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From its historic beginnings, the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania has a proud heritage of education and service, and pastoral care has always been an important part of its clinical healing mission. We invite you to follow any of the links below to find out more about the Department of Pastoral Care and Education. Also, see a summary of recent department-related news and activities.

Hospital Services
CPE: Clinical Pastoral Education
Research & Staff Education (--includes Diversity Resources)
Announcements & Events (--includes the Interest Group)
Publications & Articles about Pastoral Care
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SPECIAL NOTICES:

Our sixteenth annual Spirituality Research Symposium, "Taking Care: Countering Stress and Burnout among Professional Care Givers" will be held on Tuesday, June 18, 2013 in the Perelman Center for Advanced Medicne. For details, see our Symposium page.
Recent articles about the Department include: "When We Lose Part of Our World" (re: the January 2013 Memorial Service for Trauma Victims) in HUPDate, "The Spirit of Caring" in the Penn Gazette, "Reporter's Notebook: On-Call with a Hospital Chaplain" in the Daily Pennsylvanian, and "A Celebration of Spiritual Support" and "Gospelrama Lights Up Our Hearts" in HUPDate.

To contact the Department, e-mail chaplain@uphs.upenn.edu or call 215-662-2591 or write to Pastoral Care, HUP Dulles 1st Floor, 3400 Spruce St., Philadelphia PA 19104.

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