Chaplains Installed

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The Rev. Alice Walsh was installed as a chaplain at Fairview Hospital, a Cleveland Clinic hospital, during a beautiful ceremony on October 27, 2011. Surrounded by family, friends and co-workers, the event was very special for all who attended.   Prior to Chaplain Alice’s installation, guests were treated to beautiful background music provided by her [...]

A Gold Medal Chaplain

Denise Brown, chaplain at the Filling Home in Napoleon, competed at the Masters World Swimming Championships in Goteburg, Sweden this summer. She won the 800 freestyle, placed 2nd in the 200 freestyle, 400 freestyle and open water swim, 4th in the 400 IM, and 6th in the 200 butterfly. Denise says she could not believe [...]

LCS Chaplain Presides at Post-Crash Wedding

LCS post-crash wedding

Chaplain Sarah Samson, MetroHealth Medical Center had the honor of presiding at the marriage of Cindy Alford and Rick Pringle on August 6th. Several local newspapers carried the story on August 7th. Alford and Pringle were patients at Metro following a motorcycle accident in 2009.

Thank You to Our Chaplains

Chaplains Kate Valentine and Cynthia Danals for serving as interim chaplains at Medina Hospital. Kate was with us from December 2009 until August. Cynthia joined Kate in late January 2010. Chaplain Robin Schreiber for providing interim coverage at Fairview Hospital from April to September 2010. Robin has now done four interims for LCS in the [...]

LCS Welcomes New Chaplain Tricia Gilbert

Chaplain Tricia Gilbert

The newest LCS chaplain is Tricia Gilbert who joined the Pastoral Care Department at Fairview Hospital as a staff chaplain on September 13. Tricia brings a variety of professional experience to her new ministry. She served as a pastor for a three point parish in rural Minnesota, a chaplain in the US Army in various [...]

LCS Welcomes New Chaplain Joseph Rinderknecht

Chaplain Joseph Rinderknecht

In the early 1980s Joseph Rinderknecht served on the Board of Lutheran Chaplaincy Service. Little did he know then that he would return to LCS in August of 2010 as the new Director of Spiritual Care at Medina Hospital. Joe served for 30 years as pastor at St. Andrew Lutheran Church, North Olmsted and the [...]

University Hospitals On-call Program

This July marks the second anniversary of the establishment of an on-call chaplain program at University Hospitals in Cleveland to provide access to pastoral care for nights, weekends, and holidays. UH asked Chaplain Harry Werner and Lutheran Chaplaincy Service to create the program based on best practices elsewhere, hire the chaplains, and oversee their work [...]

Lakewood and Fairview Merge Pastoral Care Departments

Wenger, Chaplain Charlie Terrell, Chaplain Ed Schwet and Chaplain Bill Combs

Change is in the air in the Pastoral Care Departments at Fairview and Lakewood Hospitals this year. After serving as Coordinator of Pastoral Care at Fairview Hospital for 11 years, Chaplain Charles Terrell resigned in early March to move to North Carolina. He is now the Director of Pastoral Care at Cape Fear Valley Health [...]

Chaplain Mulba Borsay Approved for APC Certification

Mulba Borsay

Chaplain Mulba Borsay was approved for board certification with the Association of Professional Chaplains in late January. His certification was recognized at the annual conference of the APC in April. In his 4 years as the Chaplain at Huron Hospital in East Cleveland, Borsay has become an integral member of the Palliative Care team and [...]

Chaplain Don Rice Called to Serve in Dover

After serving as the Chaplain at St. Luke Lutheran Community in North Canton for over 7 years, Chaplain Don Rice has been called to serve as Pastor of Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church in Dover, Ohio. Rice began his new call on May 16th and was installed on June 20th.

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