As contemplative spiritual practices find an increasing presence within American society, there is both an opportunity and a need to integrate practitioners into traditional medical settings to serve as spiritual caregivers and, more generally, to transform and integrate contemplative compassionate care into traditional medical settings.Working in tandem with each of our partner institutions, we create a Contemplative Care Program that meets these goals and needs.

Current Partners:

Beth Israel Medical Center's Department of Integrative Medicine

We are the first Buddhist organization to be contracted to provide chaplaincy within a mainstream hospital. We provide a Contemplative Care Program in which student chaplains visit with patients and staff under the supervision of our Senior Chaplain Supervisors.We also lead weekly group meditation for staff, patients and families as well as regularly speaking to the Beth Israel community an neighbors on the health benefits of meditation and on contemplative approaches to care. The head of Pastoral Care at Beth Israel has said that we provide the hospital with a "wonderful presence of intentional care."

Visiting Nurse Service Hospice

We provide our student chaplains for the patients and staff in its hospice residence, nursing homes and to its home care patients and families. The nurse manager of their hospice residence has said that our chaplains "transform the whole residence.When they are here, we all feel held."