Chapel/Chaplains
During your visit to Samaritan Hospital, we want to make sure
your spiritual and emotional needs are met in addition to your physical needs. We have a well-rounded team in place to
accommodate your requests for spiritual support.
 Samaritan
Hospital employs a part-time chaplain to be of service to patients,
their families, and to Samaritan employees. Samaritan Chaplain
Don Earlenbaugh is available to you Monday
through Friday, from 7 a.m. to 11 a.m. He can be reached through
Social Services at extension 2460.
During the remaining hours, volunteer chaplains are also available
through an on-call status program. If you would like the opportunity
to speak with a chaplain in our program, please tell your nurse.
They are available for patients as well as family members.
We welcome and encourage visits from your minister or other
friends of your church. Please feel free to notify the appropriate
individuals at your church of your admittance to Samaritan
Hospital, or you may have your nurse call them for you.
The Chapel is located on the newly remodeled Second
Floor, which was renovated with donor funds. For more information,
read the article below:
Samaritan Offers Sanctuary for Prayer and Meditation
On July 21, 2005, in a private event reception, Samaritan opened
their newly
designed and renovated Chapel, located on the Second Floor
near ICU and
Surgery. The new Chapel has a place for prayer and reflection,
and for
meditation on the lives and hopes of loved ones. Please consider
this your
place to "get away" and find your spiritual connection.
Samaritan is very
grateful to Jean Myers and her family for their monetary contribution
for
the renovation of the Chapel, and to The Samaritans Club—a
giving club of
The Samaritan Hospital Foundation—for their annual donation
this year
that went to the furnishings for the Chapel. This spiritual expansion
is just
one more way that Samaritan has "spread her wings."
Thoughts by Don Earlenbaugh, Samaritan Chaplain...
Is one place
holier than another? Probably not. Can we not speak to God
wherever we are? Certainly. Why, then, build a chapel? We
humans are
spiritual beings. A significant aspect of our health is spiritual.
A chapel
provides a place of quiet where we can step away from the
challenges and
demands of life and get in touch with the Eternal. I would
envision the
chapel as a place where patients, family, and staff can go,
alone or in a
group, to pray, to meditate, to reorient our thoughts. The
healing process
involves more than bodies. The new chapel will provide a
place for healing
for souls, as well. Please drop by at your convenience.
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Above: Dan Boggs, President and CEO of SRHS, stands with
Paul Myers,
Samaritan Hospital Foundation Board Chair;
Jay Myers, son of
Jean K. Myers who graciously donated the
funds for the renovation
of the
Chapel in memory of her husband Everett Myers; and Jay's
wife.
Picured below is Mr. Boggs, Dr. Phil Myers, son of Jean K. Myers and a
retired
surgeon and VP
of Medical Affairs at SRHS, Jay Myers, and Chaplain Don Earlenbaugh.
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