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Our Mission is to provide exceptional quality, patient-centered care. Howard Regional Health System cares about our community as much as we care about our patients. Howard Regional is a not-for-profit hospital owned by the community for the benefit of the community. It is a regional acute care hospital system comprised of two hospitals on three campuses. Accredited by the Joint Commission, Howard Regional earns consistently high patient satisfaction ratings. The System provides a broad range of acute care and ancillary services. Our West Campus Specialty Hospital and the rehabilitation services rounds out our continuum of care. Acute care services include, but are not limited to, cardiology, behavioral health, emergency services, endocrinology, gastroenterology, general surgery, intensive care, neurology, obstetrics, medical and radiation oncology, ophthalmology, orthopedics, otolaryngology, pediatrics, podiatry, plastic surgery, rehabilitation, rheumatology, urology and vascular surgery. The System also provides various other services and facilities including ambulatory care, physical and respiratory therapy and women's imaging, diagnostic and wellness services among others. There is an onsite sport center that provides personal trainers for participants. Howard Regional's clinical pastoral education program is an active member of all multi-disciplinary teams. For example, student chaplains participate in team meetings of Behavioral Health Services. The Oncology Center located at our Main Campus hospital provides a comprehensive cancer program. It has recently earned a three-year reaccreditation with commendation from the American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer (CoC), a consortium of professional organizations dedicated to improving survival and quality of life for cancer patients. Howard Regional's is the only cancer program in Howard County to receive the accreditation. According to the CoC, only one in four cancer programs nationally achieve this accreditation, which is given only to those facilities that have voluntarily committed to providing the best in diagnosis and treatment of cancers. Fairmont Rehabilitation Center, which is bordered by our hospital campus, is the other major placement for CPE students in the summer and resident CPE programs. It is a geriatric and rehabilitation facility. The Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) program with its 35 years of history is also designed to support the student chaplains' learning through establishing and maintaining professional relationships with worship communities, seminaries and other agencies. Our Professional Consultation Committee (PCC) is made of a variety of professionals that represent the medicine, ethics, administration, chaplaincy and the parish. Clinical Pastoral Education Programs At Howard Regional, we offer three types of programs:
Nine-Month CPE Residency for Ministers and Seminarians
Extended CPE for Ministers and Laypersons
Summer CPE for Seminarians and Laypersons
Program Objectives & Methods Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) is a creative movement that prepares persons who engage in theological education for ministry. It has its roots in the efforts of pioneers such as Richard Cabot, a physician, Helen Flanders Dunbar, the first Medical Director of the Council for the Clinical Training of Theological Students in New York City, Anton Boisen, a minister. They sought to bring the theological students into supervised encounters with persons in crisis. Cabot's well known article, "A Plea for a Clinical Year in the Course of Theological Study," published in 1925, laid the foundation for Clinical Pastoral Education. Cabot emphasized learning from failure, "for success, though it increases the confidence which we all need for our next job, does not stimulate growth so much, and growth, I take it, is the only absolute need of a human soul" (Richard Cabot and Russell Dicks, The Art of Ministering to the Sick, p.15). Howard Regional's CPE Students learn about the human condition, their spiritual needs, and the care of souls through a holistic approach in ministry. Hence, the concept of learning from the "Living Human Documents" is central in our CPE program. It is an experienced- based, process-oriented, person-centered theological education. CPE at Howard offers you the opportunity to learn and discover some of the following:
Learn from our 2009 summer intern chaplains... "I have learned that loss is often painful. What people often need is not comfort, but company in the pain. They need to work through the pain instead of escaping it in order to truly heal. "
"No price can be put on the benefits the CPE program provides to HRHS. I originally came here in 1989 from a hospital that did not have a CPE program. Over the years I have witnessed our HRHS chaplains their spirituality, compassion, caring nature, and availability. Sometimes their quiet presence makes all the difference in a moment of critical decision making for our patient's families. They even know when it is appropriate to use the healing technique of touch in regards to the delivery of spiritual care. In the ICU in particular, they are valued for their input during our 10am Grand Rounds which is a multidisciplinary approach to patient care." Background of the Director of Spiritual Services and ACPE Supervisor , Rev. Yoke Lye Lim Kwong Yoke Lye is the first female American Malaysian Canadian Chinese certified ACPE supervisor in North America. She has written numerous articles and conducted workshops that stimulate awareness and confidence in exploring intercultural, interethnic spiritual care and supervision to promote wholeness, justice, compassion and inclusion in a pivotal time of change. She is one of the contributors of the book, Women Out of Order: Risking Change and Creating Care in a Multicultural World. Eds. Jeanne Stevenson-Moessner & Teresa Snorton. (MN: Augsburg Press, 2009). She will present a pre-conference workshop for the Association of American Pastoral Counselors (AAPC) in its 2010 Annual Conference. The theme of the conference is Embodying Justice: Pastoral Care and Counseling in an Intercultural World. CPE Application Procedure
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