Yuma Regional Medical Center Chaplains: emotional caretakers for all

At Yuma Regional Medical Center, chaplains are the core of patient and staff care. Chaplains are professionals that care for the spiritual and emotional needs of patients and their families.

All chaplains have a master’s degree in divinity or some other religious training.

YRMC’s oldest residency training is the residency postgraduate program that helps prepare chaplains.

Chaplains then complete three units of clinical pastoral education to begin the process of board certification for chaplaincy.

Chaplains walk alongside people wherever they are in their faith whether they have religious beliefs or not.

Cathleen Wolff, YRMC supervisor of spiritual care said, “Every human being is a spiritual being and so we care for that facet of humanity…and that looks different for every person. And so our goal in spiritual care is to walk alongside whatever your faith perspective or your non-faith perspective may be.”

Chaplains are here to provide spiritual care for everyone whether they be staff, patients, or a patient’s family.

“We learn a lot from our patients and our family members, and so we take our kind of lead from them in terms of what is important to them,” said Wolff.