using pastoral-care techniques in a hospital setting. The CPE Center is located in Bldg. 41. How to contact a chaplain: For assistance during duty hours, call (202) 782-6305 or visit the chaplains’ offices on the third floor of Bldg. 2, Area 3C. After duty hours, call the administrative officer of the day at (202) 782-7309. Religious Services Memorial Chapel:
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