Integrating Virtual Spiritual Care Across the Cancer Care Continuum
Spiritual care for outpatients with cancer spans a wide and deeply personal journey—from testing and diagnosis through treatment, survivorship, and end of life. Yet many of these individuals spend little time within hospital walls, making connection and continuity of care a growing challenge. Virtual tools now offer chaplains new ways to meet care recipients where they are—both physically and spiritually.
This webinar will explore how Houston Methodist’s Neal Cancer Center developed and implemented an integrated virtual spiritual care program within its outpatient oncology clinics. Using the tools embedded in the EPIC electronic medical record (EMR) system, the program created ways to integrate spiritual care into the scheduling, referrals, documentation, and communication processes of the clinic and allows for ongoing connection with care recipients across the continuum of care.