Samuel S. Email & Phone Number

Richmond, Virginia, United States

Charlottesville, Virginia, United States

Harrisonburg-Staunton-Waynesboro Area

• Assessed the care needs of patients and families as they began their hospice care.• Developed care plans tailored to the unique spiritual and emotional needs of patients and their family members.• Offered spiritual guidance and direction for diverse religious, cultural, and socio-economic backgrounds.• Coordinated care with a multi-disciplinary team, providing holistic care to patients and families.• Offered bereavement support to bereft family members after the patient’s death, including scheduled phone and in-person visits.• Provided pastoral presence to staff as they draw meaning from their work in care of terminally ill patients.

• Served as the chaplain in a level 1 trauma center including caring for the patients, family, and staff of the Medical Intensive Care Unit, General Medicine, Gerontology and the outpatient ALS clinic, providing quality patient care to nearly 20% of the hospital census. • Provided bereavement care for patients, families, and staff. • Collaborated with the palliative care team for the spiritual and emotional care needs of palliative, end-of-life, and Hospice patients and their families.• Coordinated care for the Inpatient hospice pilot program for the Chaplaincy department.• Served as the only chaplain in the hospital during 24-hour on-call, providing patient, family, and staff care, religious services and patient support groups, and trauma-one crises responses as needed.• Developed and led interfaith services for hospital patients, visitors, and staff • Developed and led spirituality group for psychiatric patients, where we explored faith practices as it relates to mental health and well being • Supported the Chaplaincy Department’s wellness initiative by creating poetry and guided readings to use during the initiative.• Led didactics for residents on research-based best practices for patient care methods.• Led discussions with my resident cohort on pastoral care theories including educational, psychological, and palliative research.• Contributed to an ongoing study on spiritual distress authored by a staff chaplain of UVA’s Chaplaincy department.