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Catholic Health East Vice President Authors Article on the Future of Pastoral Care May 12, 2009  Philip Boyle Ph.D. Vice President for Ethics & Mission Newtown Square, Pa. – May 12, 2009 -- Philip Boyle, Ph.D., vice president, ethics and mission for Catholic Health East, authored an article for the May-June 2009 issue of Health Progress, a magazine published by the Catholic Health Association of the United States. The article focused on the future of pastoral care across Catholic Health East. Over the last year, spiritual care leaders from throughout CHE came together to develop a long range plan for pastoral care… resulting in a design based on shared accountabilities, including standards of excellence and the means to measure them. These plans correspond to CHE’s Vision 2017, a 10-year look at how and where care will be delivered in the future. The group recognized the need to adapt to new sites of care and new means of providing spiritual care. It was determined that the developing a spiritual care assessment that would follow patients across the continuum of care is a planning priority. To enhance the competencies of chaplains, CHE collaborated with 11 other Catholic health care systems nationwide in the development of graduate webinars on themes in pastoral and systematic theology and clinical ethics; CHE hosts these webinars on a monthly basis. “To meet the needs of our evolving health care ministry, chaplains are going to have to rethink how they do their work. I am delighted that the chaplains within CHE have recognized this challenge and are in the process of redesigning spiritual care assessments, plans of care, and metrics.” To view a copy on the article, click http://www.chausa.org/NR/rdonlyres/7D59117E-1AC0-4E5F-AECD-27D8784BF7FA/0/hp0905f.pdf Boyle works with system members to apply values-based decision making to clinical and organizational ethics decisions. Prior to joining CHE, Philip taught at St. Louis Medical School in the Department of Internal Medicine, served as the associate for Medical Ethics at the Hastings Center in New York, and worked as the chief operating officer and editor-in-chief for the Park Ridge Center for the Study of Health, Faith, and Ethics in Chicago. Philip received his doctorate in theology from St. Louis University and a master’s of divinity and a sacred license of theology from the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, DC. ###
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