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Your Spiritual Well-Being
Interfaith Chaplains can provide spiritual care and assistance, sacramental ministries, and spiritual support 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Chaplains are available for Westwood Hospital, Mattel Children's Hospital, and the Neuropsychiatric Hospital. From 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., call the Spiritual Care Office at (310) 825-7484 to request a visit. After hours ask your nurse to page the On-Call Chaplain at pager # 91770 or contact the Page Operator at (310) 825-6301 and request that the On-Call Chaplain be paged. The Interfaith Chaplains can also contact a religious leader of a particular faith tradition at your request.
An interfaith Chapel/Meditation Room (Room 17-229) is available for private prayer and meditation 24 hours a day. It is located on the first floor of the hospital next to the Information Desk and near the Cafe Med.
The following religious services are available in the hospital and on campus:
- Interfaith Prayer Service: Sundays at 10:30 a.m. Chapel/Meditation Room
- Roman Catholic Mass: Sundays at Noon in Bel Air Room (Room 17-323)
- Muslim Prayers: Every Friday at 1 p.m. Kerckhoff Hall Grand Ballroom (UCLA University Campus) offered by Muslim Student Association at UCLA. Phone (310) 948-7226 for more information.
- Daily Muslim Prayers: Muslim Prayer Rugs are available in the hospital Chapel/Meditation Room in the Prayer Rug drawer for use for daily prayers
- Jewish Shabbat Service: Fridays at 4:30 p.m. in the Chapel/Meditation Room (Room 17-229).
Everyone Welcome
If you need spiritual care services for Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center, please call (310) 319-4740.
Photo: Chapel/Meditation Room
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