A Note for You
Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center
Spiritual Care Department
A Chaplain is available
for your Spiritual Care needs
• To visit all patients
• To listen
• To pray, at your request
• To share in your faith struggles
• To assist you in seeking inner peace and strength
• To help answer your spiritual questions
• To bring you a Bible, sacred texts, or holy writings
from specific faith traditions
• To assist you in contacting religious leaders
from your faith tradition
• To help meet your specific faith or spiritual needs
To contact a Chaplain:
Call the Spiritual Care Department
In the hospital
Outside the hospital
Extension 57484
(310) 825-7484
Ask your nurse to contact a Chaplain.
For after-hour emergencies or urgent requests, ask your
nurse to page the on-call Chaplain.
Spiritual Care Department
Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center
10833 LeConte Avenue, 12-217 CHS
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1733
www.uclahealth.org/spiritualcare
UCLA Health System is dedicated
to excellence in patient care, including
Scheduled Services
meeting the spiritual needs of our
Tuesday, 5:30 – 7:00 p.m.
Buddhist Dharma Talk and Meditation
University Catholic Center
633 Gayley Avenue (behind hospital)
patients and their families.
Spiritual Care services include
• Interfaith Meditation Room
Open 24 hours daily — located in Room 1109
on the first floor of Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical
Center by the main entrance
• Regular visits week days from an interfaith
Chaplain assigned to your Nursing Unit
• Visits from an interfaith on-call Chaplain for
emergencies and urgent requests 24/7
• An interdisciplinary healthcare team that includes
a Chaplain
• Bibles, sacred texts and holy writings from
varied faith traditions
• Literature for special spiritual care needs
• Grief and crisis support
• Liaison with local faith communities to meet your
specific needs
For Christian Communion,
Baptisms and Anointing
• Anointing with oil
• Baptisms are performed on an emergency basis
• Communion is available upon request
• Roman Catholic Anointing of the Sick and Reconciliation
are provided upon request and priest availability
Jewish items available on request
Friday, 1:10 – 1:30 p.m.
Jummah (Islamic Friday Prayer)
Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center
Meditation Room — first floor
Friday, 4:30 – 5:00 p.m.
Jewish Shabbat Service (Egalitarian)
Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center
Meditation Room — first floor
Sunday, 10:30 – 11:00 a.m.
A Time of Healing Prayers
Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center
Meditation Room — first floor
• Shabbat boxes
(electric candles, challah, and grape juice as available)
Sunday, Noon – 12:30 p.m.
Roman Catholic Mass
Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center
B level Auditorium — B130
• Call to check availability for: Shofar blowing for
Rosh Hashanah, Lulav and Etrog for Sukkot,
Menorah for Channukah, Jewish sacred texts
Special Holy Day Celebrations
• Kosher menu from dietician
(all heated items are pre-frozen and double wrapped)
Muslim services available
• Friday prayers at 1:10 p.m. in Meditation Room — first floor
• Muslim volunteer and Chaplain to visit when available
• Prayer rugs for use in Meditation Room
Ash Wednesday (Ecumenical), Good Friday
(Ecumenical), Easter (Roman Catholic),
Christmas (Roman Catholic), Rosh Hashanah,
Yom Kippur, Sukkot, Channukah, Passover,
Purim, Shavuot, Ramadan, Iftar,
Roman Catholic Holy Days of Obligation