Spiritual Care

Spiritual Care Office
3rd Floor Bond Wing, Room 3-016
416-864-5324
8:30 am to 4:30 pm

St. Michael’s spiritual care services include chaplains available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, a chapel and a Multi-Faith Meditation Room.

Chapel

3rd Floor Bond Wing, Room 3-006

The St. Michael’s chapel is available to everyone for prayer, reflection and services of worship. Mass times and other worship service times are posted on the chapel door.

Multi-Faith Meditation Room

3rd Floor Bond Wing, Room 3-010

The St. Michael’s Multi-Faith Meditation Room is available to all people for personal prayer, reflection or meditation. Prayer mats and sacred texts are available.

Spiritual care practitioners are health professionals working at the intersection of health and spirituality. We are certified professionals who use evidence, knowledge and training in spirituality and therapeutic practices to provide holistic care that improves patient experience, communication and clinical outcomes.

Trust, safety and sincerity are at the heart of spiritual care practice. Spiritual care practitioners aim to listen without judgment and ensure your spiritual needs, concerns and wishes are met in ways that work for you.

Patients and Residents

We are a source of comfort and connection for patients and residents and help to ensure their spiritual needs are at the heart of their care – regardless of their religious beliefs.

Families

We help families navigate the health care challenges, changes and crisis for loved ones by providing space for listening, reflection and by offering spiritual and/or pastoral support.

Unity Health Professionals and Staff

We also care for Unity Health professionals and other staff, providing timely spiritual care to those with whom we serve.

Community members

We seek to serve all members of the communities where we operate, ensuring their cultural, spiritual and religious traditions are welcomed, honoured, respected and practiced appropriately while receiving care or support in our facilities.

Spiritual Care creates space to consider questions, ideas and needs that are important to you, your health and your life – with or without religion.

Spiritual care practitioners can help you:

• Find meaning in times of illness, crisis and loss
• Identify inner resources for coping
• With end-of-life and grief support
• Through challenging decision-making processes
• Connect with your cultural, spiritual and/or religious leaders
• By facilitating ceremonies, rites of passage and cultural and/or religious rituals, including meditation and prayer

We believe that caring for a person’s spiritual needs requires personal connection, listening and learning about their spiritual concerns, and their desire for care and support. We listen deeply to people, without judgment, because a person’s spirituality, stories, beliefs, values and concerns are key to their healthcare.

We are open-minded and have a natural curiosity and interest in the thoughts, feelings and lives of those we serve, as well as the many diverse expressions of spirituality that people share.

By working together we ensure patients, residents and their loved ones have the spiritual support and care they need to help them through a lonely day in the hospital, process a difficult diagnosis, find solace at the end of life or to simply share a moment of hope and celebration.

As a health network fully affiliated with the University of Toronto, Spiritual Care offers Clinical Psycho-Spiritual Education (CPE) under the auspices of the Canadian Association for Spiritual Care (CASC). For more information, please contact spiritualcare@unityhealth.to.

Spiritual Care Office
416-285-3666 ext. 4048

At Providence, chaplains are available to help meet spiritual and religious care needs. There are chapels within both Providence Hospital and the Houses of Providence, available to worship, pray or spend time in quiet reflection.

Multi-Faith Room

2nd Floor B-Wing, Providence Hospital

This room is open around the clock for individual or small group worship and reflection.

Our Lady of Assumption Chapel

3rd Floor Providence Hospital

Everyone is welcome at Our Lady of Assumption Chapel to worship, pray or spend time in quiet reflection.
The following celebrations are held in the chapel:

• Weekly Mass on Tuesdays at 11 am
• Spring and fall memorial services
• Monthly Christian hymn sing and worship open to patients and families
• Christmas and Easter ecumenical worship for patients and families

Spiritual care practitioners are health professionals working at the intersection of health and spirituality. We are certified professionals who use evidence, knowledge and training in spirituality and therapeutic practices to provide holistic care that improves patient experience, communication and clinical outcomes.

Trust, safety and sincerity are at the heart of spiritual care practice. Spiritual care practitioners aim to listen without judgment and ensure your spiritual needs, concerns and wishes are met in ways that work for you.

Patients and Residents

We are a source of comfort and connection for patients and residents and help to ensure their spiritual needs are at the heart of their care – regardless of their religious beliefs.

Families

We help families navigate the health care challenges, changes and crisis for loved ones by providing space for listening, reflection and by offering spiritual and/or pastoral support.

Unity Health Professionals and Staff

We also care for Unity Health professionals and other staff, providing timely spiritual care to those with whom we serve.

Community members

We seek to serve all members of the communities where we operate, ensuring their cultural, spiritual and religious traditions are welcomed, honoured, respected and practiced appropriately while receiving care or support in our facilities.

Spiritual Care creates space to consider questions, ideas and needs that are important to you, your health and your life – with or without religion.

Spiritual care practitioners can help you:

• Find meaning in times of illness, crisis and loss
• Identify inner resources for coping
• With end-of-life and grief support
• Through challenging decision-making processes
• Connect with your cultural, spiritual and/or religious leaders
• By facilitating ceremonies, rites of passage and cultural and/or religious rituals, including meditation and prayer

We believe that caring for a person’s spiritual needs requires personal connection, listening and learning about their spiritual concerns, and their desire for care and support. We listen deeply to people, without judgment, because a person’s spirituality, stories, beliefs, values and concerns are key to their healthcare.

We are open-minded and have a natural curiosity and interest in the thoughts, feelings and lives of those we serve, as well as the many diverse expressions of spirituality that people share.

By working together we ensure patients, residents and their loved ones have the spiritual support and care they need to help them through a lonely day in the hospital, process a difficult diagnosis, find solace at the end of life or to simply share a moment of hope and celebration.

As a health network fully affiliated with the University of Toronto, Spiritual Care offers Clinical Psycho-Spiritual Education (CPE) under the auspices of the Canadian Association for Spiritual Care (CASC). For more information, please contact spiritualcare@unityhealth.to.