Chaplain services
VA Nebraska-Western Iowa 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.
Benefits
Research shows that spiritually active patients experience or report:
- Faster healing
- Greater coping skills
- Reduced pain
- Better quality of life
Interfaith Chapel
Omaha VA Medical Center
Main building
First floor
Map of Omaha campus
Hours: Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. CT
Grand Island VA Medical Center
Main building, second floor
Map of Grand Island campus
Hours: Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. CT
Chaplain Service
Chaplain Service provides a variety of services to Veterans, visiting family members and staff:
- Relational Support
- Crisis Intervention
- Grief Support
- Facilitate Religious Needs – provide prayer, sacred/inspirational literature, devotional material, religious rites, and religious counsel
- Contribute to Interdisciplinary Care Plans – Ethics Consultation, Palliative Care, Substance Use Disorder Program, and available to provide consultative support throughout the health care system
- Ceremonial Functions – Memorial Services, Blessing of the Hands and provide invocations/benedictions for a variety of community and hospital functions
Omaha Chaplains: Call
- Chaplain offices are located inside the Chapel, which is found on the first floor, northeast corner of the Main Building (please follow the signs).
- Chief of Chaplain Service, ext. 20-3128
- Protestant Chaplain, ext. 20-5779
- Catholic Chaplain, ext. 20-3127
- Available 7 days a week–24 hours a day
- Normal Duty Hours, 8:00 am to 4:30 pm
- After normal duty hours, contact VA operator for assistance at
(press “0” as instructed)
- Worship Services
- Catholic Masses
Every day at 6:55 a.m. - Protestant Worship
Sundays at 9 a.m.
- Catholic Masses
Grand Island Chaplains:
- Chaplain Staff contact:
-2246 or contact operator - Worship Services
- Contact chaplain office for current schedule
All VA Community Based Outpatient Clinics (CBOCs)
- Contact the Chief of Chaplain Service
-3128) in Omaha for assistance, or the VA Operator after normal duty hours
Services Available to Inpatients and Outpatients
Chaplains are available by appointment and may be arranged by:
- Patient request
- Consults from staff
- Doctor/Nurse Referral