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Spiritual Care = a team dedicated to serving people
Illness is one of the fault lines in our lives. Generally speaking, it is our bodies that require special treatment and care when we are ill. We often forget that our soul also needs to be treated with care during this time. It does us good when someone is there to listen and find healing words.
Spiritual Care – we are there for you!
We listen to you and take time to address what’s on your mind.
Spiritual welfare team: The pastoral care and visiting service staff receive continuous basic and advanced training and regular supervision.
Offers:
- Conversations at your bedside
- “Just talk” conversations – for patients, relatives and staff, without registration, on the first Tuesday of the month, 3–4 pm, in the red lounge
- Church services (usually Tuesdays, 4 pm, in the in-house chapel)
- Devotions at your bedside
- Holy Communion at your bedside or communion for the sick
- Rituals to give meaning and help deal with life’s challenges (anointings, blessings)
- Accompanying the farewell process and providing support for the grieving process
Target group:
Regardless of religious denomination, religion or ideology
- Patient
- Relatives
- Staff
Contact:
Directly via the team leader Rev. Mag. Barbara Heyse-Schaefer (barbaraschaefer05(at)gmail.com) or via the nursing staff on your ward.
You are also welcome to give reception your visit request; our staff can contact and arrange for a spiritual counselor from your religious community to visit.
Protestant pastoral care
Rev. Mag. Barbara Heyse-Schaefer
barbaraschaefer05(at)gmail.com
Catholic pastoral care
Anton Maderner
☏ +43 680 234 96 15
anton@maderner.net
Johanniter-Hilfsgemeinschaft visiting service
Herbert Beck
☏ +43 664 100 78 04
herbert.beck54@gmail.com
Jewish Community Vienna – Visiting Service
Care of Jewish patients
Jewish Community Vienna – Chief Rabbinate:
☏ +43 1 531 041 11
Contact: Eva and Dr. Willy Weisz, ☏ +43 681 20 42 75 00
Islamic pastoral care
Islamic religious community in Austria
☏ +43 660 949 41 60
☏ +43 699 19 74 66 33
☏ +43 660 117 26 35
spitalseelsorge@derislam.at
Orthodox and Oriental pastoral care
Orthodox:
☏ +43 664 343 72 82
Coptic:
☏ +43 676 744 23 57
Austrian Buddhist Religious Society
JIVAKA – Buddhist care for the sick in the ÖBR mobile hospice
☏ +43 650 523 38 03
info@hospiz.oebr.at
As a rule, church services are held on Tuesdays at 4 pm in the in-house chapel on the 1st basement floor (K 1 in the B wing). Step-free access is possible via the elevator at the base of the B ward. Our in-house service will be happy to accompany you to the chapel and pick you up again. Please let the nursing staff or reception (extension 690) know in good time.
We hold our services in ecumenical solidarity. This means: Everyone is welcome to join in the Word of God service with communion or the service according to the Protestant liturgy with an invitation to Holy Communion for all who are baptized. Members of the Catholic Word of God Celebration Leader Group, lectors from Johanniter-Hilfsgemeinschaft and Rev. Dr. Livia Wonnerth-Stiller take turns in the liturgy of the service. On days when church services are held, communion or Holy Communion is also celebrated at the patient's bedside. Please let us know if you would like to receive communion at your bedside!
Outside of church services, the chapel is also available during the day for your personal devotions.
Please refer to the notices in the building for the exact times of services.
Upon request, you can be collected for the service and taken back to your room. If you need to receive infusions but still wish to come to the service, please inform the nursing staff. They will be happy to accommodate you and try to plan the time of the infusion so that you are able to attend the service. We will also be glad to visit you if you are unable to attend.
“There is a time to be silent. There is a time to speak” (Eccl. 3v7)
With the opening of the Hall of Silence by Rev. Dr. Margit Leuthold on May 4, 2016, the Evangelisches Krankenhaus Vienna now offers such a place. “Here, everyone in the hospital should be able to find a moment of rest, pause for a while or even say goodbye in silence and in a dignified setting,” says Rev. Leuthold.
Superintendent curator Dr. Inge Troch praises the open yet discreet design of the room, which invites everyone to come and linger, regardless of their denomination, religion or beliefs. The old chapel on K1 in Evangelisches Krankenhaus was converted into a hall of silence with the professional support of the building services department. Evangelisches Krankenhaus thus places a holistic, individual emphasis on spirituality and spiritual care in the hospital.
This room is open to patients and staff at all times.