Your Stay at GVH
Spiritual and Ethical Concerns
Pastoral Care
At Grand View Hospital, pastoral care is provided 24 hours a day through our Chaplaincy Program. A volunteer in our Chaplaincy Program visits new patients each day to offer spiritual support. With your permission, one of our chaplains will notify a clergy person of your admission to the hospital should you indicate a religious affiliation. Requests for a visit by a chaplain can be directed through any hospital staff member. Area pastors or authorized church lay ministers with a proper hospital ID badge may visit their congregation members at any time.
Chapel
The Nelli Hoffecker Interfaith Memorial Chapel, located just outside the Intensive and Coronary Care Unit (ICCU), is always open for private meditation/prayer or the lighting of a votive candle.
Making Decisions Concerning Your Medical Care
The federal Patient Self-Determination Act of 1990 requires hospitals to inform patients about advance directives – a document that expresses your wishes concerning the extent of medical care that you would receive in the event that you were unable to personally express your wishes. Advance directives include living wills and durable medical power of attorney. When you are admitted to Grand View Hospital, we are required to ask you, as an adult patient, whether you have a living will or a designated durable medical power of attorney.We must document your response to this question in your medical record. Should you have either a living will or durable medical power of attorney, we will request a copy of the document and attach the copy to your chart.
Should you want more detailed information, please ask your nurse for our Fall Prevention brochure. Should you want more detailed information, please
ask your nurse for the brochure, Advance Directives in Pennsylvania or Lifesaving Options.
Ethics Committee
You or your family may need to make challenging decisions related to your care here at Grand View. In addition to our Pastoral Care Department and Patient Representative, the Grand View Ethics Committee is available to consult with you, your family members, physicians and staff members. The committee includes physicians, nurses, other staff and members of the community. For more information, contact our chaplain at extension 4970 or Patient Representative at extension 4976.
Organ and Tissue Donations
Anyone 18 years old or older and of sound mind may fill out a Uniform Donor Card to legally donate organs and tissue upon death in accordance with the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act. Grand View Hospital supports this law and urges you and your family to consider organ and tissue donations. For more information on becoming a donor, call the Gift of Life at 1-800-KIDNEY-1 or speak with the hospital chaplain at extension 4970.
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