{"id":485,"date":"2014-10-23T02:00:53","date_gmt":"2014-10-23T11:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=485"},"modified":"2014-10-23T02:00:53","modified_gmt":"2014-10-23T11:00:53","slug":"october-23-pastoral-care-week-continued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=485","title":{"rendered":"October 23 Pastoral Care Week Continued"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"shariff\" data-title=\"October 23 Pastoral Care Week Continued\" data-info-url=\"http:\/\/ct.de\/-2467514\" data-backend-url=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/wp-content\/plugins\/shariff-sharing\/backend\/index.php\" data-temp=\"\/tmp\" data-ttl=\"60\" data-service=\"gftr\" data-services='[\"googleplus\",\"facebook\",\"twitter\",\"reddit\",\"info\"]' data-image=\"\" data-url=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=485\" data-lang=\"en\" data-theme=\"colored\" data-orientation=\"horizontal\"><\/div><p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/hospice.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-486 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/hospice-300x108.jpg\" alt=\"hospice\" width=\"506\" height=\"182\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/hospice-300x108.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/hospice.jpg 374w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 506px) 100vw, 506px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The picture above represents the outlook of our hospice program.\u00a0 Each week the team meets to discuss our patients and their current needs and how we can best provide them.\u00a0 We also build connections between members of the team.\u00a0 This week for Pastoral Care Week the team had a Pastor Appreciation party for me as the pastor or chaplain to the program.\u00a0 In addition to a lovely card that everyone signed I was given an olive wood box with the image of the Last Supper carved in it.\u00a0 Inside the box was a gift card to one of my favorite restaurants and a book of humor.\u00a0 The humor book was really appropriate because I am a frequent contributor of humor items for our daily employee newsletter.\u00a0 We honor every clinical discipline during their designated week.\u00a0 This week was my turn to be the celebrated recipient.\u00a0 One of the best things about being on this team is that everyone cares for and respects all the other members of the team.\u00a0 Knowing you have the support of your colleagues is very empowering as we work with situations where people are nearing death and suffering from serious illness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The picture above represents the outlook of our hospice program.\u00a0 Each week the team meets to discuss our patients and their current needs and how we can best provide them.\u00a0 We also build connections between members of the team.\u00a0 This week for Pastoral Care Week the team had a Pastor Appreciation party for me &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=485\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">October 23 Pastoral Care Week Continued<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":487,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions\/487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}