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Anton Boisen, credited with the invention of the hospital chaplain, was himself chaplain at Elgin State Hospital near Chicago in the middle of the 1900s.

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Rev. Anton Boisen, a central figure in the development of Clinical Pastoral Education, pioneered the first CPE program at Worcester State Hospital in Massachusetts in 1925.