Interfaith Support Services
To support patients, their family and friends during a stay at Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital, we have an interfaith chaplain on staff as well as chaplain assistants representing various faiths. To contact the hospital chaplain, please call (530) 274-6216, or for a chaplain’s assistant, please call (530) 274-6816.
Chaplains are available for all those:
- Seeking spiritual support
- Desiring prayer
- Needing sacramental ministry
- Welcoming new life
- Preparing for surgery
- Facing terminal illness
- Anticipating life changes
- Coping with illness or a new diagnosis
- Needing reconciliation within family
- Experiencing loneliness, emotional distress, grief, anger, fear, forgiveness issues (self or others).
Healing Prayer
Prayer for healing is offered every Thursday night from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. in the hospital's Chapel, located on the first floor, close to the main lobby. You may come alone, with someone, send someone to represent you or send us your name. We also encourage you to contact your religious or spiritual leader to visit and minister to you while you are in our hospital.
Hospital Chapel
We invite you to visit our chapel while staying at, or visiting a loved one, in the hospital. The chapel is located on the first floor close to the main lobby.
