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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.

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.

A picture of the plaque that explains the history and symbolism of the "Healing Spirit" statue bysculptor Georgette Sosin. It explains the meaning of the “healing spirit” and the symbolism behind the secular hospital’s large statue.

A picture of a smaller model of the "Healing Spirit" sculpture on the building's exterior. Next to the model is an explanatory plaque about the artwork.

I see a 21-year-old young woman, just, just married, just had a baby and discovered cancer after her birth with the baby, and she was dead within three months or, I don't remember it, it was quick, and I'm like: 'God, hey what’s this, what is this?'…

Chaplaincy, in those cases, is like, you know, a doctor and a surgeon. A surgeon is the one that comes in and makes those small slices and attends to that one piece that needs to be removed and it might be something huge that the person would love to…

We're learning so much in quantum physics these days about the power of energy and thought, and that we're all energy, that everything is energy, that when I think about it I think: What is prayer but intention and energy directed towards a positive…

I speak in a more interfaith language and more inclusive language, for sure and trying to be able to stand there in my own skin, but also be available to them. So I'm not gonna pray in the name of Jesus, but it's not a Jewish prayer to say in the…

Many people, especially after you have a colon cancer or some other, sometimes Crohn's disease, diseases that interfere with your large intestine, your bowels. This is a hospital, this is how we talk. And you may have to have something where all of…

And even us in the health care profession, we think when we say, 'Oh no, you can't eat that bacon, it's gonna make your blood pressure go up.' But you know, you live for having that bacon and eggs every Saturday morning. And it's the ritual around…