The Department of Spiritual Care at Harborview Medical Center

Spiritual Care Providers from the Department of Spiritual Care are available 24 hours a day at Harborview Medical Center and University of Washington Medical Center. 

Our spiritual care providers provide emotional and spiritual support to a diverse population of patients, family members, friends and staff regardless of their religious affiliation.

Department of Spiritual Care Mission Statement
The mission of the Department of Spiritual Care is to provide high quality, cross-culturally sensitive spiritual care to patients, families and staff of Harborview Medical Center and to provide a program of pastoral education to clergy, theological students, and qualified lay people in the hospital and the larger community which the Medical Center serves. We provide educational placement for our students to University of Washington Medical Center.  

We can serve by:

• Listening
• Offering support during times of crisis, loss, injury or illness
• Prayer
• Providing sacraments or rituals such as baptism, communion, blessing, anointing, viaticum
• Contacting local clergy of various faiths

How to contact a Spiritual Care Provider:

Harborview Medical Center:

• Call the hospital operator at (206) 744-3000 and have them page the on-call spiritual care provider

UW Medical Center:

• Call the spiritual care office at (206) 598-9174. Please leave a message if the voice mail answers.

Administrative offices: (206) 744-2757

Other resources we have available:

• Variety of reference materials
• List of local congregations
• Resources on many different faith traditions