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Chaplain services

VA Indiana health care chaplains serve people of all faiths and denominations as well as patients and families looking for non-denominational support. They are here to listen and offer spiritual and emotional support as you struggle with tough questions and ethical decisions. 

If you are admitted to a VA hospital, you should be asked a screening question: “Are there religious practices or spiritual concerns you want the chaplain, your physician, and other health care team members to immediately know about?” If your answer “yes,” a Chaplain will meet with you. If you answer “no” or are just having a routine visit, you can ask to meet with a Chaplain at any time. It is always the Veteran's choice.

Spiritual and religious services

Our chaplains help patients and family members through outpatient treatment, hospital stays, and extended care. If needed, they will contact your personal clergy or spiritual care provider in the community. Our chaplains are clinical pastoral care specialists who provide religious and non-religious people with services* such as:

  • Baptisms
  • Bereavement (grief and loss) care
  • Comfort and counseling
  • Communion
  • Funerals
  • Weddings

*All services are subject to staffing considerations.

Worship services

People of all faiths and traditions are invited to attend:

  • Protestant worship: Sunday at 9:30 a.m. ET
  • Catholic Mass:
    • Sunday at 8:30 a.m. ET
    • Monday and Wednesday, at 12:00 p.m. ET

Benefits

Research shows that spiritually active patients experience or report:

  • Faster healing
  • Greater coping skills
  • Reduced pain
  • Better quality of life

Interfaith Chapel

Richard L. Roudebush VA Medical Center
Constitution Wing
Second floor
Map of Indiana campus
Hours:  Coming soon!

Your Chaplain Service Team

Our 3-Fold Responsibility to You

  1. To ensure that Veterans (both inpatients and outpatients) receive appropriate spiritual and pastoral care, as desired or requested by the Veteran;
  2. To ensure that all Veteran’s constitutional right to free exercise of religion is protected; and
  3. To protect Veterans from having religion imposed upon them.

As part of the VA health care team, Chaplains are here for you and your family regardless of your religious background or spiritual orientation. We provide the following activities in support of your religious freedoms.

  • Prayer, meditation and reading of holy texts
  • Worship and observance of holy days
  • Blessings and Sacraments to include the Anointing of the Sick
  • Memorial Services and Funerals
  • Holiday Observances

Appointments

Contact us to schedule, reschedule, or cancel your appointment

Phone:

317-988-4355

Referral required? No

Walk-ins accepted? Yes

Hours

Monday-0730-1700

Tuesday-0630-1830

Wednesday-0630-1830

Thursday-0630-1830

Friday-0730-1830

Saturday-1000-1830

Sunday-0630-1500

Page 317-310-8553 for Spiritual Care Emergencies.

Contact a Chaplain

If you have spiritual concerns that have not been addressed, or for more information, please contact the Chaplain Service Program Support Assistant:  317-988-4355. You may also inform any VA Medical Center staff member that you are in need of chaplain services and they will help you to reach a chaplain. 

Janice Green D.Min, BCC

Chief Chaplain

VA Indiana health care

Phone:

Email: janice.green2@va.gov